The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-12-02
,4THER TOM BURKE ON THE LATE
BISHOP OF KERRY.

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r4T8ER TOM BURKE ON THE LATE !
BISHOP OF KERRY.
He GREAT WORKS BE ACCOMPLISHED FOR
81 RELIGION AND EDUCATION. |
At the Month's Mind of the late DR.. Moriarty, |
i the Cathedral of Killarney, Father Burke |
reached the panesyric, from which we take |
As following extracts:
The first three years of his Episcopate he |
eent in Tralee, an example to priest ana peo-
Ia of untiring labor and brundless charity.
snring those frst years he began the building
Z. that city Of the beautiful church OF st.
|bhn. For the last twenty years he was bishop
a Kerry. OF that twenty years EpieooPste
&e great Bishop and true servant OF God has
ready given an aosonns oefGIe tne sn Gseaa 40 sLlr
4 We can see what tale he had to tell. The
oostIe, writing to his beloved SON Titus, tells
sS that 50 bishop must be without crime as
Isls steward of God-not proud; not subject
s anger not given TO wine; no striker, nor
e4Sedy OF filthy luore, but given to hospitality,
zSntle, sober. just, holy, confident, em bracing
At faithful Word whioh 10 according to 400,
ne, that he may be able to e1hort in sound
ctrine, and to convince the gainsayers; = and
Timothy he ssys. Moreover. he must have
rood testimony from them that are without,
s. the devil;" and in both places he says
shat the bishop must be the husband of but
ne wife," Now, although this last word of
he Apostle had plain and obvious meaning
la the first ages of the Church, it had also q
higher and deeper sense in the mind and mouth
q the great Apostle. That one wife means
he Church of God, the See to which the
4 the spouse of Jesus Christ, for says the Apos.
De (EPhisionas 5, Y. 23l, For as the husoand
4 head of the wife Christ is head Of the
hurch. He is the saviour of his body. There
.s're, as the Church is subjeot TO Christ so also
ak the wives be to their husbands in oil things.
4Shsbsuds love your wives as Christ also
SEed the Church and delivered Himself up for
se iayer of water in the world of life, that
might present it to Himself q glorious
burch, not having spot or wrinkle or any
Dh thing, but that it should be holy and
sthout bIemish. So also ought men love
eir wives as their own bodies He that
gsth his wife loveth himself. For no man
+ er hated his own flesh, but nourisbeth and
serisheth it, az elso Christ doeth the Church" ;"
Ioh being the relations of Christ with his
hurch, il follows that to be admitted to these
ystic espousals of holy love, devotion, and
nre of the Church of God, is the very highest
nd most honorable form of divine grace, and
his is the episcopate, the last complement and
nal perfection of the Christian priesthood.
therefore does the apostle demand In such
pre chosen ones the blsmeiess lie OF per
scted sapctity and the many virtues of which
he have just heard. The Bishop must be the
3hurch's champion and defender, her true
night, her faithful and ever loving spouse.
u
hom we lament from the day when the
huroh of God, girding him with the cinOture
authority, said to him =
NJ Knight, my love, my Knight Of ,sS as5vSI, en-.
maiden, round the maiden, bind my belt.
intS On thee king
Far in the spiritual city." And as she spake
% Ihro' s him 'S and made him hers, and laid her mind
on him.
How fully he realized the grandeur of his
- H. nw,onr tnsav
M his own words. In oonseorating the beau
n new church of Kenmore, he said Z" have
Jy one earthly love, and that is the Church
Kerry. Our generated most pas aodec
erefore have cause to rejoice in the in
Dased beauty of my bride"
And how truly his action as bishop illus
ted these noble words. He found his bride
ntiful. indeed, in the beauty of faith, hops
love. But. call the beauty of the kings
ghter was from within" and his first loving
honght was to clothe her with external state
ness and grandeur. Accordingly, in unior
Oh devoted clergy and generous laity, hi
to work at once on tfie decoration OF thi!
pat and noble cathedral. In the diocese al
ge he found the temples of God, nowhere
rthy of their divine purposes, and in soms
ces only rude thatchsd houses, the veries
thlehems in their lowliness. Under his zeal
hands and guiding intelligence Swenty-fonl
eely parish churches have arisen in the
Bese, beautiful IN design and execution anC
ply furnished with every thing necessary
fitting the splendor of the Choroh's liturgy
the awful majesty of the Divine Presence
addition to churches built, nearly every
Der church in the diocese was enlarged anc
SorRted.
Bot we'll did the wise and enlightened
hop know that the divine mysteries OF MI
religion and the ceremonial which sur
ads them demand "a reasonable service,
en- enlightened as we'll as an intellectua
lie. HIS next care, therefore, was for th'
Ation of his people, and to this great caus
- acvoted all the energies of his devouIini
eL Schools were established even in th
otest DISTRICTS. The work of education wa
ery where vigorously pushed on. The zsa
the clergy in rendering this great worl
My eficacious was stimulated by the cor
snt admonition, the rigorous ordinances
q the upfailiug example of the great prelat
nself But with wise forethought, alGhong
Cepting aud using every help to the eduol
pn of his people, the Bishop would nevc
rmit the control and investment of tb
hools to pass out of Catholic hands, we