The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-12
REQUIESCAT In PACE.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE SPIRIT
UAL REST OF REV. q. MOUNTAIN,
sorr0wfuI Practitioners Fiji the Church
Rev. Father Raymond Omciated and
bishop. QuinIan EuIogIzed the De-


Yesterday morning. at 10 O'Clock. there was
| celebrated solemn high mass of requiem al
| the Church of SIS. Peter and Paul for the re-
pose of the soul of Very Rev. Father Cornelius
Moynihan, late pastor ana founder of S.
Peter and Pau's Church. The church was
filled with an immense concourse of those who
during life had made 1t q duty to revere and
love the deceased and who now had assembled
to pray for him II 1t can be thought that prayers
should be said for one who had trod In the
| footsteps Of the saints. Rather ask of him TO
implore Gods blessing upon those whom he
had taught during life. by This teachings, OK
hortatons. and spotless career, to gain eternal
happiness.
The mass was celebrated coraBt episcopo.
Bishop Quinlan of Mobile being present Very
Rev. Father Raymond, Vicar General, offlca-
ted. assisted by Deacon Z. Heslin and Rev. M.
Sheehan, sub-deacon. In the sanctuary were
upwards Of thirty priests. representing the
clergy OF this city. Bishop Quinlan delivered
the funeral sermon, which was replete with
beautiful SMILES and touching alloeutions to
the deceased father. He chose for text,
Labor while 1t is day. for night eometh when
no man worketh."
He showed by the labors Of the day, which Is
life. that the deceased during the day had
labored, that now he was In the night time with
the shadow of death upon him, when no man
can labor. We, by cur sufIragas can stand at
the brink OF the m ysterious tomb and reach our
hands by the communion of saints to the soul
that had labored during the day, but that now.
consoling Ia our faith. We do not presume that
the soul OF any man Is pure enough, at death.
to enter into wedlock with infinite purity.
tremble we do not despair, or think that any
Soul Is con9emed forever TO the fires Of
bell, for. divine truth teaches US that there
enough for the gaze Of the God Of purity Of that that
as Jerusalem with lantern. Justice i,v 'G and
Mercy make a league: Justice would condemn,
but Mercy and the. redemption of the blood OF
deemed soul, washed in the blood Of the Lamb
before the face of the Eternal Father. who. II
mat soul be not yet pure enough for Its i'm
hnds place for 1t to expiate the slight stains
which retard its entrance to heaven. We. by
our prayers. our aims and the holy sacrifice,
can hold communion with the dead can aid
-hem in their dark prison. and that soul so
aided. free from the chains that bound 1t In
will be mindful Of the love of the living. and
will plead before the Throne of Mercy for those
who loved him on earth and whom he loves in
Heaven will be offered for his flock who are
battling On earth. and many weary soul In the
1ght here below will gain new strength. for, the
combat by his tnterces sion In heaven: for love
Is stronger than death and it exists beyond the
jomb.
The above rapid sketch Of the eloquent
Bishops address gives but a faint idea Of the
glowing and Soul-thriiling words that fell from
ais lips like dew from the star-lit heavens in
midsummer Whenever he spoke OF Father
Moynihan, one could observe the looks of re-
gret and generation that shone Ia the dimmed
a7yyes Of his regretful parishioners. Truly.
Father Cornelius Moyniban was a grand and
ender. loving shepherd. for not one In the vast
but whispered his name as child
whispers the name of It's father.