The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-22
ANNIVERSARY RITES.
Fifteenth
of the Dedication of St.
PatriCk's Church.
CANON MOYNluAN'o ELnQUENCE.
Many Visiting elergymen and a
Large Number Of WOrshippers
Listen 10 the Venerable
Priests Words.

The fifteenth anniversary of the dedi-
cation of st. Patrick's Church was ceie-
brated yesterday with elaborate cere-
monies. which were participated in by
crowds of dc Iout worshippers. The high
altar with its beds of choice flowers. over
which innumerabls wax candles shed
their soft light. was an object of beauty.
A solemn high mass was celebrated i'll
the morning. The Rev. j. IL. Stanton,
Father Sheehan, OF St. Patrick's, the
Deacon, u the Rev. ]. j. Flanagan. of
Seton Hall, Sub-Deacon. At the con-
clusion of the mass the Very Rev. Canon
Moynihan. of the diocese of Peoria, ILL.,,
who has been chosen to preach the ser
mon for each successive celebration of
the dedication, occupied the pulpit.
THE VENERABLE PREACHER.
This venerable priest WAC has spent
forty-six years in the church, has lost
none of the old-timc vigor land pristine
eloquence which once made his lame
honored in the Crescent City, where the
early years of his ministry were fruitfully
spent. His text Was from St. Luke, chap
ter xiv, "a certain man made 4 great
supper. aud invited many The great
banquet of the Assyriau King Assuerus
served as an introduction to tue body of
t e discourse, the Catholic doctrine of the
Holy Eucharist.
Tie figures of the Old Testament fore
shadowing the great sacrifice of the new
Law were anaivZed with exhaustive de-
tail. The Paschal Lamb, the MANN in
the wilderness, and before these, the
sacrifices of Meichisedech aud Abraham
prepared the minds of the chosen people
of God for the great completion of all
these types and figures.
The promise OF the true Mamma, "the
living Bread, which came down from
Heaven" and the tulIllment of this
promise on the solemn occasion of the
Last Supper, formed the subject of the
highest flight of the venerable preachers
~eloquence. e.itr
There is no doubt that when Canon
Movnfhan celebrates his golden jubilee,
the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination.
four years hence. when his fellow priests,
led by his bishop. the Right Rev. John
Lancaster SDalding, meet to honor this
patriarch Of the observation-disclosures is no
u that this venerable priest will still
be honored for his mastery e~loquence
and his high position in pulpit oratory.
VISITING CLERGYMEN IN ATTENDANCE.
The sermon was ate ntively listened to
by the large congregation. which was
deeply impressed with the preachers
eloquent remarks. In the chancel sat
Right Rev. M%onsignor Seton, Dean
McNuIty, Of Paterson; the Rev. Father
CorrigaD. of ST. Mary's, Heboken: the
Rev. Father Killeen. of Bergen Point,
and the Rev. Fathers Murray and Fitz-
gerald.
The celebration ended with an impress
s1ve vespers service In the evening. at
which the Rev. j. J. Boylan of Irvingson
was the ceiebrant. The appropriate
music which was rendered during the
day by the quartette of the church:-Mrs.
Nolan, soprano; Mrs. Cross, alto; Mr..
Donovan, tenor, d MI. Croker, bass,
was under the direction of Mrs. j. j.
Quinn. rpanist of the chnrch