The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-23
AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The Months Mind of Father Prender-
CAST, the Late Pastor.

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The Months Mind of Father Prender-
CAST, the Late Pastor
| Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, the
| months mind of the Rev. Father Prem
| dergast was celebrated at the Church
of the Sacred Heart. Requiem mass fo1
| the repose of his soul was celebrated.
| the congregation receiving Holy Com
| mfnion in a body. Rev. Father Price
was the celebrant and Rev. Father Dem
men, of Wilmington, was assistant.
| The remarks of Father Price made
Il deep impression on the congregation.
He spoke feelingly of the late pastor.
At the conclusion of the services the
following resolutions Of respect and af-
lection were adopted:
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, 1t has pleased our Divine
Father in His inscrutable designs to
remove from us our beloved pastor, the
late Rev James H. Prendergast, and
Whereas, We desire to give some
public token of the great esteem and
love in which he was held by us, now
therefore be it unanimously resolved
by us, the members of the Holy Catho-
lie church, in the city of Raleigh in
mass meeting assembled:
First, That in the loss of Father
Prendergast, we have received a blow
which has rent our hearts and made
us inconsolable. The work of a Cath
Ollie priest and pastor and his relations
with his people are not like those of
other men. In him we recognize the
mouthpiece of the truths of salvation,
brought to us from Chris, through His
infallible church. In him we recognize
the dispenser of the mysteries OF
grace-him who has been appointed by
Christ to convey to us through the sac
raments His Divine life and nourish it
in our souls, to offer up for our SINS
the sacrifice of the mass which is
daily continuance of the sacrifice of
the cross, to apply the healing balm of
the infallible teaching and comforting
of the Catholic church to our con-
science in the confessional In him
we recognize the true pastor, appoint
ed by Christ to feed us with His heav-
emily doctrine and care for our souls
from the cradle to the grave. Hence
it follows that no relations can be CON
ceived which are higher or holier or
StIohSNl vi LIOlC AdotfuS llldH tIilSC
which bind a Catholic pastor and his
people. How nobly, unselfshly, and
sacrificingly Father Prendergast inter
wove these relations about us, our
hearts bleedingly testify. OF no in
considerable talent, especially in
preaching and the reading Of human
nature, of a disposition generous and
self-sacrifcing to a fault, of a cordial,
deeply sympathetic and winning ma
ture he knitted our hearts to himself
and made his ministry on us mex
pressibly more effective thereby. Hence
this deplorable sundering these ties be-
tween us, and rendered the more acute
ly painful in that his young life So full
of promise was SO suddenly plucked in
the bud, has afflicted us beyond the
power of speech.
Secondly, be it resolved that this ex-
preston Of our esteem and love- made
quate and uniting as it is, shall be
published in the daily papers of Raleigh
and of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and
that copy be transmitted to his
mother and family with our deepest
sympathy for their unspeakable loss,
as one also to the Rtto Rev. Bishop
of this yicariate. {iF
Signed on the part of the congraga-
ton at the months mind of Father
Prendergast this 22d day Of February
of the year of our Lord, eighteen hun
dred and ninety-nine.
JOHN r. FERRALI.,
JAMES MAGLENN,
NJ. b. BARBEE,
WIN. A. LINHHAN,
JOSEPH F'ERRALL, ~
j. GELSHENER,
@ Committee.