The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-03

/ vices. The old cotton cloth was the
best protection we had and the snow
came through 1t and the rain came
! through 1t and yet we knelt upon the
earth. We sat upon the old barrels
| covered with lime andwe broke through
the sides of the barrels, and we were a
part of a great parish within easy
reach of us and yet we began as did
| the pioneers, oftentimes upon the very
edge of the great forest.
But we then and there laid the
foundations of the Sacred Heart par
ish. We then and there bound our
selves one to another with the love that
any people and pastor may we'll be
proud to own We then and there be-
gan the success which today is recog-
nized upon every side. Therefore my
people, with you, l have struggled and
| with you l have succeeded. l had an
aim and purpose in all that l did. 1t
was to uplift the people. 1t was to
ennoble the people, it was to make the
people proud of themselves, proud o.
their church, proud of their city, proud
of their citizenship and honored mem
bers of the great church of Cod
What were our difficulties now that
we look back upon them-mere passing
| clouds. Today our church is a pride
to your households, your parish is an
honor and to God be the glory for it
ALL"
THE years that I have spent with
you were years of labor but 1 was sent
to labor. My duty was to work and If
in the efforts among you I have sue
| ceeded In laying solid foundations 1 am
certain that the future more than the
present will tell Of success. The chill
dren told us of the love of the pastor
! for the little ones but is not the mis-
sion of the pastor first to the little
ones. Did not the great pastor love to
gather around him the little ones and
place his hands upon their heads, to
bless their young lives, for in them
were the possibilities of the future men
and women, and the pleasantest days
passed by me in the Sacred Heart were
as I walked among her children of the
people.
1.-THE care for the young men Of the
parish always demanded my closest
attention, the success in all the move
ments for reform was but an answer
from the peoples heart,a correspondent
with what they felt to be best. And If
We have enobled our citizenship by
striving to drive from our homes the
great enemy of all that is good the
vices that tended to destroy our man
hood then again have l met a respon-
sibility on the part of the people, on
the part of the youth of our parish and
! 81 MY dtdl pCOpltS tic yOeLiS nave DGGi
spent, years of labor and years Of
+ love.
I'VE have tried our best to make our
religion known because you and I have
gloried in our religion. We have felt
that the foundation stone of our citi-
Zenship was in our religion, that the
better men and women we were the
better men and women we would be as
citizens and the morality of Christ
/ uhioh II y1oiGCfnf1 O o fn
preach to you was preached to you as
a foundation stone, the very soul of all
| civic and moral life.
MY years among you were years of
success, thanks be to God and thanks
be to you. No man sent to preach the
| gospel of Christ ever had more loving
hearts to met initiative, to meet his
effort. What mattered it to me, the
priest of God sent to the people, not
to the rich, not the intellectual ones
of life, but to the people, to those
whose blood is rare and not putrid
blood, or as O'Reily said, 1.-THE blood
of the people is red, their hearts are
true and it is to the people that the
message of God is sent Neither race
nor color nor lines of distinction, to
the human heart is the gospel to be
preached"
mo matter how lowly the heart, no
| bleiANCI hOW IAOlll llellluGhs no llldlltl
how soiled the garment, the honest
loving heart is that which the gospel
seeks and to you my people, one with
me in blood of race and one with me
in a common love Of our American
citizenship, one with me in the devo-
ton to all that Christ stands for, a
gospel was preached to hearts that
loved it and the pastors work was an
easy one Indeed 10 man ever had more
| 1nxrira hoo l,a Il
loyal people, no man ever preached
the gospel to more willing ears and
you made my burden light and you les
sened my responsibilities and you are
the reward of all my labor. God has
blessed you and God has blest me.
Tonight welcome has been said to
me, the welcome of love. Tonight a
certain strain of farewell comes with
love but no. force it back it is not
farewell, but it is as the French EAU
| ReVoir," to see you again. Farewell
never comes between hearts that love.
Farewells are only for the dying and
the dead. The living heart that loves
knows onlyl tomorrow when meeting
again, renews again affections claim
upon il.
"A tie is severed between oyu and
me. 1t is the tie official that binds us
as pastor and people. AS the bishop
Sfilu ytSltIudys II was llOl llC NllebN Sut
the tie it was the pontiff who called me,
unworthy though l be to the episcopate
and I no longer will call you my par
lishioners but I will call you my people
and you will call me your priest To
you, no matter what dignities may
come to me / am FIR. Conaty, and l
want you to call me such. Sweetest
name that man can speak to man, the
sweetest name the priest can know
and oh, what a blessing when 20 years
have passed between priest and people
when the summons calls him to other
fields of labor, to feel that one heart
beats for all and that one heart says
Father you have our love" Life is
worth living to gain that one cheering
word the word of love from a faithful
people.
Bishop Conaty briefly reviewed his
connection with Sacred Heart Church
In closing he said;
May he who yesterday succeeded
me In the official relations with you
as pastor find you as already he has
found you but may he find in the fu-
ture that same love and that same
devotion to all that Sacred Heart
stands for and I am satisfied that his
crown will be a crown of roses and not
of thorns and the love of the people
will be continued to him who succeed
ed their first love"
At the close bishop Conaty's adj
dress. the vast ing knelt and re-
ceived his blessing. Rev. B. S. Conaty
was the last speaker.
The reception closed with the sing
ing Of holy God, We Praise Thy
Name" Miss Anna Foley was piano
accompanist.
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