Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-12
PR|OREsS GOES
To HER REWARD
SIMPLE FUNERAL OF MOTHER
INCARNATION
Hundreds View the Bier In Good
Shepherd Convent-Bishop Con-
aty's Eloquent Words for
the Departed

''well DONE good and faithful SER
want, enter thou into the joys of thy
Lord"
But bit of black silkenl crepe and
close drawn shades at the convent OF
the Good Shepherd yesterday told that
the angel of death had carried away a
Good Shepherd nun who had devoted
her life to bringing the wayward to
womanly virtue.
Upstairs, in the chapel which she
herself had planned and tended, lay the
still, white form of Mother Incarnation,
the beloved prioress.
One by one, nuns and people, went by
the bier which seemed more like a
shrine. and knelt for a moment of
silent prayer beside the loved form
which in life ad been as one long and
sweet rosary. with the incense of love
and purity ever ascending to the Good
Shepherd whom she had served as a
cloistered nun for thirty-three years.
Bishop Conaty chanted pontifcal
requiem mass, with Rt. Rev. Mgr.
Harnett as assistant priest: DIR. J. S.
Glass, C. NJ, and Rev. Raphael Fuhr,
o. F. NJ, deacons of honor; Revs. ]. j.
Clifford and c. Molony, deacon and
sub-deacon Of the mass, respectively,
and Rev. ]. A. Reardon, master Of cere-
monies.
Priests Sing Requiem
The requiem was sung by a choir of
priests under the direction of Rev. T.
r. Fahey, as follows: Revs. G.. Seuber,
P. H. Mcdonald, ]. J. Cody and D. w.
J. Murphy. Frank Carr presided at
the organ.
Bishop Conaty, robed in somber
black, eulogized the dead nun, paying
her memory a high tribute. During the
bishops address sobs could be heard
throughout the chapel, and the girls of
the convent, who were present robed
in black with white wells over their
heads, showed their grief at the pass
ing of one who had been true and
Iender mother.
Bishop Conaty said:
"There is a sadness and joy mingled
under this roof today; sadness that the
beloved mother should have been called
away, and gladness that her pilgrimage
is over-her sorrows at an end. Death
has its sad and joyful circumstances
and both are mingled today. 1t seems
hard for us who have known the life
to realize that she will be with us no
more. In this spot sacred to her labors
she has laid down her burden and
taken up her crown.
Hears Gods Call
1--WE have known something of her
life and lived it, The simple Irish girl
full of faith, in the midst of pious
parents and of educational opportuni-
ties, in the secret of her soul heard the
call of God. Ambitions were before
her as they are before every girl.
Pleasures she brushed aside because
she heard the voice of the bridegroom.
"Her religious life has covered an
entire span of life. Thirty-three years
in religion means much of sacrifice and
fidelity and when we realize where her
service was-it was not the ordinary
service of a religious-it was a service
of heroism, for to my mind the Good
Shepherd nun presents heroism seldom
seen. Out of a happy home, in fervor
of devotedness and conservation, the
Good Shepherd nun places herself with
in the reach of salvation of those who
have fallen. She is G. white-robed angel
of mercy to bring up to a nobler life
her sisters whom she calls her children
Mother Incarnation was no ordinary
power-we all felt it. No one could
come within reach without being bet
ter. She never knew what it was to
doubt, but always saw the sunshine
and felt that God was with the Coco
Shepherd. Those of you who have
known her have seen her sweetness
mildness and spirit of religious hos
pitality and devotedness. All. yes, il
was that spirit of devotedness of work
and burden that hurried her last mo-
ments.
Suffered in Silence
''In all my experience 1 never knew
the spirit of sacrifice more. While suf-
fering she said not word and trudged
up and downstairs watching all. Fol
six months that woman suffered
agonies and no one knew it. She had
her duty to perform and when the
crisis came she went in obedience. II
mattered not only that it was her
duty.
when she was told of the physical
pain and mental anguish and the death