The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-14
WILL HONOR
IT'S FOUNDRESS
Elizabeth Ann Bailey Seton
Remembered BY Sisters
Of Charity.
THE NEW HALL TO BE OPENED

On Friday, December 18th, the en-
tire community of the New Jersey
Sisters Of Charity will honor the mem
ory Of the original foundress, Mother
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, and cele-
brate with appropriate ceremonies the
centennial of her birth. 1t is fitting
that the youngest branch of the Sis
ters Of Charity in the United States,
that of New Jersey. should close the
jubilee year with their Seton cere-
monies. simultaneously throughout
the diocese, and in all houses in other
dioceses in which New Jersey Sisters
have schools, there will be held COM
mem0rative programs AT the Col
lege of st. Elizabeth, special evening
Is to be devoted to Mother Seton NUM-
bers, the collegians and highsschool
departments vying with the juniors in
doing honor to the noble woman who
first planted the great seed of charity
in the states in the establishment of
the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent
de Paul at Pittsburg.
Among the selections of the evening
at Convent Station was a beautiful
Seton Reverie, the work Of Rose G.
Smyth, A. B., 10, also a Seton Ode,
the composition of Angelo Maloney,
b., 80. Biograhical notes. in which
the story of Mother Seton's life and
the marvellous history of her work,
were given by Florence M. Backes,
high school 10. The musical selec-
tions, orchestral and vocal, were
adapted to the special occasion, one of
them being a prayerful rendering Of
Mother Seton's favorite prayer, Animi
Christi" and the singing in full chorus
OF her loved hymn, Jerusalem. I
Setoniana consisted Of exquisite
extracts from the work and letters of
Mother Seton, and the closing word Of
praise, by Miss Florence Wall, college
'l3, was sweet and reverent tribute
to the wonderful woman of our day.
A paper by Miss Alice Hutchinson,
college ~, revealed in tender love and
{ feeling words the influence OF Mother
Seton on the generations of hundred
years.
The Sisters and entire student body
attended the Seton exercises in the
grand auditorium, and the presence OF
the venerable Mother Mary Xavier
lent special appropriateness to the
scene of commemoration.
The Seton day exercises began with
the celebration OF mass in the morn
ing by the Reverend Chaplain of the
Convent, Father Gately, at which all
the student assisted. In the afternoon,
benedction was given, closed by a new
hymn composed by the Sisters in honor
of the centenary of Mother Seton. The
program of the evening was rendered
at seven O'Clock.
] Coincident with the Seton festival
is the opening Of the beautiful new
addition to the main building, known
as Seton Hall, in honor of Mother Se-
ton AS st. Elizabeth's itself owes it's
name largely to Mother Seton, after
ST. Elizabeth the mother of st. John
the Baptist, the intimate relations al
ways existing between their school
and the great woman whose centenary
/ is now being celebrated, have addi-
tional force and meaning. This year
also the community in New Jersey
4 will celebrate its golden jubilee, so
that the centennial year carries spe-
cial grace for this branch of the vast
order of charity in the United States.
The jubilee proper will be celebrated
on Thursday, December 30th, when a
solemn pontifical mass will be sung by
the Right Rev. John Joseph 0 'Connor,
DID, Bishop of Newark. Invitations
have been issued to the Reverend CLERGY
and TO the alumn@ of the institution,
and large attendance is expected on
the Both INST.