The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-10

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her life to save her child from want.
| If human nature be capable of such
| impulses, we cannot wonder at hear
ing Jesus Christ say: Take and eat,
| this is my body drink this, which is
my blood; do this for a commemora-
| tion of me- But how perpetuate this
| sacrifice? Who will be the dispenser
of this mystery? Who but the priest.
The Eucharist and tie priest are two
| terms answering to each other. With
out the priest you would not have the
Eucharist, and without the Eucharist
you would not have the priest. When
| the flowers bloom their fairest, and
when the music is sweetest and most
| touching, fairer far than any flower
that earth can grow, is the love that
is throned upon the altar, and voice
sweeter than any earthly music is
coming from the tabernacle whence
Jesus speaks and says Come to me
all you that labor and are buIdened,
and | will refresh you" And Jesus
was placed there by the consecrated
hands of the priest.
Who is there in this world, my
friends, who does not need a little
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where shall we find it? Even if we
are not alone. even II we have some
friends, are there not troubles and
sorrows and secrets, which almost
break our hearts, and which we can
not tell them? This anguish is such
at times that a monster has been seen
bending over the cradle of an infant,
who is smiling placidly in its sleep
and crying to tit was / who killed
your mother"
1t was worthy of Jesus Christ to
make Himself, by means of His
priests. the secret CONSIDERS of souls;
it was worthy of Jesus Christ to es-
tablish a secret place where we could
carry our faults and our sorrows and
receive consolation and advice.
A great deal of the miseries of life
come to us from our not knowing our
selves. And where shall we find this
enlightenment Our friends, aye, our
parents, hesitate to tell us our mis-
takes II was worthy of Jesus Christ
to establish a place where that light
might be found-to provide us with
tender, affectionate, dsinterested and
paternal voice which would bring us
this light and save us from dishonor
and misfortune Ii is found in the
dialogue which takes place between
the penitent and the priest. Il am
proud, Father, and ford of riches''-"lt
is true, my child, but remember:
blessed are the meek and lowly; and
what will it profit you to gain the
whole world and lose your soul2' Con-
template the life of the Goldman, who
will be one day your Judge, and fol-
low Him.
Even more, we all need pardon, but
where shall we find it? Society does
not pardon; it strikes and dishonors,
but does not pardon. Neither does
conscience pardon we may have ar
rived at the last rung of the ladder
of power; but if we have mounted il
by unjust means, our conscience win
awake us even under gilded curtains
in order to whisper: You are feared
you are respected but you are moth
ing but wretch" Who can reach
the depths of the heart 10 purify it?
Laws do not succeed. for they relate
only to external actions and do nol
touch the heart 1t was worthy of
Jesus Christ who came to save that
which was lost. to establish means of
purging hearts of crime. He does it
through His priests to whom He said,
Whose sins you shall forgive they
are forgiven and whose sins YOU shall
retain, they are retained You can
go aside from the gaze of men and
whisper your fault into the ear of one
who will bury it in a silence deeper
and more sacred than the silence oil
the grave and, if properly disposed,
leave his presence with Gods benedic-
ton upon you-the bloom of inno-
cence within your soul.
Is it any wonder then that the
priest should be called, as in the
words of my text, the minister of
Christ and the dispenser Of the mys-
teries of God?" Such, Father Barron,
is the nature of that priesthood, of
which you are a true representative,
nay. an ornament and a light. / am
not here to indulge aimless praise Oh
adulation. | speak not my own Ian
guage, but the language of those
whose abilities and station in the
church give weight to their words and
power to their praise. This is not the
encomium of my mouth. but the wen
merited eulogy of the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Michaud whose untimely loss we all
deplored. This is the sentiment and
this the conviction of the priests of
this diocese, who thought fit that
your name should go to Rome, as a
worthy successor to Bishops Michaud
and De Goesbriand. For twenty-five
years you have labored with unrepiu-
ing patience in the VINEYARD of the
Master, bearing the heat and the bur
den of the day. It is not necessary
to preach your panegyric. Richmond,
where your name is still revered and
Bennington speak for you today. OF
your labors in this parish, let the
work proclaim the praise. The adorn-
ment of this magnificent church,
whose walls re-echo to your zeal has
words; the artistic windows have
tongues; the beautiful electric light
ing systematic whole parish bears
the name of its jealous pastor up 20
the very battlements of God.
Bear with me. The school forms
the man. Because of its association,
the obedience egacted, the receptive
nature of children, the traditions. the
man is moulded in the school, What
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