The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-05-25
a,ccIONIST NUNS ARRIVE HERE
ro FOUND THEIR ORDER.
To Re LOCATED AT PITTSBURO

ga on the Eve of the Feast of
Their Holy Founder. The Daugh-
tors of St. Paul of the Cross. A
sympathetic Phase of Spiritual
Warfare.
NEW YORK.-Those of us who
can remember the days of the civil
nor when the men went forth to
aob+ and the women at home fol-
lowed them with their prayers, will
and a sympathetic touch in~the pic
+rro of a phase of spiritual warfare
which is given US in recent number
Of the Catholic News.
People sometimes talk as if they
+bonght that we had become so prac-
teal in these latter days that there
was little time for prayer even if
there might be some possible good to
no gotten out of it. But l doubt
Il whether that is more than the chat
Ter of people who like to attract at
tention by saying something which
+bev think sounds startling or orig
\ inai The people of the United States
are a God-fearing folk if / mistake
NOT and the majority of them say
their prayers sometime during the
dav. and desire Gods blessings upon
their labors But l am getting away
from my subject. | thought, how
ever. that something by way of in
reduction was needed to preface an
account of the establishment of an
order of women who are coming to
this country to shut themselves up,
awav from all intercourse with the
outer world, intending to devote pref
tv nearly all their time to interces-
sions and prayers for their friends
in the world A life of this descrip-
ton is of necessity so shut out from
the public gaze that many of us can
hardly realize that such a state of
affairs exists at all in this country,
and yet there are hundreds of de-
& voted and holy souls who have for
many years been living here in our
midst the clustered life of which
4 I speak.
The steamer Roma of the Fabre
line brought to this country among
Il its other passengers five Passionist
nuns, accompanied by the Very Rev.
Joseph Annheim, G. P, consultor
4 general of the Passionist order.
These five are on their way to the
diocese of Pittsburg, Pa, where they
will found the first convent of the
order in this country. On their ar
rival they were met by several of the
Passionist fathers of st. Michael's
Passionist monastery, West Hoboken,
HN J.
They are to spend a few weeks
with one of the communities of Sis
i ters in the latter place before start
ing for their future home in Pitts
burg. While at West Hoboken they
i celebrated the feast of st. Paul of
4 the Cross with the Passionist fathers
and the Passionist sisters, so that
the celebration will be the solemnity
of the holy founder of both branches
i Of the Passionist.
1t is a singular coincidence that
h eve of the feast of their holy found
er, and will be permitted to cele-
brate the day with all the solemnity
s OF the church'S ritual as carried out
in the sanctuary of the far-famed
& monastery. The celebration of the
least of st. Paul began with first
8 yespers solemnly chanted at 2:30 on
Fl Wednesday, afternoon Thon oarTy
thursday morning at 2 o'clock, at
which hour the fathers and students
4 and brothers of the monastery rise
every morning to chant Mathis and
Lauds, this office was also solemnly
& Chanted.
Masses were celebrated on the
morning of the feast at $50, 6, Z
and . o'clock, and a Solemn High
mass at 10 O'Clock, when a panegyric
Vi The saint was delivered. In the
afternoon at 3 o'clock the second
,eSpers of the feast were sung. At
'HeSe TWO latter services-the solemn
mass and the vespers in the after
nooh-the newly arrived sisters as
SSteo. The coming of these holy
.engious attracts more than ordinary
uoIlce. Given to a life of prayer and
peudnce, leading a strictly clustered
"ie, having no direct communication
WIN the outside world their voca-
Non is one of singular significance
Ike their holy founder, these
a a,l are continually pleading with
U''ine goodness on behalf of sinners