The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-05-02
AUSTRALIAN NUNS MAY COME
TO AMERICA.
Great Order of Nuns Who Go Into
Wilderness Wanted Here.

Wilderness Wanted Here.
The Catholic Church Extension So
ciety is endeavoring to bring out from
Australia an order of Sisters, found
ed on the great Island Continent, and
whose labors in their own country
have brought down the blessing of
heaven on localities miles from CEN
tiers of civilization, where these Sis
tiers work. The Sisters of Saint Jo-
seph of the Sacred Heart are COM
munity unique among the Orders of
the Catholic Church. Their rule calls
for even the remuneration of all that
nun desires, the Mass, the Sacra-
ments,-all indeed that they may go
out and keep alive the spark of faith
in the hearts of the faithful living in
localities where there is no priest and
no church. There could be no greater
sacrifice for a nun. But the Sisters
of st. Joseph of the Sacred Heart
make it; and the wondrous fruit of
their sacrifices is the great evidence
that God has blessed it. The Order
has increased and multiplied until
the sight of their brown wells and
brown habits has become familiar in
the country designated by Australians
as "out-back.''
Poverty seems but a stimulant to
their efforts, and if the st. Joseph
nuns ever went into a district and
were driven out of it again by pow
erty or opposition, the case is unre-
corded 1t is not known. Their
foundress, Mother Mary of the Cross,
realized the great need of Sister
hood, who, willing to sacrifice them
selves, would forego the delights of
religion in order that the faithful in
forsaken parts might have a few
crumbs served them.
Land is Given for the Nuns.
The Society, ever anxious to build
up the Church in out-of-the-way
places, recognized that these nuns
were the nuns to work in the country
districts of America. Australia is a
long way off, but communications
we're established, and the Mother-Gen-
eral, filled with the self-forgetting
spirit of her Society, has consented to
send some of her subjects here to
make a foundation.
The southern part of the United
States is the part selected for the first
mission, and a farm of twenty acres
has generously been donated to their
use. A gentleman has offered to pay
the expenses of their transportation
from Australia, and the sum of about
$4,000 is needed for the building of
their home. Of course, less might do
it, but the building should be sub
stantial and decent, for there is no
doubt that the Sisters of ST.. Joseph of
the Sacred Heart, once established in
America, will grow.
There is great field for these re-
ligious here, for even in dioceses that
may be considered we'll populated ter
ritories, there is much to be desired in
the way of Catholic influence for the
people in the country districts. Bish.
op Schrembs stated at the Second
Missionary Congress held last fall in
Boston, that in his own diocese alone
there were two hundred and sixty
towns and villages untouched by
Catholic effort, and the diocese OF
Bishop Schrembs, by the widest
stretch of Imagination, can not be
called pioneer one.
"Mother-General informed me thai
she would send four religious Sisters
at the least as soon as circumstances
and opportunity permit" said an Aus
tralian priest writing to the Society
This priest is the Reverend Father
E. Carroll, who is greatly interested
in securing the Order for the mis-
sions of America.
"The sacrifice would be repaid q
hundred fold" Father Carroll assured
the Mother General, land it would be
a pity not to seize such grand op
portunity of saving souls therein
which work evidently kind Provi
dence desires the Sisters to help"
There are many young American
ladies who have felt the call of this
vocation, and it probably will not be
long before their hope of having the
Sisters of st. Joseph of the Sacred
Heart here in America may be real.
lied.
The Society is anxious to secure
the convent, and is anxious to hear
from anyone in any way interested or
willing to help in this work. The ad-
dress of the Catholic Church Exten-
sion Society is 1873 Mccormick Build
ing, Chicago, and donations may be
sent there.
JAPAN,