The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-07-03
against us who may, provided the
principle we uphold is understood and
honorably admitted.
Praise to Pastors. Praise to Teaching
Rrotherhoods and sisterhoods
of the Church.


of the Church.
AS we chant the triumps Of, our
schools praise to whom praise is due.
/ name the pastors of parishes.
With what whole-hearted energy they
have thrown themselves into the
breach! Sacrifices. heroic in their
exigencies we're to be made: they
have been made cheerfulIy and per-
severingly. BY continuous exhorta-
ton, by unceasing impulse Of example,
they have likened to their own the
convictions, the sacrifices of their
people-and so, pastors and people
united in firm phalanx, wonders have
been wrought. Among pastors there
is the holy rivalry-Who shall have
the most serviceable chool-building,
who shall number within them, pro-
portionately to the population, the
largest number of pupils? Time was
when the church or the presbytery
was the chief magnet of priestly zeal:
today it is the school-house. With
out the intelligent zeal of pastors,
without their personal self-denial,
their ceaseless appeal to their people,
the triumphs of the Catholic faith in
matters of religious education were
never possible.
| name our teaching Brotherhoods
and Sisterhoods. To them, this
morning, in the name of Catholic edu-
cation bow in reverence and graft
tude. Sublime their life. in which we
behold the magnificent towering of
divine life imbedded in the deep fibre
of the Church by Christ, her Founder.
Nothing but a divinely-fashioned
Church could have. produced them:
nothing but the supernatural grace of
the Almighty could have nurtured the
virtues that brighten their labors.
Our Brotherhoods and our Sister
hoods it is, that permit our Catholic
schools to exist. They are prodigal Of
their services for the merest shade of
pecuniary retribution. Without them
the financial burthen of Catholic
schools were insupportable: without
them Catholic schools, should have
long ago closed their doors Our
Brotherhoods and our Sisterhoods It
lis to whom we owe the high degree OF
efficiency which is the glory of, our
schools, which has VIGOROUSLY over
come prejudices whether among Cath
olics themselves or among non-Catho
| lies, that at one time SO seriously i'm
peded their onward march.
Welcome to the New Cathedral Of
ST. Paul.
| | rejoice that therfirst extraordinary
convocation, gathered beneath the
dome of the new Cathedral of st
Paul, is that of the Catholic Educa
tional Association of the United States
of America. In greeting the Catholic
Educational Association, the Cattle
dral greets the sacred principle thai
religion is inseparable from the true
education of childhood and of you'll
principle to Witch from ALTA
and pulpit the Cathedral of st. Pau
will ever consecrate its hottest inspira
tions, its most potent energies.
Delegates to the Convention of th'
Catholic Educational Association o
the United States, thank you for tn
honor of your presence in the Cattle
dral of st. Paul: thank you for thu
great cause you are championing:
invoke upon the deliberations of you
several meetings the blessings of Hin
who once did say: Suffer the littl,
children and forbid them not to come
to me" 80,