The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-15
SERMON OF THE MOST REVEREND ARCHBISHOP

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dread sacrifices the labors of the epis-
copate are sure to enforce-labors
which can be borne in patience and in
courage only when God is seen through
them, when God is their final goal. So
weighty are the responsibilities of the
episcopate that with best motives it is
a continuous hardship, daily suffer
ing which naught else but the manifest
will of the Eternal God should permit
us to accept Yet, to the brave sol
der the opportunities it affords are
countless, most precious in the eyes of
Almighty God. Look, then, this morn
ing, Beloved Friend, into it's RESPONSE
bilities and question we'll your soul as
to it's faithfulness to those responsible
tiles. Opportunities from time, from
the priesthood, from the episcopate,
have been given to you in profusion,
even more so than to many other
priests, many other bishops. | need
but hurriedly sketch your career. For
some twelve years you were a priest
in the important parish of st. Patrick,
in the City of Washington, where duty
bade you mingle with the poor and the
rich, the weak and the powerful, the
ignorant and the learned. Then bid
den you were as a Bishop to the Do
cese of Richmond-a missionary do
cese, where the hardships OF poverty
we're yours, where the daily work was
; over mountains and through valleys,
. amid sparse settlements of Catholics.
There you we're the self-sacrificing
apostle, rushing hitber and thither in
search of the wandering sheep: there
you had the opportunities of an apos-
tleship unmixed with all temptation of
earthly comfort and earthly lore.
Then came the great work of breath
ing life into the Catholic University of
Washington, of guiding it's infant STEP
pings, of laying safely and solidly the
foundations upon which it was to grow
into the great stature which we recog-
nize in it today. Today it is the great
tree whose branches spread out over
the entire land, to which come the
thousands to refresh themselves be-
q meath its branches. Yours it was to
& lay well into the soil its roots SO that
later trunk and branches should ever
shun weakness and decay. 1t was
yours as Canon of st. John Lateran in
Rome to be brought into the immediate
atmosphere of the chief government of
the Church, and before it's supreme
head to represent that great part of
the Lords vineyard which is the
e Church of the United States. And
then there was confided to you the Dio-
cese of Dubuque, glorious inheritance
Z where people and priests were so deep.
ly Catholic, so ready for direction from
: your pastoral staff: where every CO
l operation that bishop might desire
: was there to be generously given:
: where consolation such as the true
: spirit of the episcopate authorizes was
, yours in abundance. Many, indeed
and varied were the responsibilities
Il Beloved Friend, of your life, your
priesthood, your episcopate.
shall not allow myself to pronounce
!. within this sanctuary, where the Mas
- ter Himself is present, the eulogy o1
! your faithfulness to your responsible
tiles. To Him alone and to your owr
:, conscience this judgment is reserved
;, This much, however, l shall say-dar
ing to say it because it is as visible as
the MONDAY sun in the clear sky, be
. cause it is a fact which we cannot con
= ceal, even if we should strive to do so
: 1t is this--that as priest and as bishop
: you we're totally, mind and heart, IL
!, your work, resolved at every step t.
!. give to it the best that was in you
, holding nothing back, always ignoring
:. self, seeing only God and the inten
= tions of God. With you it was always
= duty and nothing else: assuredly yo'
= we're never of those who seek thu
\ things that are their own, instead o
seeking the things that are of Jesu
= Christ Disinterestedness unminglet
= with the slightest alloy. oblation o
self, mark your whole career. If short
u coming there we're; as short-comin
= there is with all, it was not on you
part the lack of intention, nor the lac
of self-sacrifice. Turn now to the tai
= ernacle and joyfully say to the Master
that having taken from His hands tn
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T. your endeavor through life to use bot
II priesthood and episcopate solely an
50 purely for His sake and for the servic
OF of those whom He had confided to you
le care.
be
is And now comes the final gift of Coz
ri granted to few of His priests, to fe'
rs of His bishops. AS the journey of lii
y. draws near to its end, you are at peac
= at rest, with naught else to do but loo
nj steadily into the harbor of eternity an
. set your sails for your final fight int
,s its bosom. Fortunate you are: env
Of your lot. Prepared all should be
lv but blessed is he who yet in tt
oh strength of soul has no other task
of fore him but that of plenary prepar
n tion.s And where in America could yC
: be so well at rest, so well in peace :
10 in your own Dubuque. Here there
'or1 the prelate, your successor in ofic
e full of esteem, full of affection for W
- Archbishop James ]. Keane. He
- your sincere friend. ALI that can
Tie done will be done by him to smoo
is, your pathway, to drive from it all ru
;s gedness, to bestow upon you sweete
- - tranquility. In doing this he does
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