The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-01

the hearts of children and by your
 fidelity, by your own lives, by your willingness to improve the school, to
 make it what it ought to be, good for
 the child you are bringing up, you fit 1 him to take his place in the world but ] greater still to represent the church 1 of God in the virtue of his life. Your
 example is what God wants, what he requires of you. Therefore, let this day, as I am sure it will be, be a blessing to the parish
 and a source of renewed spiritual life in the parishioners. Of course, here and elsewhere there is one or another who is careless in his duty. Let him i remember the lesson that mentioned from the Gospel of today of the girl | that W IS not dead, but sleeping. If | the Saviour had not come her soul
 would have left her, and her body
 would have gone to the grave. When | the Saviour came, life came with him.
 Let us remember that if you have the ! faith there is hope. s'The girl is not | dead but sleepeth.''
 | There are perhaps some who can
 take that lesson. Am I sleeping only,
 or is my sleep so deep that it has
 ended in death? If the gift of God
 is thrown away I must be separated
 from Him forever, if have separated
 myself in time. Oh brethren, let such
 speak now to God, not here in this | their sins, but in the confessional | kneel at the feet of Gods minister | and ask to be made again one of the | Faithful.
 The prelates and priests who at
 tended the dedication included the fol
 lowing: Rt. Rev. Thomas J. .Shahan,
 rector of the Catholic University; Rt.
 Rev. John J. Milan, D. D. Bishop of
 Hartford; Rt. Rev. Mgr. Thomas S.
 Duggan, viccar-general of the diocese,
 of Hartford; Rt. Rev. John Reilly of
 Schenectady, New York; cry. Rev.
 Thomas F. Burke, c. s. F., of New
 York; Rev. William Blake, c M, of
 Germantown, Pa; Rev. William Flynn,
 chancellor of the diocese of Hartford;
 Rev. Michael McKeon, Rev. John D. Coyle, Rev. James Heating and Rev.
 Fr. Croley, o. P, of New Haven; Rev. John Neill and Rev. John T. Lynch of
 Meriden; Rev. Maurice McAuliffe,
 Rev. Rev. A. Cavanaugh, Rev. James
 E. Dargan, Rev. Thomas Conlon and
 Rev. John Cotter of Hartford; Rev. M. O'Connor of Stratford; Rev. William
 Blake of Fairfield; Rev. Jeremiah
 Duggan of Westport; Rev. R. J. Car
 roll of South Norwalk, Rev. Fr. Finn and Rev. J. Reilly of Norwalk; Rev.
 James c. O'Brien and Rev. Dr. D. Glea- son of Stamford; Rev. Fr. Coholan of : Riverside; Rev. John Fitzgerald of Waterbury; and the following clergy } of Bridgeport: Rev. James B. Nihill,
 eRv. Patrick J McGivney, Rev. Mat
 thew Traynor, Rev. Charles Leddy, | Rev. Edward ShauShnesSy, Rev. John Lynch, Rev. John kane, eRv. Stephen
 Chernitzky, Rev. J. Boyle, Rev. G. J Y. Donahue, Rev. J. Hanley.
 The seating arrangements were un- , der a trained corps of ushers whose expert direction resulted in everyone being seated without confusion. They were: William Lee, Walter Gerrity
 Arthur Cummings, Peter Boyle, John , BroGerick, Richard Lee, George Ells worth and T. Farrell.
 u During the mass prayers were asked j., for the repose of the soul of Terence S MacSwiney, late mayor of Cork.
 The exterior of the edifce was dec . orated with American flags.
 | The Sacred Heart parish was frs a set apart by Bishop Lawrence s. -l c = Mahon in 1884. Rev. Dennis J. Cren r min, who was then pastor at Green s wich, was made it's first pastor. Ht S took up his residence in the Soutl T T End and began to organize the fev II scattered families of that section. Flo # some title time he held services in tn, n opera house. The church foundation 70 was dug in the early fall and tn e church structure was erected and fin Il ished by 1885. Father Crennin wa :. made pastor of St. Augustines in 1S8 'I and his successor was Rev. James ( O'Brien, the present pastor at Stan If ford During his pastorate, Fathe IT O'Brien built the parochial school an le renovated the rectory. In the fall c e. 1900 he was succeeded by Rev. Timc le thy Sweeney. During Father Swee Il, ney's pastorate the brick convent o Park avenue was erected. Fathe ,e Sweeney remained as pastor until hi m death in 1913. The present pasto IF Rev. Dr. Richard F. Moore, assume ,5 oh of hn ri c1, in, A11or of fc Id year. He found debt of $11 900 o CT the property, which was cleared off
 year. He made some improvement consisting of additional rooms in tn in school, renovating the convent an ay beautifying the grounds. On Myrtl at avenue he added to the church pro ;i- erty by the purchase of lot betwee he the rectory and the church. On Wa he ren street he purchased the Ian we hammer estate, a large peice of pro fi. f erty on which are two houses. Ft oJ the last three years he has given h lis time and attention to the restorat1e ne and renovation of the Church of u n- Sacred Heart. He had done most ks this work without the assistance of 2 es- architect and thereby saved a vel en substantial sum of none yto the pc o4 pie of the parish. By his skillful ma all agement of various contracts he VI -e- able to provide a church that wou We otherwise have cost considerab .s more. Dr. Moore is happy to say tn he the debt now on the property is ve he crna1r in counarison wift the val, ;16 represented.
 ,ra At 8 o'clock in the afternoon co
 it firmation was administered to a c1a
 of six hundred children and a fe lrd adults the largest class in the histo icy of the parish. The Catholic chur ul- teaches that confirmation is a sacl rm ,,,ao+ tb-o,rb .ub;o1, ,,r,oo is eo,forr It tttoS osae +..iah+a,, ny oh poPtiAu Poioola, .e. t 1v- tneIn TOT the uuIy oi prolessiAs be- Christian faith and Is usually adm the istered when the candidate is twel me 0 rthirteen years old, after a prepa are tory course in Christian doctrine ley order that each candidate may und loii stand the nature of the sacrame d's ' ho soei @n,ont ~1s ooin,IiiSeoIe md hl- fesF. 1olH '. l<Ian' WHo Andue i'm nraSGiVR fIP7ITa vested in ami