New Britain herald., 1925-02-07
BISHOP OFF|CIATES
 AT FUNERAL MASS St. JOSeph'S Church Crowded at
 Obsequies for Father Daily OVER 100 PRIESTS ATTEND
Rt. Rev. Mons. McAuliffe of Hart ford Delivers Impressive Eulogy As Practitioners Pay Last Tribute To Pastor For 12 Years.

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 To Pastor For 12 Years. |. Priests representing more than 100 parishes joined with the con gregation of St. Joseph's church this morning in paying q last tribute to their deceased pastor, Rev. Patrick Daly, for whom funeral services were held with a pontitical solemn high mass at 10 o'clock.
 The capacity of the church was taxed and 1t was found necessary to ask several hundred parishioners to remain in the street outside the edi- flee during the mass.
 Rt. Rev. Monsignor Maurice F. McAuliffe of Hartford diocese, de- livered the eulogy. He took as the text: Let q man so account of us as the ministers of Christ and the dispensers of the mysteries of God" In part. Monsignor McAuliffe said:
 Ut was my privilege a few years lago to preach the sermon on the occasion of the silver jubilee of your deceased pastor. On that day he stood before the altar of God cloth- cd in vestments of gold and offered the solemn sacrifice of the mass. Today there is change. He is be- fore the altar clothed in the vest ments of death; possessio nhas giv- en way to bereavement; the chant has given way to the dirge. The hand that was raised in the holy sacrifice of the mass has fallen, and the priest has entered into the eternal holy of holies.
 Through life he had followed the example of his predecessors, the apostles, who said: The Glory He has given me I give them What Christ had predicted, he fulfilled. Before He died, He left Himself as a last will and testament. He charges His priests with a divine mission, telling them, you have not The same words He has spoken to the priests of every generation. time and tongue, to go out and work in His vineyard and reap benefits. Af- ter 32 years of service, the Lord has restored Father Daily to his inheri- tance.
 "A good home fostered the call of God. a strong minded father. and a Kind gentle mother guided form and faith of the young aspirant to priesthood. His home made it not difficult to hear the voice and take the hand that called him. It was a home not different from other Irish homes, where the voice of the Master is heard and revered, where the call of the Savior reechoes as on Ascension Day.
 "Out of this home went two spouses of Christ, one to far off Aus tralia to spend herself in the care of the weak and the erring; the other to our own diocese to minister to the sick and dying in St. Francis's hospital in Hartford. And during the time the brother was preparing him self in schools and college to serve, if distance separated them, their hearts were united by a bond of charity and prayer.
 Humble, gentle and generous, he was impelled by one desire, absorb ed with one idea-to be a worthy priest. By study and prayer he pre- pared himself to be a partner of Christ. He shared the privileges and the prerogatives of the King of his people, He took darkness from our eyes and guided us.
 Father Daly as priest, was the mediator between God and man. God far off from man, heaven far off from earth is irreligion, God has sanctifed all nature. He came to redeem man, plotted out the hand writing against us, and broke the al i lianCe between man and eternal death. Christ was the central figure of history. His prophecies were ful- 1 filled and through the sacrifice of the cross, the faith of the earth was re- newed. When the Lord returned 10 his father, was the earth to be de- serted? Were the gates Of heaven to he closed? Was the day of joy to be followed by one of sorrow? Ee elected to abide among us in the most simple and common form of daily life, bread and wine. He nam ed his apostles to be his priests and gave them the mighty mandate: DO 1 this in commemoration of me- He lifted weak mortals into his priest hood.
 ''Is it any wonder that this young Levite knelt trembling before the al tar in 1893. The words of God sunk deeply into his mind because he low ed the priesthood. For him there was no greater honor. His activities in various parishes revealed him man of God. Kind and sympathetic for others, he was characterized by true Christian zeal. He was a power 1 for good. Each soul he regarded as treasure, no labor was too great, no sacrifice too protracted if by 1t soul was to be wrenchCd from evil. Assiduous in the confessional, in- structive in the pulpit kind and gen. tle to the sick, esteemed wherever he went, Father Daly shared the benignity of his Master. He was kind in every thought and act, not the kindness that springs from weak ness, but the kindness that comes out of the heart and reaches the heart.
 He consoled the poor, lonely, in- firm and the orphan. He aided with counsel and helped with his purse. Out of a very modest income, he gave to all charities He helped struggling students to reach the sanctuary of God, and 10 all these kind works he added others. At the foot of the altar he learned 10 guide others, there he found new strength to bear the burden of his thoughts. He studied 10 prepare himself to be
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