The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-03
St. Patrick's Church
 Dedication Recalled
Catholic Transcript Reviews iighghts of Impressive
 Ceremonies in 1903; Cardinal Gibbons Officiated

passive face was striking to be- hold"
 Cardinal Hummed
 The music was supplied by the, boys choir mentioned above; there were eighty-five voices. Assisting them were "the senior choir and the Concordia Singing Society,"" "An orchestra composed of twenty pieces together with piano and harp accompanied the choristers." One of the pieces sung was Lead Kindly Light" The latter hymn is a favorite one with the Cardi- nal, and he hummed it throughout while 1t was being sung" While His Eminence was being vested the orchestra played the Inter mezzo" from "Cavalleria Rusti- cana"
 pr. Stafford's sermon was re- produced in Its entirety by The Transcript. It was on the text, "This is My commandment, that you love one another as have loved you" It reads very well after all these years, but the ref erences to the occasion are con- spicuous by their fewness (two) and their brevlty. pr. Stafford put very forcefully what were the ills of society and what the rem edy Christian love.
 Tn applying this remedy to the problem of capital and labor, the preacher said, What the trouble between capital and labor needs today Is the charity of Jesus Christ. The capitalist must see in the lab- bring man the brother of Jesus Christ It is shameful that one should look on laboring man as so much dust of the earth, as a mere power for turning machines. Those who hold such anti-Christian and un-Christian opinions are re- producing the thoughts of the pa gan Greeks that men were mere machines and they had no person. ality. It is shameful not to give Q man a sufficient wage to live by, 1t Is shameful to oppres shim be- cause he is poor, Let the capitalist see the diivne element of Jesus Christ. Let the laboring man see that because man becomes rich, he does not become a criminal, that he may be rich and be honest, and that the existing difficulty between one anohter is not against the legis- lation and law but against the charity of Jesus Christ"
 Great Growth
 An editorial in the same issue has this to say: "The visit Of His Eminence the Cardinal was much appreciated by the citizens of Wa terhury and by the Catholics of the diocese. The dedication to the service of God of an ediflce so noble was an event worthy of such a presence. The faithful of St, Pat riek's parish have written in stone living testimony of their faith and generosity. The monument which they have erected proclaims with majestic eloquence their de- votion to the cause of religion. Towering over. the humber struc- lures which immediately surround 1t, It's stateliness and manifest strength are typical of the giant growth and permanence of the Catholic Church in New England
 Tt Is inspiring to note the nar-- velous advance which events like that of last Sunday record from year to year. His Eminence could himself recall the time when New England, with New York and Phil adelphia, were but suffragan sees to the metropolitan church of Ball. timore. What giant progress! Bal- timore with It's single bishop ruling from Florida to the St. Lawrence, and inland beyond the Alleghaniesl As the lad advances to manhood, he sees New York made the center of an ecclesiastical province, then Boston; ere he reaches middle life, he beholds New England divided into six sees with full canonical autonomy; and long before age has instituted her claims, he has the happiness of beholding one of these subsidiary sees alone, Hartford, alone outrivaling in population and pros- perity the ancient mother church which is still instinct with life and by no means robbed of the vigor Of youth"
 Tn the previous issue of The Transcript, that of January IS, 1903, complete description of St. Patrick's was given. Five" out of seven columns on page one were devoted to the story.