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Show THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC 8 Angeles and San Die'go; the Right Reverend Thomas J. Walsh, Bishop of Trenton; the Right Reverend Thomas J. Shahan, Bishop of Germ anicopolis; the Right Reverend Patrick A. McGovern, Bishop of Cheyenne; the Right Reverend J. Henry Tihen, Bishop of Denver; the Right Reverend Owen B. Corrigan, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore; the Right Reverend Daniel F. Feehan, Bishop of Fall River; the Right Reverend Thomas J. Hickey, Bishop of Rochester, and the Right Reverend Michael J. Hoban, Bishop of Scranton. The Diocese of Salt Lake was officially represented at the consecration ceremony hy the ' Very Reverend Monsignor Michael F. Sheehan, pastor of St. Patricks, Salt Lake City; the Reverend Louis J. Fries, of the Cathedral of the Madeleine; the Reverend Martin Burke of Austin, Nevada, and the Reverend Patrick Kennedy of Ely, Nevada. Bishop Mittys first Episcopal blessing wa s sent to the people of the Diocese of Salt Lake in the following telegram to the Right Reverend Monsignor P. M. Cushnahan, Administrator of the Diocese: t . With the sacred anointing of consecration fresh upon his head and hands and from a d full heart, your Bishop sends his first Episcopal blessing to priests, religious and laity of Salt Lake Diocese and warm and sincere regards to all his future May the Holy Spirit enlighten and strengthen me to be another Christ to you and do the work of Christ for you! May that same Divine Spirit make my coming blessing to you now and a pledge of eternal happiness thereafter! newly-consecrate- fellow-citizen- s. John J. Mitty. Immediately after the consecration ceremonies Bishop Mitty was the guest of the priests of the Archdiocese at a dinner served in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Commodore. About jix hundred priests were present, while at the dais table with the guest of honor were His Eminence, Cardinal Hayes, and the Bisho ps who had attended the ceremony at the Cathedral. There were three speeches, all of them informal. The Right Reverend Monsignor John P. Chidwick, D. D., who was president of St. J osephs Seminary while Bishop Mitty was a of professor there, acted as the toastmaster. He eloquently gave expression to the the priests of New York for Bishop Mittys success in the Western See, and on behalf of the Bisho p with a token of their esteem, a purse of gold. priests presented the Monsignor Chidwicks address was as follows: well-wish- newly-conseicrate- es d Your Eminence, Right Reverend Bishops, Right Reverend and Very Reverend Monsignori, Very Reverend and Reverend Fathers: To me has been accorded the distinguished privilege and honor to present, in the name of the clergy of the Archdiocese of New York and of the Alumni of St. Josephs Seminary at Dunwoodie and of all the friends of our distinguished guest, their warmest and heartiest felicitations upon his elevation to the episcopate in the Church of God. Right Reverend Bishop Mitty, you are now seated in the chair of the mighty and in the councils which direct the eternity of men and guide the soul of the world in its true and enduring progress through the ages. The Holy Ghost has come to you and filled you with the plentitude of the Priesthood of Jesus Christ and made you a source of its life and power, a living center and head of its efficacy and authority. He has drawn you into closer and more loving espousals with the Divine Master, to Whom you consecrated your life and by Whom you were filled in your ordination to the priesthood, and has infused into you an incalculable wealth of spiritual riches that might become your closer union with your Beloved and enable you from your place of eminent power and dignity to shine resplendently as His Alter Christus. . You are now a successor of the Apostles. You are a member of that wonderful body of ecclesiastics whose history, reaching back to the Master, is the history of Christian faith and civilization. You are a shepherd of the shepherds of the flock of the Saviour; a leader in the army of Christ; in your hands has been reposed a trust second only to that placed in the hands of the Soverign Pontiff himself. Language is not rich enough to express all that has been done to exalt you in dignity; no mind can grasp all the heights and depths of the trust and grace bestowed upon you in the ceremony of this morning. With reverent and high exultation, your friends salute you in your sublime office and preferment, and realizing its exigent and onerous duties and its exacting and grevious responsibilities, they : give you assurance of their constant and fervent prayers. . , . ; |