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Show l V J . . I Eatest Irisb news ..." v , I ; ' DUBLIN. Tli Tiev. Andrew MacArdle.jS. J.. j .reached a panegyric of St. Paul of the i'mss. the founder of the . paswonirt f ronjrregation, on Sunday, hrthe Cnuicn of tho Cross and Pa.ssion, Mount Argut, 5 ' Dublin. ' ' . . J T)k- monthly statement of the special f -work of the St. Vincent de Paul society t in Dublin in connection with St. ln- tnVx orphanage. Glasnevin, shows I l!,at during April its receipts were l I fis. and its payments 3S". I The pupils of St. Mary's Dominican I ronvent Tabra, County Dublin, gave fin enjovable entertainment in the new . liali attached to the institution on I Tbursdav. The program consisted of J iho historical drama "Mary Queen of Scots The Escape from Loch L.even 1 Inridcnt." with a juvenile performance. I "The Dolls' 'At Home,' " and a high- I class vocal and instrumental concert. I The production and performance of the 1 plays, as well as the rendering of the I various itms at the concert, reflecied J tlio liiphrst credit on the young pupils and their capable teachers. 1 "UTATFRFn'RD. I The Superioress and Community of 1 the Good Shepherd convent, Waterford. I celebrated -the golden jubilee of the :n- 1 traduction of their order into the city i on Friday last. High mass, at which ihc Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan, bishop of I Waterford, presided, was sung in tne I beautiful convent chapel at half-past J 0 o'clock. The celebrant at the mass was the Very P.ev. Canon "Walsh, D. P.. St. John's college: deason, Rev. W. J. ' Kchoe, C. C: Eub-deacon, the Rev. M. j. Crotty. The bishop preached a v?ry I ;ippnpriate and touching sermon, trac- I jnp the history of the foundation of the 1 order, its introduction Into the city, and I its work in "Waterford during the past I half century. ! WESTMEATH. I The convent ofthe PassJonlst nuns, I Kilcullen (W'cstmeath). was, on the rth ult., the scene of an interesting I ceremony the celebration of the silver I jubilee of Sister M. Alacoque. The fes- llvities were begun with the singing by I . the children, past and present, of an i ode composed for the occasion, ar.d I then, through the medium of Miss I Eileen Kane, thelittle ones presented . Sister Alacoque with various gifts in Token of their congratulations. High mass was afterward celebrated oy the I Very Rev. M. Clarke, P. P.. Kilcullon. I . with Rev. P. Traynor. C. C, Clondal- I kin, as deacon: Rev. J.e O'Neill. D. D., 1 sub-deacon, and Rev. Father McGrath, i C. C. Kilcullen, master of ceremonies. 1 Later on in the day the priests and vis- I itors were hospitably entertained by the : TIpv. Mother T?ibiana nnrl her onmmi!. J nity. I ' I Deny. - The announcement of the death of Mrs. O Hagan. wife of Mr. Arthur O'Hagan (The Oaks), was received with much regret all over her native f district of the Vaughan, where she and I her family connections have been long S and favorably known. The deceased I was possessed of estimable qualities I in the exercise of whtrh she made I many friends and won unstinted re- I spect. fulfilling the obligations of her state becomingly and with credit in all her relations of life. She closed her useful and exemplary career fortified I by Hie consolations of religion, the jiious practices of which she fulfilled with unostentatious fidelity. Much I sympathy is felt for her worthy hus-I hus-I band and respected family. I ' I Donegali. t .. ' i At a conference held in St. Patrick's church. Donegal, of the Catholic clergy I of the diocese of Rapho, presided over 1 by his Lordship Most. Rev. pr. O'Don- I i icll, bishop of the diocese, the Right ! ' Kev. Monsignor Walker, P. P.. V. F., . Rurtonport. was appointed to take I charge of the historic parish of Done- I Kal. in succession to the late Right Rev. Monsignor McFadden, P. P., V. G., dean of Raphoe. t f , Kilkenny. j After a long and arduous life spent ? in the service of the Lord, Mother de Sales Greene passed peacefully away ; t the Presentation Convent. Kilken- l - ny. Mother de Sales was in her sixty- i ninth year when the call from God came, and even among the m&hy dis- tinguished daughters of Xano Xagie j her life's work stands out with prqm- inence. The deceased was professed I as far back as the year 1864. and dur- ing the period covering almost half a j century that she was connected with I the religious, charitable and educa- llona.1 work of her noble order, none : labored more zealously, mare effi- ciently, or more unselfishly that she. I Possessed of great administrative I ability, Ehe was frequently chosen for the office of Rev. Mother. S Tipperary. ! The news of the death of Miss Lilius Nugent, eldnsf daughter of Sir John and Lady Nugent, which occurred at Pau on April 9, has been received Jn ? Tipperary, where she was well known j andmuch beloved, with feelings of the I deepest regret, and the greatest sym- j pathy Is felt by the many friends of I the family in the irreparable loss they! I have sustained. J Catholic Ireland. Before England was born in to the family of nations, Ireland was an au- I tonomy, recognized as such by con- temporary races. When Albion was 1 inhabited by a barbarous and savage I jieople, Ireland was in the height I of prosperity. "When the Anglo-Sax- ons were tearing each other to pieces. I Ireland was possessed of a settled government, and was administered by I wise laws, so ancient thnt no one I . knows precisely the period of their first promulgation. When St. Augus- tine was preaching to the heathen. ! when Ethelbert wis receiving bap- tism. when Alfred was a wanderer, j Ireland was sending forth her mis- slonaries ell over the wrold. spread-I spread-I 1 Ing everywhere the gospel of civiliza-I civiliza-I lion. When the fomuir.ti..ns of the I Universities of Cambridge and Ox-I Ox-I ford were laid the Colleges of Ireland I had long been flourishing seats of I learning, imparting to" all who came to the schools knowledge and truth. It would appear that after so much early prosperity Ireland was to enter f the school of suffering, in order that, I by severe trial, she might become again the great witness for. truth I when darkness should once more cov- I er the earth. The dark hour is approaching, the twilight of civilization is long passed, I and the midnight of satar.ic barbar ism is at hand, under the evil Influence In-fluence of which many shall fall to rise no more. When men tio longer rare for truth for its own sake, then a shadow has fallen upon the soul. When people Jn high places regard the truth and untruth as a matter of indifference, darkness has enveloped the soul so' that It-can no longer distinguish dis-tinguish between right and wrong. .When specticism and infidelity have taken hold of the mind, then indeed has the light become darkness. And when indifference to the dictates of the moral iaw, when impurity and sensuality are openly tolerated by so-cUty, so-cUty, then the conscience has become be-come seared; and when murder brutal bru-tal murder and infanticide flagrant dishonesty in business, .and the first principles of socialism and communism commun-ism prevail, then the era of barbarism has indeed commenced. Of all the nations constituting the British empire, there is one, and only one, wherein the Luminary of Fakh and Truth, notwithstanding all the suffering inflicted upon that poor oppressed op-pressed land, still shines resplendent, and wherein the silver light of personal per-sonal and domestic purity still glitters glit-ters with unsullied excellence and glory. She is furnishing witnesses of the Truth of God in every city of England and Scotland. In -the great centers of America and Australian civilization, and even on the continent she is not unrepresented. When the apostacy of Europe is consumated the children of St. Patrick will be lights shining in dark places, cheering the faithful remnants, rem-nants, encouraging the disconsolate, attracting to themselves the .weary wayfarer and the benighted traveler, who hart for u lnntr time lost them selves in the labyrinth of doubt and unbelief, struggling in the mire of abomination and wickedness. It seems, then, that in these last days Ireland and the Irush are the people especially chosen by Good to fight the good fight of Faith against the infernal in-fernal powers of hell: and let them take courage with the thought that their fidelity to the Faith. is a pledge of their future glory, and that their patieree in the school of suffering, through which they have now nearly passed, has been their earthly purgu-tory, purgu-tory, to fit them for the work for which Ireland seems destined by Almighty Al-mighty God. The Hon. Colin Lindsay. Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Great is the chief who. is quietly resting. rest-ing. Peaceful at last in St. Wcrburg's bright fane; Erin forever his glory attesting. Ranked him a martyr what time he was slain. Laud him o'er hill and glen, Echo his praise again. Ye whom fair Leinster has drawn to her breast. Felled by the foeman's sword, Ireland's most worthy lord, Edward Fitzgerald has gone to his rest. You did we look to when death was surrounding Men whom the royal troops sought to oppose: You cheered your spirits 'midst cannon You thinned the ranks of our murderous murder-ous foes. Gone are a hundred years, Gone are the wars and fears. Time holds, in honor the life that you gave;' Minstrels awake the lay. Call back again the day $ Decades agone when he stood 'midst the brave. Sing loud the praise of that glorious martyr; He. the great-hero, is with us no more; Him, whom no yeoman e'er heard ask for quarter. Heaven has summoned, his battles now o'er. There where the, apgels sing Praises to Christ, the King, He has the place which his virtue has won. Erin, through all her days. Well may proclaim in praise Edward Fitzgerald, her valorous son. |
