BISHOP MORAN’S LENTEN PASTORAL.

Evening Star, Issue 4058, 28 February 1876, Page 2

BISHOP MORAN’S LENTEN PASTORAL.

ten .Pastoral for 1876 was xesd.at .Mass m S.t. Joseph’s yesterday. Toughing education. the principal subject dealt with.Dr - , ' • On previous occasions we called your attention to the all-important question of education, andunred ■on you the neoci smty, ofprovidlng Catholic schools for CathpLo children. We can only now repeat the wbfcds or former Pastorals ; nothing is toamred in rof erenoeto this encouragingtobe able to bear witness to the docility teafwithwhlob youMreresponded to onr call Although Obiipara lively few and poof, you have established'and maiuttuned many schools for bath ■ • 4n Jhost• places, at your sole expettee ' with truth be said, ha s only commenced. . Nothing bkb adequate provision for even the mostelemenwry education of our ohildren 'bias yetheen made all; and the faithful ol this Diocese will have to prepare themselves lor great sacrifices, in order to hand down to their children the faith onftedellvdted .to the aunts, and without which “ it is imp&aflrio topleaaa Qod.“—Hob. xi, v. 6. , You must trust in God and your own exertion* (done; from the Governments—Provincial and General—you can expect nothing. EveryWhefe the * system of education supported by tho throughout this Colony is anti-Catholic. Sotsras we are concerned, all GdvertxUeUt Schools ifi tHiB chot'ese are, godless and hostile to the ftiMufliChurch. Catholics cannot frequent them witront tttposlng tbemsdves to grievous, dingers to & &ito ;atd morals. Of toeto aohodls, toeteforb. Catholics cannot avail themselves except in * cases ot yery grout necessity, and when—such necessity beiugenrpjtosed—eVefcypossible"precaution Stedcen to ward o'ff all dafagets to faith anflmorals. Parents and guardians should bonr' in mlnd that toefrCte responsible for the children under their ehante. and often reflection these tror&a of the Apostle :-*?• Me that negleots his own, particularly those of his tdm household, nfaS'lost the faith,and ls become woroe than an infidel; and again on these words of our Dlvme What i will lt avail a man to gain the whole world if he lose his own s'ouL or what will a man give in exchange for.hip soul t" We, therefore; most earnestly tehoft' all to exert themselves to establish and maintadn efficient Catholic schools wherever it is possible to do so • and wo eaU upon top clergy—who, indeed, have not been wanting m this matter—*to exert themsalve* with the greatest sea) and perseverance in toe srtet cause of Catholic education. Nothing but such & education can save the rising generation fr«m the Mneful influence of toe infidel. systems of edUna. tion so characteristic of this century, fashionable in this (jolony.