EDUCATIONAL.
(Bishop Moron's Lenten Pflstorid for 1876.) On previous occasions we called your attention to the ali-iihportant question of education, and urged oil you the necessity of providing Catholic schools for Catholic children. We can only now repeat the words of-for-mer Pastorals ; nothingis reference to this subject;. It is, hpw,— ever, consoling and eneouragingjtol be able to bear witness to the docility and. zeal wittf which you have responded io this, call. Although conrparitively few and poor, you have established and maintained, many - excellent schools both sexes, and, in most places, atyour own sole expense. But though, niuch has been done, the work, it may-with, truth be said; has only commenced. .Nothing like adequate provision- for even the most elementary education of our children has yet been made. Kene.wed exertions, tberefore,will be demanded of all ; and the faithful of 'this diocese will have toVprepaxethemselves for great sacrifices,' in order to hand down to their children the faith once, delivered; to the saints, and without which' "it is impossible to please G-odV'^Heti Sci:'v.: 8. : : ,You :; riiust trust in God and "ypiir own exertions alone;-from the. Governments—Provincial and Generals—you r can expect nothirig. Everywhere the system of education supported by the State throughout this Colony-Js anti-Catholic. So far as we are, concerned, all Government schools in-this diocese are godless and hostile to the Catholic Church. Catholics cannot frequent therirwithout exposing themselves to grievous dangers to; their faith.-i-and morals, Of these schools, therefore, Catholics cannot avail them-selves-.except in cases of veiy great necessity, and when—such necessity being supposed— evt'ry possible "precautiou is taken to .ward off all. dangers to faith and morals. Parents and guardians should bear in inind that they are responsible for the children under their charge, and often reflect on these words of the Apostle: "He that neglects his own, particularly those of his own household, has lost the faith, and is become worse tharian infidel;" and again on these words of our Divine Master: "What will r it avail a man to tain the whole world'if he lose his own soul, or what will a man give in exchange for his soul ?" We, therefore, most earnestly exhort all to exert themselves to establish and maintain efficient Catholic schools wherever it is possible-to do so ; and- we call upon the clergy—who, indeed, have not ' been u anting in this matter—to exert themselves with the greatest zeal and perseverance in tho great cause of Catholic education. Nothing but such an education can save the rising generation from the baneful influence of the infidel systems of education so characteristic of this century, and so fashionable in this Colony. ■
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 365, 4 March 1876, Page 3
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