BISHOP CLEARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 940, 6 October 1910, Page 5

BISHOP CLEARY.

:/ ■// CONSECRATION AT ENNISCORTHY CATHEDRAL. ' The oeremonials in connection with the : consecration of the Right, ltev; Henry W. ■y. Cleary, ij.D., as Roman Catholic Bishop r -' of -Auckland,v:-.whioh*-took -pace in Ennis- ... cortny Cathedral. on Sunuay, August 21, aro. reported; at. length . m a"; Wexford paper just. to hand. The -Most Rev. 1). the /■; / : consecrating ■: prelaw,; andthe Rev. John J. Rossitcr, of the House of Missions,' ■;. Einiscorthy, .' preached, the consecration ; "6ermon, talcing for his text,. "How beau- , ' tiful -. on the ; mountains are the feet of - Him that.'bririgeth good tidings aind that { \-preiacheth peace,and of h,im that showeth ■■'■i: forth.good,'that preacheth solvation that' ;;; saith >of : Sion,thy. Lord/shall reign.". ; ; ; '■; At .the conclusion "of 7 the .consecration ./ i-, 'ceremony'five addresses.were presented to the new Bishop of Auckland, these being .v :• /from -:the 'EnniscorthyU rban' Council,' the ! . ; .''Ennificorthy. Board; of .'Guardians and Dis-' ;.trict > Council, . the County,' Committee of the Gaelic League, former schoolmates of . . Dr. Cleary, and Dr. Cleary's rpartehioiiers. ,/' ! '.To: these -.'Bishop? Cleary. made a lengthy ' and fitting reply.: : ///t In replying to i the toast of his health ■ :;. at'the : succeeding dinner, Bishop Cleary . said that'sin- the new .sphere of work to / ;,; which Providence 'had-''colled him/he. had withvhim':a r rdevoted .clergy, , "and,"' con- • tinued the.speaker,. '.."I succeed to / the labours of a -zealou6 Bishop, "a man .'of ~: order,, method, and business.: .talent; . I : : ■: : succeed to the work of the pioneer bishops . : - and-' priests of 'the oldest New -Zealand. See; I. build upon their, foundation; I ' .if..breathe.-;the air of the- heights up: which .;;; & they , struggled in toil and; tears, Joaquin - ' Miller sings of an Arab schcik,' who so felt, foir.ihis:'thirsting fellow-men, that he epont his life-digging wells in the desert • sands—and, digging wells, :he, -thirsting, - nied. So .have done thovpipneer .bishops -/ /and; priests ■ of--New 'Zealand'. - They. ha.vo . toilfully dug: wells/ in what was. a spiri- ; ' desert* — fountains,'.springing into 'life eternal—and, /.digging ; wells /they, ; . too,;: thirsting died, and passed boyond : • .to .the, Beatitude'that awaits those who ... hunger and thirst after justice. In sue- ' ceeding'to their labours, it is a joy to me, • . to knot? that I am wafted - to my work by a breezo'of blessings and good wishes. / . May these;circle me around about on my . distant -way, and in-the -land I'm goinsr ;to! But, whatever may.botide there shall ■ not pass, from my; grateful soul precious . .memory of the caressing. kindness of:the' many.. loving. Irish hearts that have . /:. gathered- around me on my consecration