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Whether it opens or not next year depends upon you. It shall open and be in charge of some well known and recognized teaching Sisterhood in this State, if every earner in the parish will pledge some financial aid, monthly, for the material support of the Sisters. If this letter fails in winning your active support in this matter, then be it known to you that all of the property with the exception of the lot or lots on which the Church stands will be taxed, amounting to $200.00 or $250.00 a year, because it was the school and the playground when used as such that exempted this property from taxation. If the taxes cannot be met then the property will certainly be sold. Let us first face these facts, then we may begin to do business and get somewhere.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=252,423,1272,39" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-6", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "If you fail to realize the necessity for the existence of flourishing private or parochial schools in this age of mental and moral wrecks, you certainly are not in touch with the current religious thought. If you deny that the training of all the faculties of the child must go hand in hand with the developing of the intellect, to fashion men and women possessing the highest ideals and the noblest instincts of manhood and womanhood, you are blind to the everyday experience of the average man and woman. You are in opposition to Catholic sentiment and Catholic teaching. You are running counter to the centuries-old experience of that Church to which you have the high honor to belong, for She has at all times and in all places expressly demanded that the secular education of her children be not divorced from their religious education. It is only in private or parochial schools that you find this system of education. Therefore, a parochial school is necessary.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=255,959,1311,38" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-7", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The Necessity of Supporting It:", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=140,1596,717,34" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-8", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "I have very little time and less inclination to discuss at length the various objections or excuses urged against general support of the Parochial School, for all of them are of the flimsiest nature, hardly worth the passing thought of a well balanced mind. However, the following paragraphs will disclose the selfish hollowness of any and every excuse advanced to escape the obligation of school support, penury alone excepted.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=256,1671,1325,32" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-9", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "The Catholic children in America today will be the Catholic men and women of America tomorrow. As the Catholic children are today, so will the Church in America be tomorrow, humanly speaking. Where will Catholic children learn respect, love and loyalty for all things Catholic, if not in the Parochial School? Is it too much to request you to help in a financial way to resuscitate the Parochial school and place it upon a solid and permanent foundation? It can be done at small cost to you if everyone will help. Has posterity no claims upon you? Is the future of Catholicity in Roseburg no concern of yours?", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=256,1971,1352,32" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-10", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "No man can say with any show of reason that responsibility for Catholic education rests upon him only insofar as the education of his own children is concerned. No man can say that once his own children are educated, his responsibility for Catholic education in general ceases. No man need say that the burden of Catholic education should rest entirely on the shoulders of Catholic parents. No, these statements are all false, as false as the father of lies", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=253,2376,1423,37" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-11", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Education himself and utterly unworthy of any man or woman who claims to possess even one spark of the generous warmth of Christian love.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2001,267,1464,40" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-12", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Charity is not confined to one's own fireside. No, it goes beyond the four posts of the dwelling house. It reaches out into the world of men and women. It helps when help is needed. It directs when direction is needed. It leads when leading is needed. Assuredly the guiding of little children to Him who said \"Suffer little children to come to me and forbid them not\" repays the expenditure entailed, a hundred-fold.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2117,422,1397,39" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-13", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Parents with children to educate, the immediate beneficiaries of the parochial school, naturally should be willing to sacrifice more financially than other members of the parish not so fortunately blessed, but that the whole burden of school support should fall on them is ridiculous, absurd and palpably unjust.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2114,734,1442,38" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-14", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "A little but a real love of God, a slight remembrance of HIS love and sacrifice would make each of us do our share towards making possible the reopening of the Parochial school. How few of us there are who could not afford to contribute four, five, ten or fifteen cents a day towards the education of the little ones of God, if we would but cut out some of the very foolish and harmful ways of spending money?", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2117,971,1406,38" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-15", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "We can spend five cents a day and not miss it to read about Reggy Joyce and her millionaire husbands. Should we find it difficult to lay less aside for the infinitely superior and nobler purpose of educating children mentally and morally? Suppose it hurts to give for this purpose? After all, what is Christianity without sacrifice? A myth. What is Catholicity without sacrifice? A sham.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2120,1279,1369,37" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-16", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "What is your sacrifice in comparison with that made by educated Sisters who gladly give up all the joys of life to spend their best years in educating your children, or the children of your neighbor? All they ask from you is just enough to keep body and soul together. By the Grace of God and the closest economy they live and clothe themselves on thirty-five or forty dollars a month. If they did not respond to the call of God they could hold with distinction the highest positions in the land. Yet they are willing to come among you to educate your children and fit them for the battle of life. They teach so that pupils may be fitted to attain their eternal destiny as well as their temporal end without detriment to either. Surely selfishness has not taken such possession of your soul that you can look upon the heavy sacrifices made by others for conscience sake and for the greater honor and glory of God without being moved to help a particle.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2124,1580,1450,33" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-17", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "What are you willing to contribute towards the support of the Sisters who will teach in the school next year? It is not possible even to begin to ask them to teach here until word is received from you, so that it may be definitely known whether or not the parish will support them. How much a month can you conscientiously offer for this worthy object? You will find inclosed a pledge card which kindly fill in and return at your earliest convenience. Your pledge will be redeemable on August 1st, 1925.", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2127,2174,1395,32" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-18", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Wishing you every good wish and blessing, I am,", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2130,2506,1069,34" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-19", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "Sincerely yours", "format": "text/plain" }, "target": "https://www.baimages.ie/iiif/2/TcapuchinsTpapers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-statesT232494.jpg/full/max/0/default.jpg/canvas/1#xywh=2762,2615,351,35" }, { "id": "https://mymanifests.com/catholicarchives/annotations/capuchins/papers-of-the-irish-capuchin-mission-in-the-united-states/232494/p01.json#anno-20", "type": "Annotation", "motivation": "supplementing", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "N. 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Bernard Clery OFM Cap. to the parishioners of St. Joseph’s in Roseburg, Oregon. The letter focuses on the sudden closure of the local parochial school, the financial challenges threatening its future, and an urgent appeal to the congregation for financial pledges to support a teaching Sisterhood." ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Repository" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Irish Capuchin Archives" ] } }, { "label": { "en": [ "Context" ] }, "value": { "en": [ "Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Missionary Correspondence > Other Correspondence" ] } } ], "summary": { "en": [ "Circular letter from Fr. Bernard Clery OFM Cap. to the parishioners of St. Joseph’s in Roseburg, Oregon. 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