Requiem Mass for Rev. Father Butler
A Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Rev. Father Thomas Ambrose Butler, the poet priest of the West, was celebrated Wednesday week [Sept 8, 1897] at St. Cronan's Catholic Church. The Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father G. D. Power with Rev. Father N. Orfei, deacon; Rev. Father J. J. McGlynn, subdeacon; and Rev. D. J. Lavery, master of ceremonies. The sermon was preached by Rev. Father P. B. Cahill, of Macon, Mo., a life long and ardent admirer of the deceased. It was an eloquent and touching tribute to the talents and virtues of the dead poet priest. Among those who attended the services and united their prayers for the repose of the dead man's soul were the Reverend Fathers Fenlon, Tallon, Tuohy. McCaffry, Shea, O'Loughlin, Connolly, James O'Brien, Lyons, Hoffman, Dooley, Wynne, Head, Long, Casey, O'Rourke, Erasmans, C. P. Gavin, Watson, Kane and Granville. Mass was sung by the Christian Brothers' choir under the direction of Brother Felix.
In his sermon Father Cahill dwelt upon his first meeting with the dead priest. He gave a brief sketch of his life, and in that connection said: "Father Butler was born in Ireland of respectable parentage. He came from the middle classes, where God generally looks for his priesthood. Piety and virtue were not wanting, as we shall see in the training of the youth destined for God's altar. His education was begun in the parish school of Knockabella. From there he went to Dublin. He attended the schools of the Christian Bros., where he was thoroughly grounded in English literature and science. When the Catholic University of Ireland was opened by Cardinal Newman, young Butler was the first to enroll his name upon the rosters. Father Butler made his ecclesiastical studies in the celebrated college of Maynooth, was a classmate of Archbishop Walsh, Dublin, and a distinguished student, and when inquiring of us for his confrere and fellow diocesan, he said of Father Butler: 'Tom was a brilliant boy.' For a number of years he was rector of St. John's and then St. James' Church. In 1881 he founded St. Cronan's Church and remained its pastor until his death. St. Cronan's Church's Parish Schools and Pastoral residences are standing monuments of his piety and zeal, whilst Butler City, Kansas, where he planted a colony, attest his philanthropy for his kind, removing them from the shuns of the cities to God's broad acres on the prairies. You, his people, won't forget him in your prayers, and particularly when you assist in this Church at the Holy Sacrifice, where thousands of time his hands were raised on that altar in Oblation for you and yours. Have his picture in your houses; his beautiful poems wherein he sang well of his adopted country (America), yet never forgot Innisfail, the land of his birth, for which if it were to profit anything, he would freely give his life. The historian of the diocese, when recounting the actions and deeds of the pioneer priests of St. Louis diocese, can't pass over lightly the latest urn closed in the priests' lot in Calvary Cemetery. And we bespeak a bright page in that history of Rev. Thomas Ambrose Butler, the Soggarth Aroon of St. Cronan's, the well beloved of his fellow priests, the poet priest of Missouri, if not of the West, the gentleman, the scholar, the saint, the dearest friend ever we knew or expect to know on this earth. May his soul rest in peace, Amen!" Taken from the Western Watchman, and reprinted in THE NEWS, Blaine, Pottawatomie County, KS. Nov. 5, 1897, Vol. 1, #9.
More information on Fr. Butler, and his celebrated book "The State of Kansas and Irish Immigration" can be found at:
https://people.creighton.edu/~dsm09594/Butler.html
A Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Rev. Father Thomas Ambrose Butler, the poet priest of the West, was celebrated Wednesday week [Sept 8, 1897] at St. Cronan's Catholic Church. The Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father G. D. Power with Rev. Father N. Orfei, deacon; Rev. Father J. J. McGlynn, subdeacon; and Rev. D. J. Lavery, master of ceremonies. The sermon was preached by Rev. Father P. B. Cahill, of Macon, Mo., a life long and ardent admirer of the deceased. It was an eloquent and touching tribute to the talents and virtues of the dead poet priest. Among those who attended the services and united their prayers for the repose of the dead man's soul were the Reverend Fathers Fenlon, Tallon, Tuohy. McCaffry, Shea, O'Loughlin, Connolly, James O'Brien, Lyons, Hoffman, Dooley, Wynne, Head, Long, Casey, O'Rourke, Erasmans, C. P. Gavin, Watson, Kane and Granville. Mass was sung by the Christian Brothers' choir under the direction of Brother Felix.
In his sermon Father Cahill dwelt upon his first meeting with the dead priest. He gave a brief sketch of his life, and in that connection said: "Father Butler was born in Ireland of respectable parentage. He came from the middle classes, where God generally looks for his priesthood. Piety and virtue were not wanting, as we shall see in the training of the youth destined for God's altar. His education was begun in the parish school of Knockabella. From there he went to Dublin. He attended the schools of the Christian Bros., where he was thoroughly grounded in English literature and science. When the Catholic University of Ireland was opened by Cardinal Newman, young Butler was the first to enroll his name upon the rosters. Father Butler made his ecclesiastical studies in the celebrated college of Maynooth, was a classmate of Archbishop Walsh, Dublin, and a distinguished student, and when inquiring of us for his confrere and fellow diocesan, he said of Father Butler: 'Tom was a brilliant boy.' For a number of years he was rector of St. John's and then St. James' Church. In 1881 he founded St. Cronan's Church and remained its pastor until his death. St. Cronan's Church's Parish Schools and Pastoral residences are standing monuments of his piety and zeal, whilst Butler City, Kansas, where he planted a colony, attest his philanthropy for his kind, removing them from the shuns of the cities to God's broad acres on the prairies. You, his people, won't forget him in your prayers, and particularly when you assist in this Church at the Holy Sacrifice, where thousands of time his hands were raised on that altar in Oblation for you and yours. Have his picture in your houses; his beautiful poems wherein he sang well of his adopted country (America), yet never forgot Innisfail, the land of his birth, for which if it were to profit anything, he would freely give his life. The historian of the diocese, when recounting the actions and deeds of the pioneer priests of St. Louis diocese, can't pass over lightly the latest urn closed in the priests' lot in Calvary Cemetery. And we bespeak a bright page in that history of Rev. Thomas Ambrose Butler, the Soggarth Aroon of St. Cronan's, the well beloved of his fellow priests, the poet priest of Missouri, if not of the West, the gentleman, the scholar, the saint, the dearest friend ever we knew or expect to know on this earth. May his soul rest in peace, Amen!" Taken from the Western Watchman, and reprinted in THE NEWS, Blaine, Pottawatomie County, KS. Nov. 5, 1897, Vol. 1, #9.
More information on Fr. Butler, and his celebrated book "The State of Kansas and Irish Immigration" can be found at:
https://people.creighton.edu/~dsm09594/Butler.html
Requiem Mass for Rev. Father Butler
A Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Rev. Father Thomas Ambrose Butler, the poet priest of the West, was celebrated Wednesday week [Sept 8, 1897] at St. Cronan's Catholic Church. The Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father G. D. Power with Rev. Father N. Orfei, deacon; Rev. Father J. J. McGlynn, subdeacon; and Rev. D. J. Lavery, master of ceremonies. The sermon was preached by Rev. Father P. B. Cahill, of Macon, Mo., a life long and ardent admirer of the deceased. It was an eloquent and touching tribute to the talents and virtues of the dead poet priest. Among those who attended the services and united their prayers for the repose of the dead man's soul were the Reverend Fathers Fenlon, Tallon, Tuohy. McCaffry, Shea, O'Loughlin, Connolly, James O'Brien, Lyons, Hoffman, Dooley, Wynne, Head, Long, Casey, O'Rourke, Erasmans, C. P. Gavin, Watson, Kane and Granville. Mass was sung by the Christian Brothers' choir under the direction of Brother Felix.
In his sermon Father Cahill dwelt upon his first meeting with the dead priest. He gave a brief sketch of his life, and in that connection said: "Father Butler was born in Ireland of respectable parentage. He came from the middle classes, where God generally looks for his priesthood. Piety and virtue were not wanting, as we shall see in the training of the youth destined for God's altar. His education was begun in the parish school of Knockabella. From there he went to Dublin. He attended the schools of the Christian Bros., where he was thoroughly grounded in English literature and science. When the Catholic University of Ireland was opened by Cardinal Newman, young Butler was the first to enroll his name upon the rosters. Father Butler made his ecclesiastical studies in the celebrated college of Maynooth, was a classmate of Archbishop Walsh, Dublin, and a distinguished student, and when inquiring of us for his confrere and fellow diocesan, he said of Father Butler: 'Tom was a brilliant boy.' For a number of years he was rector of St. John's and then St. James' Church. In 1881 he founded St. Cronan's Church and remained its pastor until his death. St. Cronan's Church's Parish Schools and Pastoral residences are standing monuments of his piety and zeal, whilst Butler City, Kansas, where he planted a colony, attest his philanthropy for his kind, removing them from the shuns of the cities to God's broad acres on the prairies. You, his people, won't forget him in your prayers, and particularly when you assist in this Church at the Holy Sacrifice, where thousands of time his hands were raised on that altar in Oblation for you and yours. Have his picture in your houses; his beautiful poems wherein he sang well of his adopted country (America), yet never forgot Innisfail, the land of his birth, for which if it were to profit anything, he would freely give his life. The historian of the diocese, when recounting the actions and deeds of the pioneer priests of St. Louis diocese, can't pass over lightly the latest urn closed in the priests' lot in Calvary Cemetery. And we bespeak a bright page in that history of Rev. Thomas Ambrose Butler, the Soggarth Aroon of St. Cronan's, the well beloved of his fellow priests, the poet priest of Missouri, if not of the West, the gentleman, the scholar, the saint, the dearest friend ever we knew or expect to know on this earth. May his soul rest in peace, Amen!" Taken from the Western Watchman, and reprinted in THE NEWS, Blaine, Pottawatomie County, KS. Nov. 5, 1897, Vol. 1, #9.
More information on Fr. Butler, and his celebrated book "The State of Kansas and Irish Immigration" can be found at:
https://people.creighton.edu/~dsm09594/Butler.html
A Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Rev. Father Thomas Ambrose Butler, the poet priest of the West, was celebrated Wednesday week [Sept 8, 1897] at St. Cronan's Catholic Church. The Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father G. D. Power with Rev. Father N. Orfei, deacon; Rev. Father J. J. McGlynn, subdeacon; and Rev. D. J. Lavery, master of ceremonies. The sermon was preached by Rev. Father P. B. Cahill, of Macon, Mo., a life long and ardent admirer of the deceased. It was an eloquent and touching tribute to the talents and virtues of the dead poet priest. Among those who attended the services and united their prayers for the repose of the dead man's soul were the Reverend Fathers Fenlon, Tallon, Tuohy. McCaffry, Shea, O'Loughlin, Connolly, James O'Brien, Lyons, Hoffman, Dooley, Wynne, Head, Long, Casey, O'Rourke, Erasmans, C. P. Gavin, Watson, Kane and Granville. Mass was sung by the Christian Brothers' choir under the direction of Brother Felix.
In his sermon Father Cahill dwelt upon his first meeting with the dead priest. He gave a brief sketch of his life, and in that connection said: "Father Butler was born in Ireland of respectable parentage. He came from the middle classes, where God generally looks for his priesthood. Piety and virtue were not wanting, as we shall see in the training of the youth destined for God's altar. His education was begun in the parish school of Knockabella. From there he went to Dublin. He attended the schools of the Christian Bros., where he was thoroughly grounded in English literature and science. When the Catholic University of Ireland was opened by Cardinal Newman, young Butler was the first to enroll his name upon the rosters. Father Butler made his ecclesiastical studies in the celebrated college of Maynooth, was a classmate of Archbishop Walsh, Dublin, and a distinguished student, and when inquiring of us for his confrere and fellow diocesan, he said of Father Butler: 'Tom was a brilliant boy.' For a number of years he was rector of St. John's and then St. James' Church. In 1881 he founded St. Cronan's Church and remained its pastor until his death. St. Cronan's Church's Parish Schools and Pastoral residences are standing monuments of his piety and zeal, whilst Butler City, Kansas, where he planted a colony, attest his philanthropy for his kind, removing them from the shuns of the cities to God's broad acres on the prairies. You, his people, won't forget him in your prayers, and particularly when you assist in this Church at the Holy Sacrifice, where thousands of time his hands were raised on that altar in Oblation for you and yours. Have his picture in your houses; his beautiful poems wherein he sang well of his adopted country (America), yet never forgot Innisfail, the land of his birth, for which if it were to profit anything, he would freely give his life. The historian of the diocese, when recounting the actions and deeds of the pioneer priests of St. Louis diocese, can't pass over lightly the latest urn closed in the priests' lot in Calvary Cemetery. And we bespeak a bright page in that history of Rev. Thomas Ambrose Butler, the Soggarth Aroon of St. Cronan's, the well beloved of his fellow priests, the poet priest of Missouri, if not of the West, the gentleman, the scholar, the saint, the dearest friend ever we knew or expect to know on this earth. May his soul rest in peace, Amen!" Taken from the Western Watchman, and reprinted in THE NEWS, Blaine, Pottawatomie County, KS. Nov. 5, 1897, Vol. 1, #9.
More information on Fr. Butler, and his celebrated book "The State of Kansas and Irish Immigration" can be found at:
https://people.creighton.edu/~dsm09594/Butler.html
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