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earned rest from her administrative duties but was obliged 29 to resume office in 1871. Now, as before in her role as adrninistrator or the affairs of the community, she displayed a keeness of discerrunent and an ad~ptation of means to the end, while ·always there was the sam,e compass of wind the same. good sense. Ever cheerful, even when a loser, she served as a constant source of inspiration to those aro,~.nd her. Her overwhelming earnestness, and the spirit she infused into all with whom she came in contact, .largely contributed to the perpetuation in the Auckland community of the real spirit of Catherine. ticAuley. From Mother Cecilia hel~ that should subjects imbibed the (1) Christlike spirit animate the approach to, and the sol uti ::m of, the problems connected with the poor, the suffering, and the neglected of humanity. J?or Maori and vlhi te alilce, she had the vvorcl of' personal appeal and inspiration, which particularly suited each case, her exhortations assuming the form surest to impress the soul she desired to reach. Having fully demonstrated by her life, (2) what charity means, what service means, what true progress means, her owing heart poured out its last words of hope and consolation on November 25th, ·1878. During the two days that her remains lay in state in the convent chapel. she had loved so well, (3) crowds wllom she 1 • Gately. op. cit. p~e 5. 2. Pamphlet C. '1. 1 • S. t~elbourne. Sisters of Mercy - Centenax•y 3. "Zealand· u (G lt ) 1931-W.J. Lockington la S.J. :rou er Nov.18, 1937.
had taught as well as numbers of non-Catholics whom she had befriended, carue to pay her their last respects. After Requiem Mass she was borne by ten Sisters to her last 30 resting place in Mount st. Mary's Cemetery. (1). If, as scientists tell us 1 not a leaf falls to the ground, not a pebble rolls upon the shore without in some 1:1easure affecting the harmony of the universe, what trer;1endous forces must have been put in motion, changing the cowardice of weru{ness into strength of endeavour, rounding irnrnature impulse into the shapeliness of fixed purpose and keeping alive the fire of prayerful devotion i~ the dark places of life, by the union of faith and good works which marked the earthly career or lilother Cecilia! ( 2). FOUNJJATIONS SCHOOLfi. ST. EAR~~-PONSONBY: In a small wooden building, st. Patrick Is' Hobson Street' Aucl
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