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Friday Following Iisue For Success of Council DENViR CATHOUC Bishops of the United MO.MI Catholics lo the U.S. to the coubcU’s great work of foil purpose of'the coming council, it was noted that the U.S ftates have issued an ap Join in "a novena of prayer evangelical renewal witUn the the role of the Bishops of the Church has numerous strengths peal for prayers for them and penance, to be carried out Church.” U.S. in the council, and tbe duty —including those that have Non-Catholic Christians were of Catholics to deepen their spir selves ana all other partici in all the parishes, schools, and come from living and growing asked to pray to the Holy Spirit it of charity toward their separ in an atmosphere of religious REGISTER pants in the Second Vatican religious houses of this coun that He will "enlighten and ated brethren. (Turn to Page 2) VOL LVIl. No. 2 Thursday, AugusI 23, 1962 DENVER, COLORADO Council. The request was try” on the days inxnediately made in the Hierarchy’s guide the ecumenical council so The Bishops, noting that tbe preceding the council. that it may become an instru 1962 annual statement, and 20 previous councils were re The liteatiaa of the aovena ment for the promotion of Chris sponses to immediate crises, it was directed at the na will be **that God may pour tian unity according to the mind said that “while certain extern tion’s entire Christian com- forth His abonadlBg grace on of Christ.” al conditions and pressures lend munit^—Catholics and oth our Holy Fatheri on all the FU' special timeliness to the calling ers alike. jthers of the cotmcil, and par- THE BISHOPS' state|ment ex of a council now, yet our Holy Tbe "Statement on the Ecu-|ticuJarly oa the Bishops of this plained the nature of the Father has repeat^Iy insisted menical Council” asked the 43,-1 country, that none may fail in Church, the background and that these are not the main rea sons for the approaching one.” “ Perhaps it Is not too much to say,” they said, “that the coming council is unique in this, that its direct and conscious purpose is tbe internal renewal of the Church.” ' In this renewal of the Church’s life, they continued, the Bishops of the U.S. hope to make specif ic contributions. They warned that it would be incorrect to view tbe Bishops as mere del egates of the American Church. The Bishops, they noted, may be expected to bring to the coun cil the benefit of their exper ience and discernment as reli gious leaders in their own lands. The American Hierarchy, they Sf. Fraacis’ llMpItal t* n lm § Cm hnnh $prlm§g 7$ Yom* said, will be witpesses to the remarkable growth of the Sf. Framis\ Colorado Springi Church in the U.S. and to its generally flourishing condition The Bish(^s observed that U.S. Catholics “bear the im print of our past.” Hospital to Observe Jubilee THIS IMPRINT, they said, is By Ethel W. J ohnston than 50 patients who were lodg the friendship and generositytof responsibility of a growing load that “of a Church which was This September will mark ed in a small adobe bouse. the people of Colorado Spriojjs. of patients week in and week bom and has grown to maturity the diamond jubilee of St. It was soon even more crowd With foresight, the S is te rs ^ out. It meant a working day in an atmosphere not always ed by the victims of a new allied that no rallroeu hospl^ which began at midnight friendly; which has had to Francis’ hospital in Colo rado Springs. railroad disaster. And it was could adequately meet the n e ^ s struggle almost every step of then that the Sisters found that of the new dty, and they deddH IT MEANT leaving two of the way to produce the 'institu The observance will be the doors of the Midland hos to open their own hospital oa the Sisters in charge of the pa tions necessary for its prese'r opened by a Solemn Mass pital were too narrow to let a hill east of the town. tients while the other two r ^ e Church untf IKucfery uf Anuivursory Porlfh celebrated in the presences of vation and development; whose any stretchers through. This meant almost superhu in a borrowed wagon through Father Roy Fi^no has been pastor et The parish will mark the 75th anniversary people are sprung from ances Archbishop Urban J. Vehr and From the beginning, St. Fran man effort and courage, for town and countryside making St. Augustine’s parish, Brighton, since IMS. of its founding at a Solemn Mass on Sept. 11. tors, many of whom, a few gen Bishop David M. Maloney in they were strangers, without friends an(l enlisting financial Under his leadenhip the conveat and rectory In the background of the picture are the cis hospital was built on faith - erations ago, came to this coun the Gothic chapel in the east faith in God and faith in funds, and tied down by the aid. have been renovaM and a classroom build- parish chnrch and rrclory. try unlettered and in great pov wing of the hospital. But they made the effort, and ing and auditorium have been constructed. erty." The celebrant will be the in tbe spring of 1888 St. Fran But despite these limitations. Very Rev. Monsignor Robert cis’ hospital opened its doors. JNum of fbanksgiving Sojpf* II Hoffman, pastor of St. Mary’s Almost immediately It, too, was . > ---------------- ----------- --------- --- — -------- church, Colorado Springs, whose inadequate, and within another parish includes the hospital. Broomfield ^School year the first of many addi Burse Receives The Very Rev. Monsignor Wil tions was built Gifts of $178 liam J. Monahan of Denver will The pattern has not varied be the deacon, and the Rev. much. Today St. Francis hos Parish in Brighton A total of $178 was given (his To Open in 1963 Robert A. Banigan, pastor of pital has grown to the size of past week by nine contributors St. Leo’s church, Denver, will 168 beds, and can boast of the to raise the St. Jude Burse for A community of nuns has agreed to staff the Brooiufield be subdeacon. The Rev. Walter parish school and plans are being made to open four dassrooms most modem and ade the education of future' priests R. Jaeger, chaplain of Mount quate equipment available. to $1,723.04. in September, 1963, Father George L. Weibold, pastor of Nativity St. Francis, Colorado Springs, of Our Lord parish, has announced. To Note 75th Jubilee Donors from Denver includ will' act as master of ceremon FOR MANY yean the sight ed: A.N., $5; Mrs. $5: Construction of four additional classrooms will begin in Jan first pastor of St. Augustine’s. ilies, Father Howlett secured a ies. of two Franciscan Sisters going On Tuesday, Sept. 11, St. Au $1; J.G.T., $30; M.B., uary, Father Weibel said, and the work will be completed in time gustine’s parish,' Brighton, Will In fact he beclime the first res- donation of land from D. F. The Rev. John Harley Schmitt from door to door was a fami $20; J.M., $100; iR.G.O., $10; for the opening of school in the fall of 1963. The new addition will observe Its 7Sth anniversary. A ideit priest in northeastern Carmichael for a church site. pastor of All Saint’s church, liar one to the people of Col E.C.G., $5; and M.A.M., $2. form tbe beginning of a 12-classroom wing, which added to the Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving Colorado outside of Denver. It was located on the corner Denver, will deliver the sermon. orado Springs. Nowadays their Other donors were Mr. and present four classrooms wilh become a 16-classroom school. will be celcibrated in the pres Uniting the 12 Catholic fam of Third and Bush. The building method of obtaining aid has Mrs. R.L., who contributed AN INVITATIONAL banquet Mother Mary Baptista, Provincial of the Sisters of Mercy of was completed in August, 1888, changed somewhat but not the ence of Archbishop Urban J. $7.50 in behalf of the Monsignor for the clergy following the Mass the Union, whose mother house is in Omaha, Neb., has informed Vehr at 5 p.m. at a cost of $1,500. The build spirit in which'it is asked or Matthew Smith Burse. is being planned. Among the in the Broomfield pastor that the community would provide teach ing is still in use, now as a given. ' Tbe celebrant of the Mass will In addition, the burse of St. vited guests will be Father Bani ing Sisters for the parish’s existing four-classroom school. be Father Charles Brown, the Report Made funeral chapel. The diamond jubhiee is no end Francis of Assisi parish, Castle gan, Father Schmitt, and Father The school, which was completed in December of I960, is now first native son of the foighton being used for the weekly school of religion classes for some 350 In itself. The Sisters hope for In those early days. Father Rock, was increased by $24.15, William Zolp, pastor of St. Mich parish to be ordained a priest On Collection children of tbe parish, the pastor said.

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