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S oh tffn g St. M ar/s Parish, Littleton, he Dediration of Its New Ct

Altar Is Beautiful Focal Point of New Church A huge bronze baldachino, the hanging canopy over the main altar, is suspended bell-like and supported by four wood laminated pillars, the same as are used in the rest of the new St. M ary church in Littleton. A hand-carved wooden crucifix hangs above the main tdtar, upon which the Eucharistic God and King is enthroned.

A Supplement to the Denver Catholic Register PAGE TW O THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Tburaday, Sapt. 13, 1962 Dedication of W ew Church Sept. 13 By Dav is Millon The new two-level, $311,- MO St. M ary’s church in Littleton, which is being dedicated Thursday, Sept. 18, by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr, provides four times the seating capacity of the parish’s old house of wor­ ship, which was built in 1901 and accommodated only 250 persons. Auxiliary Bishop David M. Makmey, members of the clergy from throughout the archdiocese, and mem­ bers of the Littleton parish will attend the Mass and dedication ceremonies be­ The emmtpteOem et «te at. Mary’ s eharcfc aatl haH is ginning at 5 p.m. I t e first step fai tke trs a et the partsii Ibat serves the Oftoring the Mass of ded­ Littift— arc* t* a W acre at M tt 8. Prtace street. BaW ication will be the Rt. Rev. at s east af $HMaR the BIMsg scats 1AM persiss. Monsignor Gregory Smith, •a rc the far the first Masses, U PA., V.G., pastor of St. iMiti ta ke ijrs far the 4, Ml FTancis de Sales’ parish, wIm }a a u *c 4 the a U batUt ia IMl, and the schaal haO. and fiH’m er pastor of St. Mary’s, Littleton, from 1928 To Offer Mass to 1932 Father William E. Sie- After Dedication a form er assistant A former pastor ei St. Mary’s pastor at St. Mary’s and parish, LitUetos, the SU. B ev now chaplain at St. Ji^ph ’s Monsignor Gregory Smith, P A . , hospital, Denver, will be V.G., will offer a Stricoin Ma deacon. Subdeacon will be following the dedicatioB at tbe Father Thomas P. Stone, new St. Mary’s churdi, little- pastor of St, Patrick’s par­ ton, Sept. 13. iah, Mintum. In July, IMS, Monsignor Smith was given his first pas­ Bisbop Hubert M. Newell, toral assignment as pashH- ot who was pastor of the Little­ SL Mary’s, littletoa, where be ton parish when he was put through a needed pro­ named Coadjutor Bishop of gram of improvesseats on the Qieyemie in 1947, will parish property and installed a pnatit the sermon at the large pipe orgaa in the church. deAcation Mass. He served as pastor until 1S32

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He is pllasing to «fod who I To be a Christian is the great strives to please God.— St. Ber-| thing, not merely to seem one.— nard of Clairvaux (1091-1153). fSt. Jerome (345-430).

Best Wishes to Feather McCallin and the Parishioners of St. Mary’s Parish U fo o d la w /L Spacious fitforlor o# Mmm^Chureh M ore thaa 1,000 persona can be strength, symboUxed la a tasteful combina­ modnted la the spacious Interior of new St. tion o f oak and bronie in the design and J>IawiUL ShopL M ary's church, UUlcton. Cm citom i in design, fnmishiags, lead simplicity and good taste so Woodlown Shopping Center Littleton, Colorado the church has seating facilities la both the that the church is an outstanding example of north and sonlh traascpts. Permanency and beaaty and modesty. Phone PY 4-0267 Archbishop to Dedicate New Church Sept. 73 Heartiest Congratulations (Continued From Page 2 ) baldachino is suspended The new church is located over the altar from four and at 6833 S. Prince street, wood laminated arches, about one mile south of the symbolic of the covered Sincere Best Wishes old parish plant. The ground ciborium. From the center floor contains a social hall of the baldachino hangs the to and cafeteria, and the up­ crucifix. per level is occupied by the Trimmed Father McCallin church, which seats 1,000 Whli Limestone worshippers. The brick exterior of the Father Prose The new church, which church is trimmed with contains 22,400 square feet limestone, and the church and the Parishioners of space, stands on a 20 acre is topped with a copper site commanding a panor­ spire and cross. Eight of the am ic view of the mountains. glued laminated trusses Acquisiticm of the tract, on support the roof. There are S. Prince avenue, four no pillars in the church. Church of Saint Mary Parish blocks south of Ridge road, The narthex of the was the largest piece of church, on the interior, fea­ on the Dedication of Your ^ou nd bought for any par­ tures exposed brick walls ish in the archdiocese of and natural wood paneling, Beautiful New Church Denver. It was acquired in an acoustical tile ceiling, December, 1959. Many par­ and terrazzo floors. ishes have only five-acre The nave of the church tracts. has vinyl asbestos floor­ In Form ing, and the interior walls O f Cress are of face brick. The Directors, Officers and Staff of Built in the form of a The church’s 12 colored cross, the church -has glass windows were exe­ double rows of pews in the cuted by Earl Frazier of north and south transepts Denver. The glass-mosaic facing each other instead technique — called the ^^^rcipultoe C^ount^ of facing the front, like the epoxy glue process—util­ main seating in the center izes glass fragments of dif­ aisle. This arrangement al­ ferent sizes and shapes in­ lows the altar to be seen laid in a glass frame. cjCilt(eton, C^oforudo ifrom three sides. MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION The altar is of oak, and the large hammered-brass

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Littleton, Colorado Walter L. Meyer, Pres. SU 9-9186 f m----- Thttradcy, Sept. 13, 1942 TMI DENVEIt CATHOLIC REGISTER PAGE FIVE 20-Acre Site Wifi House New Parish Plant Acquisition of the 29-acre significant for two reasons. complete transfer of the lo e ite is four blocks south ofi west where it paralieis the site on which the new St. P n ^ r t y for most parishes cation of the parish plant B ioge road on Prince ave­ Denver and B io Grande Mary church in Littleton is totals about fiv e acres; this The land, secured from nue. railroad right of way and erected was first announced purchase involved 20 acres, William K. Barr, is south ofj Ihe piece of ground ex­ U.S. Highway 85. by Archbishop Urban J. the largest piece of ground the city of Littleton and is tends Mong Prince avenue < On a hill south of Lee Vehr Dec. 31, 1959. This more centrally located with for 790 feet and 1,250 to the (Turn to Page 6) i site eventually will house bought for any archdioce­ in the present boundaries, the new plant for St. M ary’s san parish. which remain unchanged. parish. The transaction, more­ Used originally for the The transfer of title was over, was the prelude to the growing of wheat, the prop- Best Wishes t To t Father McCcUlin, Father Prose and Members of St. Mary’s Parish

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Gffwff*, iH«rlr«r of New Site Father Frederick D. McCaHin (at right), pastor of St. MaiT’a, Lfttieton, directed the erection of this beautiful grotto and marker in March, 1960, three months after the parish ac- o u ir^ a 20-acre site on which the new St. M ary church was congratulation Ts built. At the left is Father William Slevers, form er assistant pastor at St. M ary’s and now chaplain at St. Joseph’s hospi­ FATHER McCALLIN - FATHER PROSE tal, Denver. The site, one half mile south of old St. Mary’s church, represents the largest piece of ground bought for any AND MEMBERS parish in the archdiocese. Eventually the complete parish plant will be transferred to this location. of Former Parish Hall ST. MARY'S PARISH Is Now Part of School St. Mary’s old parish hall years later it was converted J. B. AAARTINA MOSAIC CO. min Littleton, completed min into Hse for classrooms. “Fine Terrazzo Since 1921“ 1950, had to give way in Now serving as part of 1956 to the parish’s boom­ the school, the building is 2075 Bryant St. G E 3-6343 ing school enrollment. directly opposite the old St. For years the hall was a I^nver, Colo. dream of parishioners. Mary (diurch, 186 N. Nev­ Plans foi- the hall were first ada avenue. made in 1946 during the pas­ torate of Father (now Bish- (^) Hubert M. Newell. (An Congratutations to . ample-size hall is included in the n e w St. M ary Father McCallin, Father Prose ancJ Members of church.) A donation of 85,006 was ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH - LITTLETON made in 1946 by the W. R.' Heckethom family to the Father McCallin Chose the Finest... parish building fund. P re­ We Are Proud to Have Furnished and Installed the viously members of the family had presented the ORGAN plot of ground across from IN THE NEW the old St. M ary church on LOWREY which the proposed hall was ST. MARY’S CHURCH to be constructed In August, 1949, Father Frederick D. MiK^Iallin, who LEN JHcEWEN MUSIC CO. became pastor when Father N ew ^ was named Coadju­ (MR. A MRS. MUSIC) tor Bishop of Cheyenne, an­ nounced the be^nning of construction of the new 2 LOCATIONS parish hall. Built at a cost of about 182,000, the hall was de­ ththvefy signed so tkmt it eooid be Lowrey converted to possible class­ room use in the future. H ie Lincolnwood 25 10323 E. CCHFAX ball was used for the A n i 399-2535 tfme at the annual parish May lf-2L 1950. Six PAGE SIX THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER TkMrsdoy, S«pf. 13, 1962 20-Acre Site Will House New Parish Plant (CotUmued From Page 5) because of the height of city water and sewer dis­ from the school was ano­ is substantially completed Gulch, the property affords the ground, which ^nds trict, the property can be ther of the reasons for buy­ it is anticipated that the one a panoramic view, in­ above the valley and the described as improved. It ing a new and larger site. original parish lands and cluding Mt. Evans and the Columbine Country club tO‘ also borders the Ridgewood When a building program the buildings can be sold. foothills. the west. subdivision. Clear of buildings and public thoroughfares, the L a iy * FawilHios Mownfoiw Viww land can be utilized to best Father Frederick D. Mc-i This mountain view advantage. Callin, pastor since 1947,1 PRE5 6 NT should remain unimpaired Since it lies within a new explained that purchase at that time was necessitated SITE by the proximate need fori larger plant facilities and Congratulations the difficulty of obtaining! additional property at the Father McCallin — Father Prose present W. avenue and High street location. The former church, which was built in 1901, LITTLETON LUMBER CO. could accommodate only 250 persons. Elach Sunday, 5250 So. Santa Fe P Y . 8-2531 however, some 4,000 per­ sons attend Mass. This at­ L. W. RINGSTED, MGR. tendance, the fourth largest JIM VOGEL in the archdiocese, required 11 Masses, three of which PAT HALAHAN were offered In the school haU. Parking and playground for the new school, a new addition to the convent, and CONGRATULATIONS TO a new rectory, in addition FATHERS McCALLIN AND PROSE to the church facilities, AND MEMBERS OF eventually will be required for the parish operations. ST. MARY S PARISH Since the property in the vicinity of the present plant is rapidly becoming com­ mercial, the cost of secur­ ing such land was a pro­ hibiting factor. MEW CERAMIC TILE The location also was be­ SITE' AND coming less desirable for residential buildings. ^ B L K S . e a TERRAZZO CONTRACTORS A proposed highway 1485 SO. LIPAN SPruce 7-3091 (along High street) that OF RIDOF RD. would separate the convent

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. V-. r A G £ EIGHT THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER TlMmiay, Sept. 13, IR it Pastor Praises Parishioners for Support by Tithing “Efficient, businesslike, | These are the words Fa- selected to describe fbeland parisli leaders estimate parish. Each wage earner and a great success, ther Frederick McCallin, tithing program of church the year’s needs for current is asked to s m a pledge r* support u s ^ in the parish operating es^nses, caiMtal to fiOBtribute five per cent Congratulationa for the past four years. expenses, and provisions for of M s take-hoBoe pay dur­ The tithing program be­ future growth. ing the year to s u p ^ rt the r and ing used in Littleton is one A goal, based on this es­ parish. that is gaining growing pofi- timate, is set up for par­ flm parishioners are pro­ Beat Wishes ulartty in Catholic parishes ishioners’ contributions dur­ mised that this will be the throughout the nation ing the year. only financial demand made To St. Marias Pttrish Under the plan, all wage to > A ll this has been ac- only rarely cont^. nplished,” Father Mc­ W HAT IS QUESTIONED is EARL FRASER CO. Callin declared, “ without her freedom to assert her moral ijy r calling In expensive ‘ex­ teaching in a world which in­ creasingly tends to acknowledge o d a s l 1439 SO. BANNOCK perts’ to direct fund-rais­ no objective standard. TTI , ing campaigns. The men of 'The hue and cry is raised the parish have done it all when she states her principles PE. 3-3493 themselves." on the holiness and permanence <£tunJbjiA, fill The financial program for of the m arriage bonds, on the for St. Mary’s parish begins evils of contraception and on DENVER, COLO. each year with a planning the m oral necessity of ChrisUai]J I Kill ^duc&ioQ. ™ session in which the priests Bslnttag to Usloiy, the Uer- archy said suppresston of tm- s ra * toeedem has almoot atom’s 5BM Bsipp St. hdgmi with restrlcMag or Semf- img the- right of the Church to littloton CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES teach — “under whatever form FY 4-2595 ■f tyranny, from Caesnrism to FATHER FREDERICK D. McCALLIN ' Rovietlsin." w w w w w » '■ww W W W ' i CoHffratsdMtisns to Father McCallin, i < IMJCSTIC FURnilURC Father Prose, and 4 Members of St. Mary’s 4 CARPtTS 1 DRAPERIES 4 Room Sim 1 HOME fURNttimiGS By Y sfd 4 m 4 WaU to WsU 1 LOW EVERY OAY PRKB Custom Made 4 Installations | VALORE HARDWARE 4 “DOWNTOWN UTTLETON” and Installed 4 2389 W. Main 4 4 2559 W. MAIN i PY. 4-0100 PY. 4-0433 4 4 Thursday, Sept. 13, 1962 THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER PAGE N IN E First to Break 1,000 in School Fnrollment By Edward T. Sm ith Mushrooming housing projects These buildings were con-1 new additions could be made The clouded crystal ball told in the Littleton parish had made strocted in such a fashion that| (T o m to Page 19) planners for the first St. Mary’s the planned ceiling of 100 pu­ Congratulations to school. Littleton, in September, pils out of date before the school 1951, that enrollment would nev ever opened its doors. er rise above. 100. There were 130 boys and girls Congratulations Father AAcCallin and his This September, 11 years after who answered the bell on open­ the school began its first class­ ing day in September, 1951, and es, more than 1,000 boys and these were only youngsters in associates of St. Mary’s girls trooped into the school on the first six. grades. INTERMOUNTAIN ELEaRIC, INC. opening day. By the following year the sev­ Parish on the occasion The school, so modestly enth and eighth grades had been planned, had grown Into by far boomed to 18. INDUSTRIAL — COMMERCtAL the largest in the archdiocese, When school opened in 1959, of the dedication of the the first in the history of area there were 439 boys and girls CONTRACTORS Catholic schools to break the attending classes. Two extra 602 SO. LIPAN PE. 3-7248 beautiful new church 1,0M barrier in enrollment. classrooms had been formed out The original faculty of three of the parish hall, and other DENVER 4, COLO. Sisters of St. Joseph of Caron- sessions were being conducted delet which conducted classes in in various parts of the parish C. C. (C U ff) W EISS RIGG 1951 had grown to a staff of plant. nine Sisters and 11 lay teachers. New houses continued to blos­ The three classrooms of 1951 som throughout the parish. And AUTO SERVICE had expanded to a total of 19 by the Martin company had an­ this year. nounced its plans to build a IMtara Pucilttias plant within the parish boundar­ SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS 6178 SO. RAPP Mrm O p o N u d ies, promising a still further The new school facilities boost in the number of parish­ TO opened this year, besides pro­ ioners. FATHER McCALLIN, FATHER PROSE PY. 4-1881 viding classroom space for the It was clear that something AND fourth and fifth graders, take had to be done about the school some of the strain off existing facilities, and Father Frederick MEMBERS OF ST. MARY'S PARISH facilities by accommodating the McCallin announced plans to school’s remedial reading room construct a new addition to the and the locker rooms for athlet school. CASTLE FURNITURE CO. ic activities. W iM w o o d l A w n s h o p p in g c e n t e r F e w w sig lit (Windermere & Littleton Blvd.) Originally planned for four expanded to five rooms by the PY. 4-3511 time it was put in use in Jan­ uary, 1957. The following sum­ Sincere mer another two-room addition was completed. Good Wishes

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A project known as ’’Opera­ tion Good Reading,” sponsored '' 4? by student leaden at the school, i,- - W ’-v' was featured the past May in the Young Apostles’ report of the twin teen-age magazines. Catholic Boy and CathoBc Gtii. The aim of the project was to promote good reading habits - a i 3 ^ among youths o f the parish and to make good books available to them in the summer vaca­ tion. The pupils in charge of the project selected the best books from the classroom libraries, . THE FOLLOWING FIRMS EXTEND CONGRATULATIONS outfitted them with cards, and installed themselves as librar­ ians to lend the books and to see TO THE CLERGY AND PARISHIONERS OF ST. AAARY'S PARISH that they were returned. The program was a great suc­ cess.- Said one young user of the library: ”lt kept us from HENRI'S JEWEIRY Littleto n LITTLETON GASOLINE letting our brains rust.” Also in full swing at St. 2 Stores Serving Littleton Mary's school is a Junior Great • Soper Service & OIL CO . 2340 W. Main PY. 4-27tt Books program, which gives O pNpCQ 3 Locations to Serve You bright young pu^s a chance to Woodlawn Center PY. 4-4122 stretch their minds by coping 'HOTTEST BRAND GOING" 5727 So. Rapp with some of the world’s great­ est literature. 5718 So. Rapp 1599 W . UtHeton Blvd. The parishioners of the parish Silver Saddle Texaco LHHeton, Colo. are not content arith building 6475 So. .Broadway additions and suppisrlng the Silver Saddle Lodge money for teachers. A great many of them in the past year 4601-11 So. Santa Fo volanteered as teacher-aides. BROOKRIDGE SU. 1-1198 SU. 9-OS81 Under the leadership of Mrs. E. Kramer, they conducted spe­ CHEVRON SERVKE LITTLETON cial classes, such as remedial LEIGH CONGDOM, Owner reading; drilled small groups, 24 Hour Towing Service FLOWER SHOP took over the regular classes on occasions, corrected tests and R IT E LITE 5100 So. Broadway M r. A Mrs. Jesse W . G em homework, kept records, and performM a variety of other SU P PLY CO . SU. 1-0310 2360 W. Main PY. 4-2494 tasks to see that the pupils in St. M ary’s received the best pos- Denver, Colo. slUe education. The principal o f St. M ary’s SUPREME UQUORS scholrk mp ana Cellvery scrvic.. by the Bishops of the United Aak your Itoctoc to caU mm. "Denver’s OUast Flower Shop States. PY B-2S91 and PY B-2592 — Established 1883” Its purpose is to distribute 40 per cent of the annual collection KEystene 4-5397 of the Society for the Propaga­ Y o w g World I tion of the Faith to Archbishops XEMKE'S MARKH 1225 Logon Straet and Bishops of missionary dio­ I.O B K. BLYTH ceses of tte U.S. and its de­ and ' Denver, ColorcHie pendencies. Tbfs A Gifts for Children. It consolidates missionary ac­ RUDY^ GROCERY Fca-Teens A Janien tivities la the U.S.. coordinates riee Deitemy Mea.. Wea. a Pii. RACHAK CABINET them with OsMiolic missions of m w Weto : PY 4-3443 other conatriea uadar general A FIXTURE CO. jurisdiction of an international 4-080B PY, 4-1767 ka, WeocHown Shopping Center board diosea by the Vatican, 1725 W . Harvard WE 4-9205 Littleton, Colorado and operates under the diiec- Uoa—af the National Ca'thdic W elfare Council. T lw rs ^ e y , Saff. 1 3 , 1 M 2 TNC DENVni CATHOUC REGISTER RAGE ELEVEN Two^Story Remodeled House Is Convent for Nine Sisters The large two-story house, dation and is finished with stuc­ in lOSl, when parishioners and that serves as a convent tor co over brick. There are large friends inspect^ the residence. the nine Sisters of St. Joseph rooms on the first floor which The grade school was opened' of Carondelet who are stationed have been turned into a chapel. the same year )»s the convent -at S t Mary’s schoaL U ttleton, refectory, parlar, kitchen, and with six grades and the three was purchased in la si. 'The con­ catnasunity room. On the upper Siater-teaebers were sent from vent was blessed Sept. 22 of the floor are 10 private rooms for the mother house in St. Louis. same year in a private cere­ each one of the Sisters and a Before the opening of t h e mony by Archbishop Urban J guest. sehoot. Sisters of St. Joseph Sf. _ M ary’s Vehr. An asstatanding imk at from Englewood taught vaca­ cling converted the residence The simple but beautiful interior of old St. Mary’s church, At that time only three Sis­ tion school at the parish. Littleton, is shown after its complete redecoration by Father ters resided in the bui'ding, but, on the comer of High and Ne­ vada streets into an attractive Other schools in the Denver McK^alUn in 1949. Bnilt la 1991, the venerable edifice, hallowed since St. Mary's has grown to area taught by the community by aim sat eonntleas Msmes ever the years. Baptisms, weddings, be the largest grade school in and servlceahie convent, with a particularly artistic chapel. are St. Francis de Sales’ grade and funerals, proved too small for the parish, which experi­ the archdiocese, the number has and high schools, St. Liouis’, enced a phenomenal Increase in population, especially since increased to nine. Before the Sisters occu­ Englewood; St. Patrick’s, St WorM War I L The old church eeoid scat only 250 persons and pied the building. It was enlarg­ Catherine’s, and St. James’, all could not accommodate the present 4,006 parishioners in St. Providing high caliber educa­ ed and completely remodeled tion for more than 1,000 pupils in Denver. Mary’s. A new 20-acre site was purchased in 1959 on which inside. It was buUt to provide the new 8311A99 St. Mary’s church was built. of St. Mary’s are Sister Marie for the future needs so no fur­ This year two Sisters of Rene, superior, who teaches ther remodeling has been neces­ St. Joseph are teaching at eighth grade; sary since its opening. Machebeuf high school and are Sister Donna Loretta, seventh An open house was held on residing at St. Patrick’s con­ and eighth grades; Sister Te­ the day following the blessing vent. tr>- resa Agnes, fifth grade; Sister Raymond Therese, fourth and -.■v-'fcTy fifth; Sister Marie Eugenio, fourth; Sister"' M ary Rebecca, Ail for One, One for All first; Sister Mary Socorro, first; Sister Monica Mary, first; and in the Mystical Body Sister Georgianna, who man­ ages the office. “Christ is the head of the members ot the M ystical Body B «dy ot the Church.’* So says at Christ, the Church. D o not This is Sister M arie Rene’s St. Paul. But the Church, like think that only thoae who have second year as superior. There the human body, has other parts received Holy Orders are mem­ are .11 lay teachers at the as w ell as the head. bers of the Body o f Christ, says school. These other parts are called P^>e Piiu XH in tds encycfical. The convent has a stone foun­ members. Or, more specifically. letter on the M ystical Body. THE NEW ENGLANDER They are Its c U e f members. Par through them Christ’9 Congratulations . . . rale as teacher, priesi, and khig is to endure. SKUFCA & SHELTON CO. to Father McCallin, But the Fathers o f the Church taught that the faiUtful, who co­ CUSTOM HOME BUILDERS IN RIDGWOOD His Assistant and the Parishioners operate with the ffierarchy in spreading the Kingdom of God, On the Dedication of St. Mary’s Church occupy an honored place in the Mystical Body. And that, by Congratulates God’s grace, the lowest mem ber can achieve the highest holi­ MASON'S AUTO PARTS ness in the Mystical Body. Fother McCallin and the Parishioners of Sr. Mary s on Complete Line of Auto & Truck Parts, Batteries & Tools AS IN THE human body, 278 R A P P A V E . P Y . 4-1576-7 TE L. M A. 8-3193 again, when one m em ber suf­ the dedication of the new Church fers, all share its pain. And ^ LITTLETON. COLO. CASTLE ROCK. COLO. heatthy members aid the ailing member. That’s one reason the Pontiff • 7000 S. Broadway • PY 8-1335 — PY 4-2553 was so concerned in his letter over the att^ks on and perse Congratulations to St. Mary's cutions of Bishops— the Minds- / zentys, Stepinacs, Fords. But a more important reason was because of the desecration involved. I'w MVtr seen so much. JACOBS' PLUMBING CO. “ T o Bishops, m ore than to rulers of this world, even QUALITY those in supreme authority, REPAIRING & REMODELING should be applied the sentence. -Touch net my anointed mes!” said the Pope. “ F o r Bishops 2005 W. ARBOR Pt. PY. 4-0244 have been anointed by the Holy Spirit.” He said the faithful should re­ ...... ROGER JACOBS vere Bishops as divinely ap­ pointed successors to the Apb^ Ues.

Congrotulations to St. Mary's Parish Shown above It the-fwo-ttory Cotenlol (one of the several Noble model*) with true center hall design. 2,587 sq. ft. of Soar apace gives yaw everylMng . . i four bedroom*, oh the Occasion of the i>edication of 2 Vi both*, dew, dining ream, living room, and large family room with separate fwmoce unit on each floor. Their New Church. Also full basement arid extra-deep garage. Price $31,500. Others from $21,000. 10% DOWN — CONVENTIONAL LOANS . We are proud to have been selected to fabricate the nice L SHIELDS FAMOUS kitehen equipment. UobXe

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CONGRATULATIONS, ST. MARY’S!

4MD BfSr mSHfS FROM RIDGEWOOD IN UTTLETON TO FATHER McCAUIN AND HIS PARISHIONERS A We of Ridgewood in Littleton are indeed pleased to have the new St. Mary’s Church located 3 close to our beautiful custom-built homes on South Prince. We hope, when you come out to see

this new church, you’ll stop in and see some of the outstanding homes being built in

Ridgewood.

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Investigate Ridgewood. You may find the perfect site for your dream home. Ridgewood is located in the city of Little­ ton where schools, shopping centers, recreational facilities and Police and Fire protection are already established. You may select the home to suit your exact individual taste, designed by Denver's most distinctive builders of fine custom homes . . . or choose your own builder. Choice sites are new available. Choosing your future hemesite is an all im­ portant decision. Before you build . . . before you buy, see Ridgewood. A short tour through this area will convince you of its superior value.

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