REGISTER at 10 O’Clock That Morning Prior to a Solemn Mass

Guardian Angels’ Parish to Build Church and Hall WORK TO BEGIN IN MID-APRIL ON PLAN BY CONGREGATION ESTABUSHED IN JUNE OF 1953 Work is expected to begin in the middle ing will eventually be converted into four of April on a building for Guardian An classrooms of a parish school. gels’ Parish in North Denver, according to The church, which will seat between Archbishop Urban J. Vehr. Bids will prob 475 and 500, will contain a choir section on ably be opened on the church and hall in the same floor, a baptistry, and a narthex about two weeks. at the front of the building; and two sac The Rev. Leonard Redelberger, pastor, risties, a storage room, and a boiler room Architect's sketch' of building for Guardian Angels' Parish, Denver, showing church wing at left and hall at right. says that the church portion of the build at the rear. There will be two confessionals. The church will be 6 l feet Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations wide, and the nave will be 70 Contents Copyright by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1953— Permission to Reproduce, Except on feet long. The hall section of the Articles Otherwise Marked, Given A fter 12 M. Friday Following Issue Fire Forces Parish Cure d^Ars Church L-shaped building will be 60 by 34 feet. The over-all length of the building is 149 feet, and the over To Move Masses to And School to Be all width is 122. The building wip be erected toward the w;pst end of the parish DENVER a iH a ic property just east of the rectory, Hail Yet Unfinished Dedicated June 14 which was remodeled from a house on the ground when p u r-, The emergency created by a tragic fire that ruined Monday, June 14, has been set for the dedication of chased for the parish. There will the sanctuary and sacristy of the old St. Vincent de Paul’s the new Cure d’Ars (Church, E. 22nd and Dahlia Street, be ample parking space. basement church will move parishioners of the Most Denver. Archbishop Urban J. Vehr will bless the edifice The bllilding will be construa- Precious Blood Parish into their own quarters this Sun REGISTER at 10 o’clock that morning prior to a Solemn Mass. ed of brick with stone trim. The Rev. John N. Haley, pastor, reports that work day, March 7. VOL. XLIX. No. 29. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1954 DENVER, COLORADO A kitchen will be provided in Though still incomplete, the is going ahead rapidly and that the hall, and there are two rest the new church should be com parish meeting hall is being suf rooms available both to the hall ficiently adapted this week so IN EAST AND WEST SUBURBS pletely ready by the dedication Serious Illness that it can be used as a tempo date. Seminary Invites and the church. rary site for Sunday Masses. The The final contract for the Cost of the project, for which first Masses will be offered altar. Communion rail, and the John K. Monroe is the architea, March 7 at 7:30, 9, and 11 vertical Venetian blinds has been is expected to be about $125,000. Fells 3 Priests o’clock in the hall, which stands let to the Behrens Fixture Com Clergy From Two on the corner of E. Iliff Avenue Archdiocese Buys pany, which is also supplying the New Building and S. Colorado Boulevard, in pews and the sacristy fixtures. front o f the church now under Mr. Behrens, the owner, is mak Vital Necessity In Archdiocese ing the main altar his personal States to Rites construction. The new building is a vital gift to the parish. The Rev. Louis Mertz of St. Heat units have been con All the clergy, secular and re necessity, according to Father Re Therese’s Parish, Aurora, is “ in nected up and temporary lighting Two Parish Sites Advance re*istrationa indicate ligious, from the states of Colo delberger. The parish has been arranged in the hall, on which that there will be 60 enrolled serious condition,” according to rado and Wyoming have been in having Masses and social functions authorities of Mercy Hospital, plastering work was just con The acquisition of two large south by 20th Avenue and the These sites are the third and in the first grade of the new vited to attend the closing of the cluded. Toilet facilities will be school next fall, with 45 in the in the North Denver K. of C. Hall Denver, where the priest under tracfs of ground that may be west by Miller Street. fourth acquired since the end annual Forty Hours’ Devotion went a gall bladder operation a v a ila b le in the building. second grade and 18 in the third. at St. Thomas’ Seminary, Denver, adjacent to the parish property. used for future parishes on the of 1953. John W . Metzger, last week. Through the kindness of the The starting of a third grade will Tuesday, March 9, at 5 p.m The hall, however, is unable any east and west fringes of the Site in Middle former State Attorney General, depend on the number who en The Aurora priest was anoint Knights o f Columbus a supply The Very Rev. William J. Ken- longer to contain the growing ed Monday by the Rev, James of folding chairs will be lent rapidly expanding Denver sub Of New Subdivision donated a five-aae tract be roll and whether arrangements can be made with the Sisters of neally, C.M., rector of the semi crowds either at Masses or parish Hamblin, hospital chaplain, and for temporary use. It is expected urban area was announced this The church land on the east tween E. Fourth and E. Fifth nary, made it clear that, although at Register press time Wednes that between 175 and 200 will the Precious Blood, who will meetings. week by Archbishop Urban J. side of Aurora will be in the Avenues facing west on Peoria teach in the school. personal invitations were sent day had shown little improve be able to attend Mass in the only to the clergy of the Denver Father Redelberger, who was ment. His physical condition hall at one time. It is suggested Vehr. midst of a 40-acre subdivision Street. Thomas B. Croke, Jr., It is possible that two first Archdiocese, the clergy of the ordained June 3, 1944, after mak prior to the operation was such that parishioners bring cushions A plot of approximately five that is to include some 60 of Blessed Sacrament Parish, grade rooms will be necessary. Pueblo and Cheyenne Dioceses for kneeling on the floor. Four classrooms are being com ing all his preparation for the that he has not responded as nor acres has been obtained in the homes, a 1 0 8 - u n i t motel Denver, gave five acres of an also are welcome. He asked that mally would be the case. pleted in the parish building. priesthood in St. Thomas’ Semi The co-operation of archi southeast corner of a ^proposed equipped with a swimming 8.78-aae site, held by the Arch any priest from outside the arch Also near death at Mercy Hos tect's staff, the contractors, and diocese who plans to attend send nary, is a graduate of St. Mary’s pital after a serious heart at home development subdivision pool, and a giant shopping diocese north of Denver near the volunteer help of the mem advance notice to the seminary. High School in Colorado Springs, tack is the Rev. Anthony Bar- center. The development is a Thornton Town as place for a bers of the parish Men’s Club is across East Colfax Avenue from If any Denver priest was over celo, C.R., o f St. Cajetan’s Par where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. making the early use of the hall Fitzsimons Hospital. The other project of Burns (lonstruction possible parish. Both these do CPTL Scheduled looked in the invitation list. Fa ish, Denver. The Theatine priest Albert Redelberger, still live. available, according to the Rev. site, of five and one-half aaes, Company. Hoffman Town is nations were announced at the ther Kenneally expressed his re was anointed and brought to the gret. Ha served as assistant in St. John Donohoe, C.M., pastor. All is Tialfway between Lakew'ood immediately adjacent to the end of 1953. hospital Sunday evening and his Anthony's Parish, Sterling, until condition has remained very have pitched in to hasten the west. 6 of Hierarchy progress o f the hall so that it and Golden, bounded on the Other sites held are: To Hear Lansing poor. Will Be Present he became chaplain of St. Joseph's will be a .suitable site for Mass This land, on the periphery ^ In Denver and vicinity— a The Rev. John Guzinski, who Convent, Denver, mother-house of by Sunday. of one of the most phenomen 48-lot block of ground bounded Six Bishops, including Arch also underwent an operation for bishop Urban J. Vehr, who will the Franciscan Sisters, in August, the removal of his gall bladder, The fire in the basement St. Bernadette's ally growing suburbs in the by S. Kearney and S. Krameria Priest-Educator officiate, are expected to attend 1951. He was named founding is sufficiently recovered to be church in St. Vincent de Paul’s Denver metropolitan area,’ is Streets and Alameda and Da the function, which is becoming able to return home in a day or school building began around The Rev.

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