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DENVER CATHOUC Completed; 1St Public in Denver Sept K a s i Catechism Classes Will Be Enrolled * Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Sunday in Sacred Heart Church Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1947— Permission to Reproduce, Except on Articles Otherwise Marked^ Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. Consecration Details Missionary Sisters Taking Over Convent DENVER CATHOUC Completed; 1st Public in Denver Sept. 18 Appearances of New Thursday, Sept. 18, is “ moving day” at Our Lady of REGISTERI Grace convent of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of The National Catholfe Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We Victory, 2161 Tremont street, Denver. Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller Bishop Are Outlined The four missionary nuns, who will live in the convent, • Services, NCWC and Religious News Photos (3 cents per copy) will do catechetical work among Denver’s underprivileged All the details for the consecration of Bishop-elect Hubert M. Newell, Wednesday, children. They will begin their work* in the Mile High city VOL XLffl. No. 4. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1947. $1 PER YEAR. Sept. 24, in the Denver Cathedral at 10 were completed this week. In addition to the Mass Sunday, Sept. 21, when they will enroll children in catechism and Consecration ceremonies plans were also made for the celebration of Bishop Newell's classes after the children’s Mass in Sacred Heart church. Shrine Set Up in St. Dominic’s first Solemn Pontifical Mass in St. Mary’s church, Littleton, and for a number of public The work of remodeling the Junior Clergy Exam receptions. house, which was purchased by the OUR LADY OF FATIMA STATUF Officers of the Consecration $5,000 Charity Holy Ghost parish as a convent Auxiliary Bishop of Kansas City, for the nuns, is nearly complete. Is Set For Oct. 15 Mass are the following: Pontifical Mass in Mo. [ The painters are giving the last Consecrator, the Most Rev. Arch­ MODELED BY EX-DENVER PRIEST The Rev. Anthony Elzi St. Mary's, Littleton Fund Set by K . of C. touches to the interior, and the The examination for the junior bishop Urban J*. Vehr clergy of the Denver archdiocese The Rev. William Mulcahy Bishop Newell will sing his first work of decorating the exterior of A life-sized statue of Our Lady of Fatima was blessed Co-consecrators, the Most Rev. Jo­ With an initial appropriation of the building is well under way. will be held at St. Thomas’ semi­ seph M. Gilmore of Helena and The Most Rev. Edward J. Hunk- Solemn Pontifical Mass in his for­ $6,000, the. Denver council of the This will be the final step in the and placed in the sanctuary of St. Dominic’s church, Denver, nary Wednesday, Oct 16, at 10 the Most Rev. Joseph C. Will- eler, D.D. mer parish, St. Mary’s, Little­ Knights of Columbus has estab­ renovation of the building. by the pastor, the Rev. V. R. Hughes, O.P., in connection a.m., announces a letter from Arch­ ging of Pueblo Bishop of Grand Island ton, Sunday, Sept. 28, at 10 o’clock. bishop Urban J., Vehr. All priests The Rev. Francis Brady This will be followed by a civic re­ lished a new charity fund. With the completion of the con­ with the Holy Hour services Friday, Sept. 12. Prayers to Our Preacher, the Most Rev. Duane G. ordained in 1942 and the following The Rev. John Moran ception in the Littleton high school This action was taken by mem­ vent work has been started in re­ Hunt of Salt Lake Lady of Fatima will be included in subsequent Holy Hours, years will take this examination. The Most Rev. William T. Mc­ auditorium. bers at the reralar session Tues­ modeling the house just behind the day, Sept. 16. At the same time 16 The statue is Priests ordained in May, 1947, are Assistant Priest— The R t Rev. Carty, C.SS.R., D.D. convent on 22nd street which is to the sculptural Monsignor Charles Hagus Officers of the Mass assisting new members were initiated into excused. Two written sermons of Coadjutor Bishop of Rapid City Bishop Newell as celebrant will be: be converted into a school, where creation of the approximately 20 minutes each Deacons of Honor— The R t Rev. The Rev. James Flanagan the organization. the nuns will give the catechetical Assistant priest, the Rt. Rev, Mon- According to Peter J. Wagner, Rev. Thomas Mc- must be presented at the time of Monsignor Matthew Smith, The Rev. Adam Ritter instruction. Glynn, O.P., for­ the examination on any of the as­ sig;nor Charles M. Hagus; deacons grand knight, the fund will be the R t Rev. Monsignor John The Most Rev. Laurence J. Fitz- of honor, the Rev. Gregory Smith utilized to support K. of C. chari­ Four Nuns merly an assist­ signed topics. The subject matter R. Mulroy Simon, D.D. ant in the par­ and the Rev. Leo Flynn; deacon of table activities throughout the next is as follows; Deacon of the Mass— The Rev. Bishop of Amarillo A t Center ish. Father Mc- Theologia Dogmatics; The Rev. John Marley the Mass, the Very Rev. Joseph fiscal year. Present plans call for Gregory Smith O’Heron; subdeacon of the Mass, donations to local Catholic char­ The four Missionary Sisters who Glynn visited De Vera Religione. The Rev. Louis Mertz will be stationed at Our Lady of Sister Maria das De Ecclesia.—Auctoribus: Herr­ Subdeacon of the Mass— The Very The Most Rev. George J. Donnelly, the Rev. Frederick McCallin; first itable organizations, as well as Rev. Joseph P. O’Heron master of ceremonies, the Rev. regular contributions to all the Grace convent are: Sister Regina, Dores (Mary of mann. Herve. D.D. various collections ordered in the superior, who also opened up the Sorrows) a do­ Theologia Moralis: Chaplains to the Bishop-elect— Bishop of Kansas City, Kans. mestic sister of De Actibus Humanis.—Noldin, The Very Rev. Eugene O’Sul­ archdiocese by Archbishop Urban mission center in Greeley three The Rev. Damen McCaddon Classes Dismissed J. Vehr. years ago; Sister Juliana, who the Institute of Vol. I, pp. 1-343. livan, the Rev. J. B. Liciotti The Rev. Paul Slattery Plana are being completed by of­ comes to Denver from Ontario, St. Dorothy, Por­ De Conscientia. De legibus cum Chaplains to Bishop Gilmore— The The Most Rev. Thomas A. Con­ On Consecration Day Calif.; and Sisters Mary Rose and tugal, who was Cn. 1-86. nolly, D.D. ficers of the council for an ex­ Very Rev. Thomas F. O’Reilly, Clxitet will be diimifted in emplification of "the second and Martha Maryj both of whom were little Lucy dos De Peccatis. De Fide, Spe, et the Very Rev. James Hart­ Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, formerly stationed at the mother- Santos, 10 years Caritate. mann Calif. Catbelic (chooli of the Denver third degrees early in October. archdiocese Sept. 24, the day In the group of 16 initiated into house of the order in Victory old, when Our Jus Canonicum: The Rev. Michael Harrington Lady of Fatima De Personis. Cn. 87-98. Chaplains to Bishop Willging— of Bishop Newell’s consecra­ the first degree were the following: Noll. In3. The Very Rev. Francis Kee­ The Rev. Edward Woeber Julian Atencio, Joseph F. Bab- Although the convent was pur­ appeared to her De Clericis in Genere. Cn. 111- The Most Rev. William J. Condon, tion, it was announced by the and her two 117; 147-151; 183-195; 211- per, C.M.; the Very Rev. Ra­ Rev. Edward A . Leyden, arch­ ish, Charles A. Carletti, Jr.; chased by the Holy Ghost parish phael McCarthy, S.J. D.D. Thomas F. Denser, Walter E. under the direction of the Rt. Rev, younger cousins 214. Bishim of Great Falls diocesan superintendent o f John R. Mulroy, the catechists’ on six separate Sacred Scripture: Archbishop’s Cross-Bearer — The The Rev. Edward Leyden schools. Duffy, James Feely, 0. Charles Rev. George Evans Finder, Val C. Kemper; Emil J. committee of the Archbishop’s occasions 30 Introduction: The S3moptic Ques­ The Rev. John Voight Kraner, Thomas E. McCarthy, guild, with Miss Catherine Ma­ years ago. tion. Introduction to the Gos­ Notarius— ^The Rev. William Ken- The Most Rev. Francis A. Thill, David Maloney; second master of Robert P. McKenna, Francis L. By special ar­ pel of SL John. neally, C.M. D.D. ceremonies, the Rev. Elmer Kolka; loney as chairman, is providing Literature: Schumacher, H., A Usick, Peter Vincent, Thomas H. the furnishings for the home. 'The rangement with Masters of Ceremonies— ^Fathers Bishop of Salina and sermon, the Rev. Gregory Handbook of Scripture Vollmer, Paul Vigil, Jr.; and Jo­ her relwous su­ David Maloney, Bernard Cul­ The Rev. Forrest Allen Smith. committee has been working dili Study, Vol. UI. pp. 42-79 seph M. Watley. periors Father len, Elmer Kolka, William The Rev. James Harmon gently in the past few weeks get­ Simon, A Scnptural Manual, Minor officers of the Pontifical ting the house ready for occu­ Me Glynn ob­ Kelly, John R. Vidal, C.M.; The Most Rev. Duane G. Hunt, Mass will be Tom Stone, Monier tained a descrip­ Vol. II, pp. 105-158. Simon- D.D. 50 Prie$ls Attend pancy. Prado. Frederick^ McCallin. Bolis, Charles Conrad, Peter Gan­ Funeral Mas* tion of the ap­ Offering Bearers— Fathers The­ Bishop of Salt Lake non, Cletus Baudendistel, Fred Two-Story pearance of Our Praelectiones Bihlicae, Vol. II, The Rev. John Kelley pp.
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