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iji'iiliiiiM SECTION TWO Office. 938 Bannock Street THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Telephone KE. 4205 PAGE ONE Greetings to All Our Readers: h e advertisers whose names appear herein have, by their kind and gener­ ous co-operation with the publishers, made possible this Easter Supplement to TheT Catholic Register. That The Register is able to do this is due to the merchants and business houses advertising in the supplement. These concerns The Register is glad to bring to the attention of its thousands of readers, confident that their appre­ ciation will express itself in added and increasing patronage. It has been proven, time and again, that A Register Ad Pays.’^ We ask Register readers and their friends to demonstrate again the truth of this well-known saying. THE-CATHOLIC REGISTER Official Organ of the Diocese of Denver LETTERS SHOW TRIALS OF PRIEST IN FAR NORTH Particularly touching this Eas­ fall on my knees and make an act perience a great desire to see the d ^ s we shall return to Abvayak. to coal. We also went fishing on then I shall go to visit the camp the goose of other times. That Henry after five weeks of travel­ tertide, which comes near the close of submission to the will of the Eskimos arrive. Oh, pray for me. I have decided to live at the home a river where the Eskimos built a of the Akkunermiuts, where there was indeed so far away . I re­ ing. Their new mission is already of the Holy Year commemorat­ good God. Three years of efforts, Monsignor, for I am not good for of old Joseph Ik’eperiak. Next long time ago a stone dam to trap is one very well disposed family. ceived Communion once more; it very flourishing. I have heard ing the nineteenth centenary of of sacrifices, of sufferings, wiped anything. is Christm/is, it is Christmas! I from Father Girard and he tells rear I shall have a tent in summer, the salmon going up stream. In a Imaginary Coffee the Redemption, is the moving out in a few instants. I no longer Diiaster Deicribed \ and in winter the snow, the moss, few days we harpooned several keep telling myself that this per­ me that you have indeed wished story of heroic devotion to the have a breviary; nothing with This is how the disaster oc­ and the rocks will not be lacking thousand for the winter. My health is excellent, and my haps is not at all liturgical, keep­ to recognize my poor mission at Holy Eucharist which runs, like a which to say Mass. I am alone on curred: The plans we had were for a burrow against the cold. feet "have healed. They had suf­ ing the Holy Species on my per­ Abvayak by naming it St. Etienne. golden thread, through the fol­ my island for the moment and the of very poor quality, slit in many Abvayak, Aug 25. Visit of Schooner fered from the fact that my over­ son for so long a time; but with­ You can never believe how this lowing letters. The letters are Eskimos are not expected to ar­ places and allowing the wind to We have returned. Providence Some days ago a schooner heated boots, partly burned during out an altar, without a tabernacle, delicate attention on your part those of Father Etienne Bazin, rive for one or two weeks, perhaps get in, forming great currents of has aidq.d ipe. With some planks passed near here and even stopped the fire, were so shriveled that without ornaments, what could has touched me. I am profoundly whose mission station is later when the jce shall have air between the two wooden edges. that were not too burned, 1 have a day at Iglulik. I was 'absent. they wounded me. As to fatigue, one do? grateful to you for this,. My I do not know what it is, not hav­ very near the North Pole. Only a broken. At present, it is danger­ It was being remedied from time rebuilt in miniature, and am writ­ Some Eskimos went aboard, but Hopes for Mission Boat great hope now is to see the mis­ few months ago the whole world ous. Until their arrival, I can to time. Yesterday there wds a ing you with ink of Ay own manu­ they did not know a word of Eng­ ing succeeded in doing anything sion boat Pius XI at Abvayak. The lish and the Whites could not in the four years I have been in If the Sacred Congregation of watched anxiously the unsuccess­ only pull in my belt a notch at a storm. After my Mass and thanks­ facture. The new house is cov­ Rites does not uphold me, how mission will be restocked again ful efforts of the mission boat. time. giving, I inspected with the aid of ered With the skin of a walrus and speak a word of Eskimo,! so they this country. in two or three years, but above were not able to understand one many years will it be before I Sometimes I long for a good cup know it? Everything will have all our people will be so happy to another and the boat did not come of some hot beverage. I heat have a chapel and I so happy to here. What a pity, for I could been over then. This night, i ^ l e some water, concentrate on the chanting in Eskimo the canticle of see the boat of the Pope of the have taken advantage of the op­ though of tea or coffee, close my Missions at the seventieth (lati­ portunity to send you a word. Christmas, “ Merci, Merci, Jesus eyes to help my imagination, and est ne,” I say to myself: Merci, tude), at Abvayak, to stren^hen Because of the necessity of out­ thus avail myself of a treat. merci, I am as poor as He was at the conversion of neophytes and fitting myself with Eskimo cloth­ His birth. He ought to love me, to assure that of the pagans. ing and coyers, I am giving asylum At other times I long for a good meal in the manner of civilized and I communicate without fur­ I close. Monsignor and beloved generously to battalions of .little ther hesitation. , Father, by expressing to you all guests, who are feeding themselves people. Then I boil a half-dozen shapeless, calcinated beans, recov­ Repulse Bay, April 18, 1934. my gratitude and devotion, but gratis at my expense without even also asking you for the help of asking permission. As I have no ered one by one from the glowing Having arrived here for a little coals after the fire. I close my visit one beautiful evening, I sur­ your prayers and your benedic­ way of keeping them out of my tion.— Etienne Bazin, O.M.I. cell and as I get some new ones eyes a second time and tell myself prised Father Clabaut and Father from each of the Eskimos, I invoke that it is a good thing to expiate St. Benedict Labre to give me pa­ my youthful sins of gormandizing. tience to bear with these untimely Walrus abound. The dogs will guests. After all, it is better to feed well next winter. We can serve one’s purgatory here below; see hundreds of dormant walrus I should indeed have some scores idling on the floating ice. We ap­ credited in the great book of St. proach; we fire a gun, but the Peter. noise has no effect; they regard We have resumed work on the us disdainfully aiid that is all. new abode. The roof is of brush­ They fight among themselves. I wood, grass, and moss; the win­ have witnessed some of these bat­ dows are made from the intestines tles; I was right there beside them of walrus, which is transparent and they paid no more attention and luminous enough, but too ap­ to me than if I were on the other petizing for the dogs, who eat side of the bay. Last year there was a scarcity and the EsW- away the windows during the wm night. In two months I hope to mos ate three-year-old carrion. have some new cariboo clothing, Imapne the odor from such putre­ faction. As to the instruction and spirit­ ETERNITY ual life of the Eskimos, they are i■ I look forward into the eternal persevering well. Sunday I gave years and see myself at last in my instructions; unfortunately no rest on the bosom of God. All s Mass now. The young are easy to ovbri Life, and uncertainty, and instruct, although they are en­ death, and judgment, and purga­ dowed with an extraorinary fac­ tory. And with my head on the ulty for forgetting. The elders heart of Him who has I6ved me are more difficult, jiot that they to the end, I look back. How clear lack good will, but they have everything is from this height, in grown up all alone and had fabri­ ■this unclouded light and this un­ cated a queer sort of Christianity troubled peace! All mists swept before our arrival. away; all doubts dispelled; all questions set at rest; all cravings Heart of Mother’s Death satisfied.— Mother Mary Loyola. I- am thinking of the future. I can see myself next February at JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD Repulse bay, where I will learn the name of the Very Reverend God sometimes allows strange Father General, elected in 1932. things to be said about people who Probably I shall be the last mem­ fear to appear devout.

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