Pioneer Era of Church Ends with Father Mad'

Umber of 'Auiii Burent of CireM iM CoBtnti CovjTigfat^ bjr th« Catholie Pr«« Sodaty, Ibc. 1947—Penaladon to ItoiireditM, AxtidM Othtrwlfla HadEed, G ivn Altar 12 IL Friday FoUowimr b«aa Pioneer Era of Church 8 i Ends With father Mad’ + Archbishop Offering Nationally Tha National Catholic - Wallara Conlarenea Nawa Sarrlea Snppliaa Tfaa OasTar GatheQe Register. We HaTO Also tha International News Serriea (Wira and Mall), a Large Special SarTiea« Saraa Baallar , Stryipea, NCWC and Religions News Photos (8 cants par copy) Mass at Funeral of Famed for VOL. X U . No.. 49., DENvIeR, COLO., THURSDAY, JULY $1 PER YEAj] Cathedral’s Rector Sermons By Rit . J ohn B. Ebil Monsignor Hugh L. HcHenamiM Plans for Beginning Services A colorful pioneer era of the Church in Denver closed was nationally famous for hit this week with the death of the R t Rev. Monsigfnor Hugh L. masterful and dramatic sermons. IfeMenamin, rector of the Cathedral for almost 40 years. He never failed to stir his audi-^ ence at the Cathedral. Numberless Anneunced in 2 New Parishes '[ûsands of people—Protestants and Jews as well as times he waa invited to speak be Catholics—in every walk of life mourn the loss of the be fore civic clubs and educational Plans for the beginning of services in two of Denver’s new parishes were announced loved “Father Mac,” They are those who were touched by his groups, and he broi^ht 16,000 this week. The Rev. Michael Maher, administrator the new S t Anthony parish in' Idhidness and charity; those who respected him for his cour people cheering to their feet with address delivered in the jrab- Westwood, declared that Mass will Ik offered for the first time this Sunday at 8:10 o’clodc ageous, tolerant and unselfish leadership in religious and lic auditorium in World war I. in the RoUcdt-O building, located on the comer of W. Kentucky and Raleigh. The priest is civic a^tin. Probably the moat forceful and residing at Presentation rectory, from which all parish business iS being transact^. , Funeral services for the nationally known prelate- are timely address of his career waa The Rev. Duaon MeCaddon, pan* being held this Thursday at 10 o’clock in the CaHiedral that one on “Marriage and Birth Con he built. Archbishop Urban J. Vehr is celebrating the Funeral trol” delivered over radio station tor of Onr Lady of Lonrdes par KOA in Denver Sunday evening, 14,000 Babies Cared for ish, between S t Francis de Sales*- Mass in the bl^k-draped edifice, and delivering the senmon. April 3, 1927. This taUc made a and St. Lonis*, En^rwood, cto> Assisttnt priest is the Rt. Rev. Monsignor William M. Higgins, tremendous impression on Protes elared that starting Sunday, Aug. who served as assistant to Monsignor McMenamin from 1917 to 1922. tant listeners, dissatisfied with the 10, two Masses will be celebrated Deacons of honor are the R t Rev. Moosignor John R. Mulroy and weak position taken by their By Nurse in 12 Years the R t Rev. Moosignor Charles H. Hagus; deacon of the Mass, the Churches in this matter, and seek every Sunday in the gymnasium ing a strong voice. Father Mac the (Tolori'do Stetr ” >m. for D*> Very Rev. Harold V. Campbell; subdeacon of the Mass, the Rev. John had in his room a huge scrapbook By BcnNAmETTK Lyon that many everv day, they arc as pendent (Thildren, ae oss t* j^geet P. Moran; and masters of ceremonies, the Rev. Dr. David Maloney and filled with hundreds of letters he The usual young mother is different and distinct from each from the church r perty a t. to other as 70 grown men and women, the Rev. Bernard Cullen. Minor offices of the Mass are being filled received from Protestant listeners rushed to death caring lor one Logan and IHff. The time of toe as a result of this talk. The address whose personalitieii have been hlasees will be announced Lter. by seners of tiie Cathedral school. baby. Here is a woman who has established.’’ was reprinted in pamphlet form by cared lor some 1^000. She is The Sisters of S t Frande, Wboee Pallbearers Prtest-Alumni of Colorado the RegitUr to meet the many re mother-house la St. Joseph’! con quests for copies. Mrs. Betty Amman Fanger, for 12 4 AaeietmtB ' The pallbearers, all alumni of Cathedral high school and na^ve vent in Denver, will begin Sun Monsignor McMenamin’s . talk years aupervijior of the nursery in Kept Buey sons of the parish, are Fathers William Kelly, John Kelly, Damen St. Joseph’s hospital, Denver. day school class for the Cathofic follows in part: > hfldren of Jb t home Aug. 10. She has seen an average of 100 la spite of the personality MeCaddon, Barry Wogan, Elmer Kolka, and 'Thomas Doran. It has been said toat “the ques infanta enter the nursery mohthly differences, the 70 sparks of life MEN OF PARim The remains of Monsignor McMenamin were moved from the tion of marriage, the question of in that time. Since 1946 the apparently require the same care. TO BUILO SHRINE rectory to the church Wednesday afternoon, where they lay in state the family and the home must ever monthly number of young vidtors Four assistants are kept busy The men of the new narish have until, the Funeral Mass. A Solemn Mass of R eîem was celebrated be one of thrilling interest, one of absorbing importance, and has been 260. At present there through the day- with weighing, secured permission to build a at 8 o'dock Thunday morning with die Rev. Freaerick McCallin, cele are about 70 youngsters there. A thri c to Our Lady of nurdea on (Turn to Page 10 — Column 3) woman with that experience should preparing for feeding, changing, brant; the Rev. John Haley, deacon; and the Rev. John Ebel, subdeacon. and bathing. Accurate charts are the chunh grounds as he fir ur.it + + +u know her babies—and Mrs. Fanger of the narito plant The Work will does. kept, recording toe progress in weight and growth of each baby. be done on a voluntary basis, and evening, “A human being, even one a Special formulae are prepared for it ia expected that the môrity of for the ni^t. draped. few days old, has a distinct per* Fostered those whose growth is below the men in the parish w iu have a rector's death by a Denver fire dm rtm ent hook and ladder company, sonality,” she says. “To a stranger, normal. part in the construction, wh H will viewing 70 babies in a'row, there be under the direction of Victor Moflsignor McMenamin died Sunday, July 27, in St. Joseph's is no outstanding characteristic to It is interesting to foHow the procedure involved in caring for a R. Meyer, contractor member of hospital, where he had been taken toe day before. Although his last Vocations, distinguish one from another. Yet, Our Lady of Lourdes. It is hop^ illness was brief, he had been in failing health for more toan a year. to a nurse aecustomed to handling new-born baby who ia b ro u ^ t into the nursery. Wrapped in ape- that every family in the -ariah will select a stone for the grotto, which When he was anointed by the Rev. Richard Duffy, chaplain of St cial, chemically treated, bleached Joseph's hospital, Saturday evening, it was the fifth time in recent blankets is a small wrinkled ball, will be finished before toll. Conversions Regis High Grad usually with a red face, and alwaya Women of the new ûthside years that he had received the last sacraments of toe Church. with a black foot from the ink parish have decided to form an Customs of II $. Life Years applied to make an imprint for Altar and Rosary society so that Walked Three Miles to Mass Monsignor McMenamin enjoyed Gets Scholarship the records. The bundle is imme vestments and altar Unens will be Bom in Freeland, Pa., Sept 11, 1871, of Irish immigrant parents, n e a t success in his work, under diately placed on the scales, and ready when the MZtsh buildings Hugh McMenamin knew all the rigors of a small coal mining com God, with converts and vocations then taken to the heat room tiut are erected. MradRaik Behan of Ago Seem ânge Today to toe religions life, two of the To Science School munity. He was one of a family of 13 children, and in later years loved g^Katest sources of happiness in adjoins the nursery. A normal 1423 S. Acoma ia calling a meet- to recall that happy home life. The church w u toree miles distant, but y remains in the heat room ing in S t Francis da Sales’ rectory By Monsmnor MATmw SMRMjW own toast by lifting a lid any priest’s life. As in so many Frank Leonard Mayer, who was for only a few hours, and is then assembly room Friday evening. AU (Masalrs af a Catbalb Editi||i §T toe stove and laying the bread even the severest winter weather could not keep the family from Sunday otoer fields. Father Mae was a graduated from Regis high school taken into the nursery. A pre (TumtoPoffeS — Colum n A) RapradacBaa ia WbaU or iw fbi# brer the fire, first one side and Mass. The father led the way, breaking a path in the snow; then came trailblazer in convert work. Soon in Denver last June, has been mature baby, called a “premy’^ by FarbUdaiu Caityrigktad, l*4T.) Tf- |to n tha other, on a wira holder.

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