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I . LITURGICAL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN DENVER

Contents Copyrighted by the Press Society, Inc. 1946— Permission to reprodnce. Except on Articles Otherwise Marked, given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue Denver Ex-Navy Youth. « Meeting in Octeber Will Join Trappists D EN V ER C A TH O LIC To Be Medeied on European Observance B y M abel S pitleb Enlisting in the navy in Novem­ America at Gethsemani, K^. There Although in the past several ber, 1942, he trained at Farragut, today, among wooded, roiling hills, stand their monastery and farms. months millions ot young Amer­ Ida.; made the rate of musician, ican men have changed from serv­ There is observed the Rule of St- Is Expected to Stimulate Interest in Prayer-Life ice uniforms to civilian clothes, second class; played in the Farra­ Benedict — “ a liffe of seclusion gut orchestra; and later was as­ from the world and of union with REGiSTER few have doffed navy blue to don The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Regfister. We Apostolate; Prominent Leaders Will Trappist white, as will Urban S. God by prayer, spiritual reading, signed to the U.SJS. Rhode Island, Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller Ginn, 2l-year-old son of Mrs. M. which made a year-long. South study, manual labor, and silence.” F. Ginn of 2089 Fairfax street, American goodwill tour. In March, There is lived the contemplative Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos. (3 cents per copy) Attend Functions Blessed Sacrament , Denver. 1946, he received an honorable life, the heroic life, for which Ur­ ______^------« ------Whoever has heard even ban Ginn will leave Denver the discharge. But two years or more VOL. XU. No. 38. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1946. $1 PER YEAR The Most Rev. Urban J. Vehr announced at the clergy vaguely o f the Cistercians o f the before that happened his early in­ week of May 19. conference held in the Denver Cathedral May 14 that the Strict Observance— Trappists, as terest in the monastic life re­ they are generally known — has vived and turned toward the Cis­ National Liturgical conference will have its annual meeting tercians o f the Strict Observance. for the year 1946 in Denver in early October. The foundations of the order The conference will be held to stimulate interest in the were laid in 1098 by a Benedictine Five Reiigious Wiii Be Ordained May 26 Liturgical Apostolate, which is fostering active and intelli­ Abbot Robert, who, with a score gent participation of the laity in the official prayer-life of of monks like himself desirous of + + + + ■+ + the Church. the perfect observance of St Five members o) religious com­ Benedict’s rule, established a mon­ munities will be the first of a class This annual meeting to be held astery in the of Chalons- in Denver is modeled on the so- sur-Saone, France. The ground of 18 to be ordained priests from St. Thomas’ this spring. called Liturgical Week observed chosen was swampy land covered Regis College The five, who will be raised to the for many years in Europe before with rushes called “ cistells” — priesthood on May 26, are the the war, and in this country for hence the name of the new monas­ Rev. Andrew Hayes, O.S.M.; the the first time in Chicago in 1940. tery, Citeaux. Commencement Rev. Edward G. Shaw, C.S.V.; the Since the Chicago Liturgical Through the years and across Rev. Paul Francis Jasinski, C.S.V.; Week, there has been an annual Europe the Order of Citeaux in­ the Rev. Donald F. Lund, C.S.V.; gathering of leaders in the field of Slated May 24 creased until the 14th century, and and the Rev. Martin Paul the Liturgical Apostolate in the then occurred a period of decline. Dougherty, C.S.V. The four Clerics more