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r-n Work to Be Started on New Church in Hugo Parish St. Joseph's Parish Constructing Activities o/ Only Fifty Families 4- + + + New Hall to Accommodate Has Money on Hand to Pay for Project Constuiction of a new St. Anthony’s church in Hugo is expected to begin Church and School Projects soon, it was announced this week by the Rev. Francis A, Pettit, pastor. The Construction of a parish ac enough to accommodate all ! ( low bid of $34,500 was submitted by the Inland Construction Co. of Omaha. tivities building in St. Joseph’s parish activities. It will probably (Redemptorist) parish, Denver, be finished in time for the fall The church will be a frame structure of conventional design with red was begun Aug. 2, feast of St. festival, which is scheduled for 'i cedar siding. It Wiwill seat 254. A partial basement is included in the plans drawn Alphonsus, founder of the Re- Sept. 30, and Oct. 1 and 2. by John K. Monroe, architect. This project will fulfill a long- There are some'SO families in the Hugo demptorists. Patrick D. Horgan, Father Pettit reveals that the parish has who has designed many projects felt need for space for parish parish. Father Pettit also serves the missions in New York, Chicago, and projects and for activities of $35,000 on hand for the construction, which Denver, drew up the plans for the school. It is expected that of Limon, Deertrail, and Strasburg, offer the building. Mr. Horgan re the new building will furnish means that the furnishing of the new church ing Mass every Sunday in Limon and on cently designed the Mile-High ample space also ■ for athletic will not leave a tremendous debt for the par alternate Sundays in the other two places. Kennel club stadium of Den events sponsored by the parish ish. , ver. The new parish building is school. Father Pettit, a native of Pueblo, was or being constructed of brick and The Rev. Harry S. Smith, Razing of the present church will begin dained in 1936 by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr steel and will have a brick front C.SS.R., pastor, reveals that no next week, according to the Hugo pastor. in the Denver Cathedral. He served for a facing Galapago street. It will where in the thickly populated Until the new structure is completed Mass time as a chaplain in the Civilian Conserva measure 92 by 100 feet. west side of Denver is there now The steel is being supplied a hall, auditorium, or gymna will be offered in the parish hall. This build tion Corps, and was assistant at the Annun and erected by the Sterling Steel sium large enough to take care ing, a former CCC recreation hall, was do ciation and Blessed Sacrament parishes in & Supply company, of which of the needs of the neighbor nated to St. Anthony’s parish in 1943 by the Denver before being named pastor of the Ed Carr is president and Jack hood. Father Smith intends this parish hall to relieve the need of Lincoln county commissioners. It was moved Hugo parish. He succeeded the Rev. John Speyer i.s the construction en THE NEW PARISH activities building 1 square feet and will be used for parish and to a site west of the church, and has been Scannell, who left St. Anthony’s to become gineer. The brick and concrete neighboring parishes as well as . , ^ , i oi. T r> j i. -X school activitie.s. At the right is the parish church, work is being supplied by his own. He has been planning to be erected fit St. Joseph S Kedemptonst background can be seen the high school build- used as a parish hall and for the holding of the founder and first pastor of the new Berglund & Cherne. this project .since he came to parish, Denver, is shown above. It will cover 9,200 I ing and, behind the church, the rectory.___________ summer school classes in Christian doctrine. Christ the King parish m Denver. The building will be large Denver in 1947. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Contents CopjTighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1949—Permission to Reproduce, Except on Articles Otherwis/ Marked. Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. St. Cajetah’s Rectory Ready to Occupy + + + + . + + Wheatridge New Presbytery in Theatine Parish May Become Parish Has U. S. Center 200 Families OfTheatines The new $75,000 rectory REGISTER Last week end, 58 workers St. Cajetan’s parish, Denver; The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We of Sts. Peter and Paul’s par is ready for occupancy, ac Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller ish, Wheatridge, made per cording to the Rev. John Or Services, NCWC and Religious News Photos. Price of paper 3 cents a copy. sonal calls at the more than dinas, C.R., pastor. • The 1,300 residences .in the area of DENVER, COLORADO priests of the parish wilj VOL. XLIV. No. 50. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1949 the new parish. They discov move from their temporary ered 200 Catholic families. quarters in the chu'rch an4 The figures are not yet com school buildings Sunday, Aug. 7; To Be Ready by September, 1950 plete because Some of the home Plans for utilizing the modem; occupants were out when the cen two-story structure as a center sus workers called and a number for the Theatine order in the U.Si of the houses in this area are in are being considered, said Father the process of construction. Ordinas, but the final decision Contract Is Let to Build A full report of the census with has not yet been made by the Very the return of all the Catholic cen Rev. Matthew Barcelo, C.R., presJ sus forms will be made this Friday ent superior in this country, whd evening at the Weakland store at resides in Colorado Springs. : 8 o’clock. One o f . the most interesting Rectory Has ■ Edgewater Parish School phases of this door-to-door can 22 Rooms vass on the part of the workers Work on the new rectory,____ ........... which was the kind and warm reception faces northeast on Ninth stree^ Work on the proposed $138,000 school at St. Mary Mag they received at the homes of non- between Lawrence and Arapaho* dalene’s parish, Edgewater, is scheduled to get under way Catholics. In these homes they left was started early in December, Center Has soon, according to the Very Rev. Monsignor James P. Flan a letter of greeting from the pas 1948. Of lovely architectural de tor and parishioners. Several of sign, the building has brick walls agan, pastor. the non-Catholic, families offered Situated betiveen 28th and 29th streets on Zenobia, the and a tile roof, with a combina^ financial assistance in the building A MAJOR project in the Archdiocese 10 or 12 priests, and plans are being discussed tion wood and steel frame. It new school will include four class 1*1 Classes for vent The Sisters of S t Joseph of the parish and almost all of for its use as the province center of the Theatine measures 90 by 30 feet on the out-' rooms and an auditorium, which them were pleased with the pros of Denver was the construction of this 22- order in North America. The Rev. John Ordinas, side and has 22 rooms, 10 of themi HTTl..M pfeilTHISW lot' IIW [Odao ^teach in 'St. t Gatherina. , a A.and pect «f ft Cathiilic ehu*‘fh in their room reettry^fn'St.=-<!!jje«ffV'Thti(titnrT>rriMi. Nait C.R., Is p a s ^ pa11xh;--^(eharli^be^r6oma St. Patrick s grade schools. Den- community. ready for occupancy, the building will accommodate Wunder photo) The ba.sement, as yet unfinished; Total of 6\2 tive offices. A partial basement Ptani are.-under way for a beneath the one-story structure ver; St. Louis’^rade school, Engle- contains a vault for parish records^ large parish meeting, when the A beautiful enclosed passage The impressive figure of 580 will be used for boiler and storage wood; and St. Francis de Sales’ final tally is made, to discuss rooms. Fireproof throughout, the grade and high school. way in the rear connects the rec children and 32 adults, a total the immediate building and fi Letters From Congressional Members tory with St. Cajetan’s church, school will be finished in brick S t Mar>' Magdalene's parish is nancial projects of the parish. of 612, made up the enroll masonry. ■The architectural firm of John! bounded by Stuart street on the The new Wheatridge parish, K. Monroe drew the plans for the ment for the religion classes John K. Monroe of Denver is east, W. 35th avenue on the north, which was established by Arch building, and N. R. Neilsen 4 conducted in the Holy Ghost the architect, and the Empire Con Colfax avenue on the south, and bishop Urban J. Vehr in June this Indicate Attitude Toward Barden Bill Son did the building work. Youth center, 416 22nd street, by struction company, Denver, has the it extends west to the Golden par year, has a site for a parish plant Archbishop Urban J. Vehr will the Missionary Sisters of Our contract. ish. Part of the parish was cut off between W. 39th and W. 40th ave In reply to letters protesting less of their ability to meet their the precedent for limitless expan dedicate the new rectory some Lady of Victory.