)EATH COMES TO FATHER J. J. GIBBONS ()RDINATIONS IN PIONEER NOTED «EW CHAPEL SET FOR HARD WORK IN EARLY DAYS 'OR THIS MONTH ^ / Thomas’ Seminary- to Be Scene of Rites, OMest Priest Among Diocesan Clergy of Colo­ Starting on Sunday, rado to Be Buried Saturday Dec. 6 Morning Several ordination ceremonies will be held this month at The death of the Rev. J. J. Gibbons Wednesday night at Thomas’ seminary, in the newly-completed chapel. For Mercy hospital, Denver, marked the passing of one of tbe out­ rs all the ordination rites have occurred in the Cathedral, The National Catholic Welfare Conference Newt Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register and The Register. standing pioneer figures of the Church in Colorado. He was W e Have Alto Our Own Eztentive Special Service, the K. of C. Service, the Central Verein Service, the t, except for priesthood and perhaps other Major Orders, Fidet Service and the California Catholic Prett Service the oldest diocesan priest in Colorado, and, in spite of illness •y will be held in the future^ in the large new chapel at the in the last few years, remained actively engaged in his work as ^ inary VOL XXVII. No. 16. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1931. $2.00 PER YEAR pastor of Presentation church, Barnum, almost until the eve ‘ ensure, the rite of introduction ate, the first of the Major Orders, in of his death. A giant in physical strength and mental stature, Jthe clerical state, will be given which the obligation to celibacy is he made an inestimable contribution to the growth of the |iday evening at 7 :30. The imposed by the Church on the can­ Bishop’s Po’wer Exceeded Army’s Church in Colorado in his 45 years as priest here. Much of St Rev. Urban J. Vehr, D. D., didates. hop of Denver, will officiate. There will be fourteen men in the his life was spent in the mountain districts, where he carried Inday morning at 7.80, he will give class for subdiaconate, including LISTENING IN on under almost unconceivable hardships. lor Orders. Saturday, December three for the Diocese of Denver and His numerous adventures in this tinning ^is journey on muleback and he will ordain to the subdiacon- one for the Holy Cross abbey of the The movement inaugurated by work formed the subject matter of by foot when train service and stage Benedictine order. Canon City. All Biihop O’Hara of Great Falls, in in­ two books he wrote on the early days failed him. these men expect to be ordained dea­ sisting that the people in small towns, in Colorado. One of them, “ In the Most men would have been content \hlates* Superior, cons in Lent and priests in June, where there is no resident priest, San Juan,” details some of his many to rest on their laurels after such 1932. For acolyte and exorcist, gather each Sunday for prayer and narrow escapes on the treacherous a distinguished record of service, there will be twenty candidates; for the reading of instructions, even mountain passes from snowslides or but following a year’s vacation spent Lrchbishop, Dead; ostiarius (doorkeeper) and lector though they cannot have Mass, is other accidents. On one occasion, he in the Holy Land to recover his (reader), there will be twelve; for worthy of emulation in hundreds of relates, he was buried for hours in health, impaired by Uie rigors of his isited Colorado first tonsure, thirteen. All the can­ Western hamlets. The following sen­ a snow drift when his horse fell, work, he returned to build up the didates except two are students of tences from The Eastern Montana pinning him underneath. He finally Presentation parish in Denver. His St. Thomas’ seminary. These two, Register, in an item from Riverside, managed to dig himself out, the fact sister. Sister Mary Monica of the cable from Rome, received by one of whom is to receive subdia­ show what is being done: “Hereto­ that he wore a long, heavy, ulster Mercy nuns at Mercy hospital, tells Rev. J. T. McDermott, O.M.I., conate and the other first tonsure and fore the people seemed content to go saving him from a broken leg. On one that there were only three people tor of th^ Sacred Heart church, the first two Minor Orders, are from to church once a month, or less often occasion he spent ten days in trying present at his first Mass in Barnum, orado Springs, announces the the Holy Cross abbey. Canon City. if the weather was bad, but now, fol­ to answer a sick call, doggedly con- celebrated in the Woodman hall. 1 on November 30 of the Most Following is a list of the men who lowing the Most Rev. Bishop’s pro­ Besides herself there were another rend Archbishop Dontenwill, are to be candidates / gram, they go every Sunday for sister and an old Colored woman. erior General of the Oblates of Subdeacon— Barry Joseph Wogari, prayer in common and instruction in Father Gibbons built the splendid y Immaculate. The priests sta­ Denver; William Joseph Kelly, the Gospel. It is wonderful what one ehurch and school now in the parish, led at the Sacred Heart church, Denver; Raymond Louis Newell, Six Side Chapels can do when one is determined. quite an accomplishment in itself, orado Springs, are members of Denver; Philip Aloysius Ryan, Den­ Words fail to express the great bene­ and saw his congregation grow to f conpegation. ver; Maurice William Helmann, Lin­ some 700 people. fits that the people are receiving from k rchbishop Dohtenwill was bom coln, Nebr.; Vincent John Tikuisis, thus assembling at the church on Sun­ Sister Attends Him Strasbourg, June 4, 1857. As a Belleville; William Dionysius Fox, days. There is already abundant Will Be Finished Attending Father Gibbons in his f of eleven, he emigrated to the Burlington, Vermont; Raymond Wil­ proof in this mission of God’s reward last illness was his sister. Sister M. k ted States and received his early liam Daly, San Francisco, Calif.; for their efforts.” Monica, of the Mercy hospital staff. cation in ^lew York state. In Patrick Joseph Gleason, Monterey- Another sister,' Sister Mary Omar, of f 5, he was ordained to the priest- Fresno, Calif.; Tobias John Sanchez, This plan is not an innovation. It the Congregation of the Blessed Vir­ Santa Fe, New Mexico; Edward An­ at Local Seminary d as an Oblate of Mary Immacu- is an adaptation of the catechist gin Mary at Sioux City, Iowa, was at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, thony Cronin, Monterey-Fresno, movement, used universally in mis­ notified of his illness, but could not [.er occupying a professor’s chair Calif.; John Chrysostom Vandegaer, sion lands, to the nqeds of the Amer­ Gifts Make Possible Installa­ reach Denver before death came. Ottawa university for several Alexandria, Louisiana; Charles Ber­ ican rural community. If the sys­ tion of Marble Altars The Rev. W. F. Richardson, chap­ rs, he was consecrated Auxiliary nard Engbarth, Concordia, Kansas; tem had been used in the early days From Italy lain of Mt. Alverna convent, assisted ' op of Winnipeg, Manitoba. In Maurus Zabolitzky, O. S. ‘B., Holy of the West and South, thousands of by the Very Rev. Dr. William Bren­ year 1899, he was elevated to Cross abbey. When the Mott Rev. Joseph Darnand, left, Vicar Apostolic of the Navi­ immigrants who were lost to the faith Announcement has been made by nan, C. M., president of St. Thomas’ See of New Westminster, British Exorcist and Acolyte — Philip gator archipelago, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of hit ordination would have been saved to us. W e the Very Rev. William Brennan, C. seminary, administered the Last umbia, and later was made the Aloysius Ryan, Denver; Damen Lam­ recently, .the occasion brought about a settlement of political affairs in sometimes shudder to thiqlc of the M., Ph. D., J. C. D., president of Rites of the Church to Father Gib­ Archbishop of Vancouver. In bert McCaddon, Denver; Paul Dio­ Samoa which all the force and diplomacy of the New Zealand mandatory many strayed sheep in our hamlets St. Thomas’ semina^, that six of bons Monday night. Bishop" Vehr 8, he was elected to the position nysius Slattery, Denver; Aloysius had been unable to effect. The mandatory power had been unable to put an in the mountains and on the plains and members of the Denver clergy Rudolph Schmitz, Denver; Charles the auxiliary chapels in the new semi­ Sujierior General of the Oblates end to the insurrection of the Man, a native autonomy group which upheld where it is impossible to keep a priest. nary chapel will be completed be­ visited him several times before the Mary Immaculate and was made Bernard Engbarth, Concordia; John its claims by meant of non-co-operation and passive resistance. At the ban­ end. Chrysostom Vandegaer, Alexandria; Another youth was shot and killed fore the public dedication of the lar Archbishop of Ptolemais, quet held in honor of Bishop Demand’s jubilee, the leaders of the rebellion building. The dedication will, there­ Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass nicia. Because of his able ad- Leo Benedict Morgan, Cheyenne, were seated at the same tahle with the governor of the islands, and'friendly by a policeman this week. The death will be celebrated for Father Gib­ Wyoming; Omer Thomas Fulton, seems to have_ been accidental, but fore, be held off until about May of istration of the.. Congregation of relations were once more established.— (N . C. W . C.-Fides) 1932, as the altars are to comeTrom bons at the Cathedral Saturday Peoria, 111.; Mward Thomas Haskins, fhe boy was chased merely on a sus­ Oblates, which comprises thirty Italy, where they will be made of morning at 10 o’clock.