Show BID ADIEU TO TOp p R RAL Last Mass Will Be Held in Old Church on Christ Christmas Christmas Christmas mas Day FULL OF TENDER MEMORIES 5 WILL WORSHIP IN BASEMENT BASE ENT OF NEW CATHEDRAL Announcement was made in St Mary Marys lar s Catholic proc thedral yesterday that the thelast last Jast mass will be celebrated on Christmas day da In the old Church and that the trans for of the altars statues pews and other paraphernalia will begin on Thursday The service that will mark the closing of the old church will consist of pontifical pontifical pontifical ical high mass at 11 with Bishop Scanlan as celebrant The Thc services next Sunday will be held In the basement of the he St Mary Magdalen cathedral where the usual mass in the morning on week weekdays weekdays weekdays days and the Sunday masses will be said thenceforth The announcement of the removal was made at the three masses yesterday esterday by the Rev Father W K Ryan Father Ryan referred to the fact that the church churchIn In which he was then speaking had served sered for nearly forty years and that many scores of Salt Lake residents resident had been baptised or married In the edifice and many had been laid at rest from It It will be with much regret that you will receive this news but it is no longer advisable to hold services in the old ca en cathedral thedral on account of the he defective con condition condition condition of or the heating plant said Father Ryan Ran It would require more to recon reconstruct reconstruct reconstruct the plant than to remove to the new cathedral where we will have quarters Quarters quarters quite as commodious and comfort comfortable comfortable comfortable able as these father Ryan said that It was tIle the hope to have the new cathedral completed by bythe bythe bythe the middle of the year ear but he called at attention attention to the need of money if that hope were ere to o be realized Father Ryan paid a high tribute to Bishop Scanlan Sc he said had been indefatigable in his labors to bring about the early carl completion of the new cathedral The Idea of building a new cathedral occurred to Bishop Scanlan aft after after after er he was ordained a bishop in 1887 In 1889 the bishop made the erection of a anew anew anew new cathedral the theme for a powerful sermon and the plans took form torm The corner stone of ot the new now cathedral was laid In July 1900 the feast of ot St Mary Magdalen and the hope Is that the dedi dedication dedication dedication cation services may be held on June 22 next eight years after the corner stone was laid The old church save for a few addi additions additions additions and repairs stands today practically practically practically ally the same as It did In 1873 when Bish Dish Bishop Bishop Dishop op Scanlan came to the parish Memories without number weave themselves about theold church which has been the dio die diocesan cesan cathedral so long and nd was before e that a church The Tho older parishioners have been accustomed to worship at theold the theold theold old church so many years that the change will for foi the time being seem strange a |