Show THANKSGIVING AN 18 GI ING IN I ICA CA CATHOLiC CHURCH I Two Masses Said at St Marys Cathedral and Special Mu Musi I si j Rendered I Thanksgiving mass was celebrated at St Marys Roman Catholic cathedral at atS 8 S yesterday morning by Father Michael Curran who preached a short sermon appropriate to the day Another er en mass was WIlS said by Father D Kiely at 9 followed by a sermon There was a large attendance at each service For the 9 mass music was fur furnished furnished furnished by Miss Lillie Whelan Miss Florence ONeil ONell Miss Genevieve Geneyieve Brooks and Miss Mildred Cuddy Taking his text from Revelations vii 12 Father Kiely read Benediction and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving ing log honor and power and strength to our God forever and ever eyer Amen Father Kiely said in part Before time began or man was cre created created this was the angels prayer before the throne of God Thanksgiving day means a day set apart when all should attend church and in the secrets of their hearts acknowledge and confess with joy the benefits which their Father in heaven bestows either upon them themselves themselves i selves or others Be nothing solicitous said Saint Paul to the but butin butin butin in everything by prayer and supplication tion with thanksgiving let your prayer and petitions be made known to God When a friend bestows a favor grat gnat gratitude gratItude demands thanks So universally impressed is human nature with this idea that one who tails falls to appreciate favors Is looked upon with contempt and ostracised by society Even the dumb brute will acknowledge the kind kindness kindness kindness ness it receives This proves that the Instinct is universal To God alone mankind is indebted for all aU it possesses What have you that you did not pos possess possess sess asks St Paul and if you re received received received why boast as if you ou received not Since for nearly half a Ii century the chief executive of the nation has been sending a message to all citizens to return thanks to our Father in heaven en for tor the blessings he in his bounty bestows These blessings are twofold spiritual and temporal Spiritual blessings known only to those who serve God mean peace and happiness When one enjoys a peaceable conscience It means that he is at peace with God i and his fellow man It means that a vir virtuous virtuous life has been his guiding star through a thorny pathway of life For this we should be thankful to God who gives the grace to be honest upright and faithful citizens Temporal blessings consist In boun bounteous bounteous bounteous harvests Our supply is greater than our demand and for this reason rea oll should every loyal and patriotic citizen In obedience to the wishes of the ruler of this great republic today be grate grateful grateful grateful ful and return thanks for Gods boun bounteous bounteous bounteous providence A nation that denies and forgets God cannot last Unfortunately that very prosperity which is showered upon the nation makes many forget God Tin Tho Dispenser of All An Good Things For the last ten days we have been reading rending the piteous appeals sent to heaven for the entombed miners mIllers at Cherry Ill how all an were awakened to toa toa toa a sense of ot their dependence on God Those who escaped d from the jaws of death tell how they prayed sang hymns wrote letters to their loved ones telling tailing that their only consolation was In the hope of meeting them In heaven In all the stories told by these dying heroes faith in God and gratitude to him were supremely manifest It was their only source of happiness Su Sti Superstition Superstition say unbelievers but a su superstition superstition superstition that calms the soul of the dying husband and father that enables him to endure without murmur the pangs of hunger and an thirst is better and preferable to the anguish despondency and hopelessness of ot the un unbeliever unbeliever unbeliever believer For those who lost a husband father or a brother our deepest sympathy should go out today What a cheerless sad and sorrowful Thanksgiving h day flay Is theirs For those who survived the poi poisonous poisonous gases hunger and thirst and are this day with their families we should return thanks to God and like the an angels angels angels gels cry cr out Benediction and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving honor and power and strength to our God for forever forever forever ever and ever Amen |