Show LENT A TIME TO BE GOOD AND GODLY BEING AS PENITENT AS YOU MAY Today is Ash Wednesday the beginning of Yent In the Catholic and Episcopal churches there will be services In ln special observance of the day da Throughout the world hundreds of thousands of Chris Chri tian uan believers will kneel at the chancel rail In the Catholic churches and receive from the officiating priest the sign of the cross made with the thumb and fingers after having been dipped Into a vessel containing ashes Hundreds of thou thousands thousands thousands sands will receive communion In the Catholic and Episcopal churches In ITI Salt SaIt Lake at St Marks Episcopal cathedral there will wilt be penitential service service service ice and holy communion at At 10 there will wU be morning prayer the litany and meditation At 11 there will be holy communion At 4 In the afternoon there will be evening grayer and a lecture lectura by Dean Benjamin Brewster who will speak on the subject Hebrew Prophets At St Pauls church there will wilt be holy communion at 8 in the morning anti ana Ash Wednesday service at 10 At this service the rector Rev C E Perkins will deliver an address s There Ther I I will b holy communion at 10 Thursday morning and evening service at jat On Friday evening service will be beat beat beat at In St Marys cathedral this morning there will be bo mass at 70 73 at which the Rev Father Fathe Kiely wilt will be the cele celebrant celebrant celebrant brant Previous to the mass the ashes wilt will be blessed St Cecilia choir will sing At in the evening there thero will be 00 benediction bene of the blessed sacra sacrament ment Literally Ash Wednesday means a day dayot of ot ashes In ancient times it was the custom for penitents to appear in the th church covered with sackcloth and ashes In the English En lIsh church prayer book the service Is used on Ash Wednesday ay as a provisional substitute for forthe forthe forthe the godly discipline to which of oC old offenders were subjected on this day da Por Pot Portions Portions of this service were incorporated Into the American Book of Common Prayer in iii 1879 lb ig 9 The Catholic observe Lent after atter a fixed set of fast rules Every Everyone one Is expected to deprive himself of or worldly pleasures and to indulge in only to the Uie extent that it is necessary In fact all alP Christians are supposed to ob observe observe observe serve Lent by bv abnegation Lent will wiIl last forty days das Jt t is the period that was spent by Jesus in the wilderness and the sacrifices made on onearth onearth onearth earth by b humankind are intended to typify typify typify fy the sufferings of the Lord during his wanderings Lent this year as it does in all aU other years will wilt come cometo to a close Easter Sunday which happens to fall faU on April 19 39 Last year Easter Sunday came canto cantoin In March the date being the Slat The feast is fixed by calculations based on the moon milOn As Easter is fixed so too Is Ash Wednesday fixed It is a general genera custom for tor those who be lieve they ought to be better than they are and who believe by b mortifying the flesh they will wilt make strides toward the goal of ot perfection to swear off on many man manof of the luxuries during Lent In which they the have Indulged There Is an implied em bargo on dances and the ladies adles are ex expected expected expected to wear their modest cuts of gowns and fashions of ot bonnets It is the custom for the ladles to observe this rule some say sa welt well knowing will come out of the ordeal on Eastep Eastel Sunday with costumes of f bewildering beauty and hats that are indeed hats I SERIES OF LECTURES Bishop Spalding to Deliver Addresses During Lenten Season During the Lenten season Bishop F S Spaulding of the Episcopal diocese will wilt deliver a series of lectures In St Pauls Episcopal church The subject will wilt be Christianity and Moral Morat Reform di dl divided divided vided as follows March 12 The Present Condition of Society An Investigation of the present distribution of wealth the problem of ot capital and labor and the results of or the competitive system March 19 1 The Program Of I C Enlightened Individualism An attempt to estimate the value of effort along lines of philan philanthropy philanthropy philanthropy and political retorts reform March 26 The History of Socialism Some account of the causes for time the move movement movement movement ment and the early leaders April 2 Karl Marx and Scientific So Socialism Socialism An effort erfort to state clearly what socialism Is and the arguments for and amI against it April 9 The le Great Cooperative Com Corn Commonwealth Commonwealth The steps proposed to bring it t about and what it will be like when It arrives |