| Show I I BEGINNING OF LENT I ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICES I HEID YESTERDAY Y I Opening of the Season of R pen t nnce I Observed in V the Episcopal and V I Catholic Churches r f Lent bejjun ycstWday with Ash Wednesday afidthe customary services were held in the Catholic and Episcopal churches At StMarys cathedral the I ceremony of blessing the ashes was I held at 8 a in followed with mass by Father Klely the childrens choir under un-der Miss Gleason singing appropriate hymnsdurlngthe maims VicarGeneral Klely made 0 brief address explaining the obligations of the Lenten season a tenth part of the year being set apart I by the church bedevoted to penance and abstinence and the speakers theme was Remember man that thou art dust and to dust thou shall return arllust At 780 the service oC the rosary and benediction was held with an address by Father Keenan on the general duties of Catholics duiing Lent which Included prayer and fasting Similar services were held Ht St Patricks I church under the direction of Father Richard Klely and at both Sf Mary and at St Patricks special services I will be held Wednesday and Friday evenings during Lent At SL Marys academy Father Cur ran conducted the service of blessing and distributing the ashes to the sla era and pupils at 630 1 m and at 4 1 p 1 m he conducted the benediction services At the hospital Father Kennedy I I i Ken-nedy blessed and distributed the ashes at C20 a m and at o 4 p I m conducted tho benediction service At the Kcarns St Anns orphanage the same ceremonies cere-monies were held bjr Father Klely V Lenten services at the Episcopal churches were well attended At 1 ain J a-in litany penitential office and holy communion were held and a sermon I preached and at 730 p m there wus evening prayer and an address at St Marks cathedral Dean Eddie conducted con-ducted both services In the morning he preached from Joel I 13 Rend your heart and not your garments and turn to the Lord yduf God for he Is generous merciful and full of kindness and repenlcth Win of the evil Repentance Re-pentance was the speakers theme and a special point was made of encourage j menL to this In the evening the Dean preached on the Lenten call from I Mark vi Gl 11 > Come ye apart by yourselves your-selves I Is 0 call to the tired and I discouraged to rest It Js a call to the backslider acall to learn the blessedness blessed-ness and power of personal religion At St Pauls church there was communion com-munion at 8 a mV with services and sermon at 1L a in Rector Ellis Bishop preached from the Psalm 1 Turn thy face from my sin and put out all my 1 misdeeds The discourse was on the purposes of Lent and the necessity of selfexamination and devotion In the I evening Rev Mllldge Walker of Hartford I Hart-ford Conn preached on conviction ot sin from the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee The former had conviction con-viction of sin while the Pharisee had not and should be moie like the publi can The central idea was that Christ came to convict the world of sin and save it Bishop Leonard made a Lenten address last evening at Rowland hall on the temptations of our Lord There I werp i also services yesterday at St Marks hospital and at SI Peters church Tho cathedral and 5S t Pauls have issued special cards giving the schedule sched-ule of tho special services to be held IdurlnS Lent and tomorrow evening Rev Mr Walker will lecture on Natural Natu-ral Law In the Spiritual World a review re-view of Drtimonds famous work |
