Show Lent to Begin Wednesday And Continue Forty Days In Easter Easter Preparation Special Masses to Be Held in Catholic and Episcopalian Churches Ashes Will Be Blessed and Placed Upon Heads Lent which begins the solemn preparation for the feast of Easter the most sacred day of the church year will ill open Ash Wednesday March 6 in all Catholic and Episcopal ch churches The day 40 devotional period will end Easter Sunday April 21 when every denomination in Salt Lake City will commemorate Christs Christ's resurrection from the dead deap Ash Wednesday the entrance sate gate galeto to the Lenten season and Passion Passion- tide which is celebrated the last two weeks of the 40 days will he be featured with special masses in m Catholic and Episcopal churches church s Masses l will be celebrated at the Cathedral of or the Ma clein at 7 7 8 and nd 9 a. a m. m The Most Rev James E E. Kearney D. D D D. bishop of the Salt Lake diocese of the Catholic church will say sar the ma mass s at 9 a. a m. m services throughout Lent church officials said The Right Rev Re Arthur W V. Moulton D. D D D. bishop of the Utah diocese of the Episcopal church will vill celebrate holy communion Wednesday at 1030 a. a am m. m in St St. Marks Mark's cathedral Litany also w will be observed Bishop Moulton Moul Maul ton will ilI deliver the sermon at s services services ser ser- rices r. r vices ices Wednesday at p p. p m m. Similar Similar Similar Simi Simi- lar services will vill be conducted at St. St Pauls Paul's church Bishop Moulton announced that services will be held daily in Episcopal Episcopal Episcopal Epis Epis- copal churches during the Lenten sea sea- son As a feature of or the Wednesday services services ser sere vi vices es the ashes wilt will be blessed and placed upon the heads of or the faithful aft after r all aU services in Catholic and Episcopal churches that day Prior PriOlo t to the opening of or Ash Wednesday local Catholics will observe ob serve the Nov Novena na of Grace in honor honorof of St. St Francis Xavier Monday March 4 until Tuesday March 12 The Rev John H H. McCummiskey S. S J. J editor of Jesuit Missions will come to Salt Lake City to preach a as s series ries of sermons each evening at p m. m in the Cathedral of f the Madeleine S Special cial mass of the Novena Noena No No- vena ena will be celebrated each morning morn ing at l 9 o'clock Regular ma masses es wIllbe will willbe willbe be at 7 and 8 a. a m. m Bishop Kearney Kearne will wilt celebrate solemn sol sal ol pontifical mass Sunday March 10 10 at 1030 a a. a m m. in honor of or St St. Francis Xavier The Rev Father McCummiskey Mc Me- Cummiskey will deliver a sermon on In Xavier's Footsteps Today Closing the service of the Novena Bishop Kearney will conduct panegyric panegyric panegyric pane pane- Tue Tuesday at p. p m. m and Father McCummiskey will sp speak ak on St Sf Francis Xavier the Apostle followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed b by solemn benediction of ot the thel blessed sacrament |