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Show Rev. Aloysius Farrell Rev. Farrell to Conduct Parish Mission in Moab Rev. Aloysius Farrell, director di-rector of Paulist Fathers missions miss-ions in ten states reaching from the Canadian to the Mexican border, will conduct a parish mission at St. Pius . Church at 7:30 each night from Sunday Jan. 23 through Friday Jan. 28. The purpose of this special series is to help all kinds of people to be better Christians in their thinking, their feelings and their daily activities. "We are constantly pressured pressur-ed by the forces of the world, some of them evil and harmful forces," the visiting mission ary explained, "and therefore it is hard to be yourself, and sometimes it is hard even to know yourself. We need Christ to set us free." A resident of Layton, Utah, he has served in every section of the continental U.S. and in eastern Canada, and for 30 years he has engaged exclusively exclu-sively in preaching spiritual renewal. 'The need for religious relig-ious teaching and motiviation is greater today than ever before," he said. 'In the face of the great baffling questions and challenges of life mankind cannot help feeling its own weakness and ignorance. Today's To-day's loneliness and despair is traceable to the lack of a personal relationship with God, on the part of many people. Boys and girls are a special concern of the veteran missionary. miss-ionary. He says their hearts are too often given over to excessive pursuit of fun, sports or the excitement of television with its distortion of the real world. "So many young people are missing the wonderful, beautiful, satisfying satisfy-ing spiritual dimension of life," he said. The hour-long services will consist of singing, prayer, celebration of the eucharist. and opportunity for reception of the sacrament of reconciliation. reconcilia-tion. During the day the Layton priest will be available j at the rectory for consultation either by telephone or face to face. This week of spiritual emphasis, em-phasis, according to the missionary, miss-ionary, is a time of growth, when greater visions and 6 opportunities are seen, when I mistakes are noted and corrected, cor-rected, when one's faith is enriched and strengthened, and when love and hope and enthusiams grow. The public will be welcome at any of these services. The missionary remarked that today, to-day, without giving up any of their personal beliefs, Christians Chris-tians are closer together. 'They realize," he said, "that after all we are all redeemed by the same Redeemer, created crea-ted by the same Creator, answerable to the same Judge, and believers ih the same ten commandments." |
