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Show t t t P VALENTINES DAY Just Msfiling SHARING LOVE...AND WHATEVER ELSE By Angela Heaton The Traveling Nuns came prepared to conquer and if possible to surmount every obstacle . . They - Story and picture by Kathryn Vilips It was in November of 1S75, almost one hundred years after the Crossing of the Fathers, that Father Lawrence J. Scanlan reported to the Before I birthed my of Holy Cross from St. Mary's, South Bend, Indiana, arrived here on the sixth of last June. I he outlook was then wild and gloomy - but they were not discouraged. They came prepared to encounter, and if possible to surmount every obstacle. ..without losing a moment brooding over the hardships. ..or suffering. These sisters have done more to remove prejudice and give tone and prominence to our cause than we priests could have done tth many years of hard work " They first came by train, riding the rails westward to establish a hospital in Sait Lake City, more themselves, giv g "prepared to encounter, and if still pos-sihl-e, to surmount every obstacle. Sister Yvonne, a tall slender young woman with penetrating line eyes, said, "Wc do not knock on doors, but wc are there if wc arc needed, for both active and Catholics." Asked about the traditional habit worn by the nuns, and whether it is sol! being worn, both of them answered in unison, "Only by the oldei ones'." They mentioned one nun who changed from the traditional habit to modem dress because she did not want to fie thought of as "old." There is more d. Jogue now-and more freedom of choice in where one is sent, and what they non-activ- e , wer. Sister Ruth, cuiled ..o on .'he sria, wealing an aitrac c sweater a id dark uucks; looki'M like the ,cu door, i sard,. 4.1,1 iht-tri- - k.aii te- - r. o ,i:i Imi' a: .s Sun, and me Sn, it ': as as d long they alhight, us the Skinny Nun - and the Fat i i Nun!" I athcr Anthony Vollmer, who f.rst came tr Kanab in Octob-r1983 said th. he once received a call irom Idaho from a mother who wanted him to go to , laie-nifc- ht Fredorda in the middle of the nit la to assist her son, who was strandc J without money and without credit cards. Father Vollmer underwent open heart surgery and was not physically able to go out in the noddle of the night - but he went, even though the young man in distress was not a Catholic. He is sometimes awakened iri the middle ol the night by someone seeking help. Despite bis lragilc health; Father Vollmer does not hesitate to answer the cal! of someone who needs lum. 1 athcr Vollmer serves, and the Sisters serve - as the fathers have h.-n serving those iri need lor more than two hundred years, as they blazed trails across tins inhospitable land. Names like Escalante, Crossing of die Fathers, the San Juan River, . THE j Gregg Glenn, Director of the Office of Liturgy In the Salt Lake City Catholic Church Diocese was in Kanab to speak on the Eucharist He is pictured with Sister Ruth and Sister Yvonne who travel to five parishes to assist Father Vollmef of St Christophers in Kanab, and Father Valine in Cedar City. and other settlements and rivers in Utah, rcPect the milucncc of the early cxjoreis sent to establish missions in the New World. It was on July 2 ), 1776 that the Dominguc7-Escabni- expedition e first entered Utah Valley throi gh Spanish Toil Canvon. It is there, on Dominguez Hdl. that on January 4, Hm; a steel cross, 37 feet high, was elected to com men. orate llmt cxpcdn.on. The journal kept by the fathers from JuL 2d, 1776 ihmugh January 2, I r 77, morded the crossing of the Giand Canyon; the visits of Faiher Francisco A. Dominguez, and Father Slice sire V. de Escalante, both from the Franciscan Piovmce of Mexico City; to the Moqui and die Zuni lii'huns, and die of Santa le m 1777. The purpose of the journal was to record the daily itinciary of the expedition. Bernard DeVoto called it 'die most serene document in the annals of Amen; n "p ;auou , s w is St. CVn fa abbs' 'u t in Karwh lb by F- h.i j v h 1 fiCi " . iv o,. ,i on j4 . . si,' to . . AjlkeJs v i IjCac to Cif n Car" n while die dam was being bu U J age was ml established at that tune. The ninety-on- e year ole Father VaLric, who was written up m Ft c pie Magazine, was given the J'mmate nickname because 1 e mat .s doughnuts, bags them, dim se!7 .hmn with coilee, r Ins missionary to raise money projects. Sister Yvonri., and Sister Ruth v. ;rc in Kanab rcceatb , along with Greg Glc n Diieclor of me Office ol L.tup i .a the Salt Lafe City Ir. Gler ri v as in Kanab Diocese to spcal on the Luclunst at St. i i I),. , Oi.nstoptiu s. Sister Yvonne and Sister Ruth ire boih living in Cedar City, hut spend much of their erne traveling to the live parishes in southern Utah. Both ol them had been teachers in huger uiies. Sister Yvonne was horn in Valhjo. California and had taught in Los Angc les, Ogden and Idaho I alL and lei: she needed a change in ministry. Sister Ruth was born in Berkley, Caliiornia and had taught iri California and in Seattle. The vivacious Sister Ruth said, "During my time BODY SHOP (Formerly Kanab Tanning) GRAND OPENING t Thursday, Feb. 9 - 2 til 7 p.m. Stop in and meet the new owners Renee, Alice and Linda Archer i I first baby, I I gently led my could stand the husband by the pressure no hand, into the more. No longer flower shop. I would he have to showed him blues." hear, "Can you what kind of believe? My plant I wanted has husband hin to bring never, ever, no me while I was in the hospital. It wds in his life not ever given me ever a delicate vine plant that I planned to On Valentine's flowers." Day he nurture and protect through the years the didn't flower to went (I shop. then give it to my child as a wedding A drive few have even to him.) gift, with a lump in my throat. I minutes later he brought me a deshowed him which planter to get if it canter with a rosebud in it. I was was a boy and which one to get if it deeply touched, moved beyond was a girl. I gave him every detail . words. I looked into his face, a . . I told him he could go ahead and timeless moment we shared. Then write on the card himself. his huge grin appeared and he said, The hospital stay eventually did in an excited voice, "You wouldn't come and so did my husband, but believe how cheap it was! I thought never with flowers. All he brought at a flower shop was supeverything every time was a huge smile . . . how be to posed expensive!" My rude! Another baby came and went was shattered. with this same kind of treatment Last year I had, what I hope was. There was a woman at the hospimy final stay at a hospital. I told tal in a bed next to mine. She had Duke this was his chance to redeem four beautiful flower arrangements himself. After nearly nine years of to surround herself with. I meekly and one rosebud, the day marriage first this asked.'ls baby?" No," your of reckoning had finally arrived she replied. "This is my fourth." with postpartum v of four years of he marriage have a feeling Im going to be racked Propagation of the Faith in P urn, 'The Sisters of Congregation than one bundled years ago. They were the Holy Cross Sisters from St Mary's, in Indiana, and they came to minister to the miners; the workers on the railroads, the orphans, the mountain men, the pioneer settlers, and to the Indians. The Holy Cross Sisters are still traveling, from parish to parish, visiting the sick, the elderly, teaching and assisting the priests in five parishes across southern Utah; still Your flowers are gorgeous," I offered. "Thanks," she said. "My husband gave them to me. One bouquet foreverychild so far." "How thoughtful," I mused. "Pardon me if I pull the curtains, I have a feeling I'm going to be racked with postpartum blues." Finally, after Violets are blue. Roses are red. If you don't send me flowers You'll find a lump on your head. Are any of your husbands as hard headed as mine when it comes to romance? Drawing for 5 free tones Also 5 free tens Grand Opening Special through the month of February 10 tones - $45 plus 2 free 10 tans - $35 plus 2 free New owners will honor all unused tickets from former owners thru March 10, 1989 Native American Catholics. They expressed a deep-fe- lt anguish that they are no longer able to raise their children according to dicir ancient heritage; to teach their children the old ways," no longer able to icadi them the art of tracking, the awareness of unity of all fife; the vision quest by which their teenage boys become men. They feel their sacred culture is gradually dying. They have succeeded tn combining their Catholic Christianity with their tribal reverence for the Great Spirit, and their ties to Mother Earth. They have a spirituality that is deeply profound and reverential." Asked how they adjusted to the change from a large city and its conveniences, to traveling in all kinds of weather to the small parishes in Utah. Sister Ruth said. It has taken me longer to get a handle on everything. I have a real sense ol respect arid gratitude, for the 1 pi Jests and nuns. have a growing mspcU for everybody. The Holy Spiel is 4. uve na only iu our p jests, nurs and brothers, but very much in our lay people. There is an awareness of God w their lives, and U rs not always that person whom wc think of as being really religious. "I am aware of how much God reaches out to people. It is not only in religion. People, in a surprising variety of ways have a marvelous perception ol God, and wonderful dungs to share. "1 expected my ministry to be a giving, a sharing - but how enriching it is to experience the goodness of such a variety of people." Faiher Vollmer was asked how lie fell about die nuns who came to help in his ministry. Everyone laughed and Sister Yvonne, said "Now be kind. Father Vollmer smiled and said "It is important for the Sisters to be active in die various parishes. They have a lot to contribute to die people. They are supportive of our persons working in die educational systems." Father Vollmer 'old of the his- tory ol Silver Reef wheie there were once between 10,000 and 15,000 people. Tfie Catholics established St. Johns Hospital, St Mary's School and St John's Church in Silver Reef for die miners in 1879. On May 18, 1879, Father Scanlan oficred mass in the newly completed Mormon Tabernacle in St. George at the invitation of his Fiend, John McFarlarie, a deputy U.S. Mineral Surveyor at Silver Reef. The tabernacle choir sang; 3,000 people attended this mass, the first high mass celebrated in southern Utah. Father Vollmer shared the re- cently published book, Salt Of The Firth, a history covering die lime ol fathers Dominguez and Escalante to the present day. It is a lascinating study recording the struggles and the triumphs of those who gave up their personal lives to serve others, traveling on foot, on horseback, and as Father Scanlan wrote to the Propagation of Fauh in Pans on November 2, 1888, "...we have to travel day and night in cold and comfortless stages over roads rough and sometimes almost impassable through snow..." They still travel day and night, though no longer in comfortless stages; Sister Yvonne and Sister Ruth, and others like them, who still serve those who need them. They are the Holy Cross Sisters; the 1 raveling Nuns. In Ccse of Emergency Call 644-266- 7 YOU CAN GET! With several surgeries wrapped up in one dose of anesthesia, I told him I deserved a spectacular set of flowers. Patiently I waited, that's about your only alternative in a hospital. Then when the day of dismissal arrived, so did Duke. "Uh. Did you still want me to buy those flowers?" Aaurgh!! I give up! I wish Danielle S teele would have a workshop for women entitled, You, yes you . , . Can really squeeze romance out of your turnip." I'd be sitting in the front row. BOOKMOBILE SCHEDULE Kanab Schools Thursday: March 16, April 13, May 11 Kanab Middle School 8:30 a.m. 10:30 am. -- Kanab Elementary School 11:00 am-3.0- 0 p.m. Johnson Canyon 3.45 p.m. -- 4:15 p.m. self-estee- m in Seattle, I was able to attend the annual convocation of the Pacific Northwest FOR IS iI it , rtf Kanab Ranchos 4:30 p.m. 5:15 p.m. -- Eddsy: February 3, March 3, April 28, 26 May Kanab Elementary School 11:00 - 3:00 p.m. j&SSteAlr' vv s f-- 'f V 4 CM Another bit the Kanab snow, along with freezing temperatures was thrown on much of the western part of the nation, and was not left ouf In the distribution of white and coil Several more Inches of sno wera race zed along with freezing temperatures. of a-- ea Family Fun 3nd NQnSenSe BY MymaCox THE OLD SPRING THAW One evening around the fire 1 was listening to my pa "the "spring thaw" is comm, 1 know it's comm, ma." I'd never heard of die old "spring thaw," It chilled me to the bone. 1 snuggled close to mama, and the security of my home. That night 1 couldn't sleep at all, it unnerved me so. The old "spring tliaw" was comm cause papa told me so. I envisioned some big creature, all hairy dark and big, jc lukm in the springtime, to snatch some little kid. 1 watched out the window afraid to go to bed, cause visions of the old spring thaw, kept ctiumin in my head. I hollered at my Momma 1 thought 1 saw it there, a lurkin in Die hallway down below pie bedroom stair. Mamma didn't hear me, so I got a nice big suck, I'd give that old "spring tliaw" an awful son of lick. My heart was wildly pounding as I whacked Dial old "spring tliaw" It seemed so peculiar. It sounded just like Pa. Now, 1 know about the old "spring thaw, Pa explained it real good. His head sail aches a bit, where I clubbed lam with the wood. 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