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Show ! THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC1 1$ The dedication ceremonies began at ten oclock with a profession of one hundred boys and one hundred girls marching from the old Cathedral to the new and singing hymns of praise as they marched. At the rear of the new Cathedral a profession of clergy was formed r headed by a and two acolytes. Services were held outside and then the procession entered the Church. At the end came the Right Reverend Denis OConnell, Bishop of San Francisco, who represented Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco. He pronounced the dedication, blessing each portion of the Cathe dral and then the people were admitted to the Church for the Solemn Pontifical Mass which followed. The Mass was celebrated by Bishop Scanlan assisted by the Very Reverend Denis Kiely as Deacon, the Very Reverend J. J. Guinan the Reverend George T. McCa rthy, Master of Ceremonies, and the Very Revas erend Dean Harris as Arch-priesOther prelates assisting in the sanctuary w ere His Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore; Most Reverend John J. Glennon, Archbishop of St. Louis; the Most Reverend J. Doppenwill, Archbishop of Vancouver; the Right Reverend J. S. Foley, Bishop of Detroit; the Right Reverend Richard Seannell, Bishop of Omaha; the Right Reverend J. J. Keane, Bishop of Cheyenne; the Right Reverend A. J. Glorioux, Bishop of Boise; the Right Reverend John J. Carroll, Bishop of Helena; the Right Reverend Monsignor of Los Angeles; the Reverend S. J. Sullivan of Butte; the Patrick Hartnett, Vicar-GenerReverend William ORyan of Denver; the Reverend H. R. McIntosh of Idaho; the Reverend J. C. McGovern of Emmitsburg, Maryland; the Reverend Father McCabe of Idaho Springs, Colorado; the Reverend P. M. Cushnahan of Ogden, the Reverend James Butler of Tonopah, Nevada; the Reverend Timothy Brennan of Bingham; and the Reverend Fathers A. J. Ryan, W. K. Ryan, M. Curran and William J. Collins of Salt Lake. The sermon was preached by Archbishop Glennon and was as follows: cross-beare- Sub-deaco- n, t. al Today we dedicate to Almighty God, our merciful Father, this new and beautiful temple. And we place it under the auspices of the great saint who, representing humanity in her penitence, heard from the blessed Saviour the words of consolation: Thy sins arek forgiven thee because thou hast loved much. It was she who became in her penitence and devotion the illustrious follower of the Master, rejoicing with Him in His joy, following Him in His journey to the cross, and at that place by others deserted standing with Mary, His mother, at the foot of the cross; she was to be the last beneath the shadow of the dying Saviour and the first to welcome Him risen from the tomb. It is her forgiveness and life that remain for all time the sublime expression of the great charity of our Lord and Saviour, He who will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax. Who came to save sinners, to call them to repentance, to bring back the lost sheep of the house of Israel and to teach that, however bruised and broken the individual be, yet that human life, though a broken vessel, is still deemed worthy of the life and sacrifice of the Almighty. This is, therefore, a day when Gods mercy to man should stand as the first lesson of our beautiful ceremony. It must be a day of special joy, and of special thanksgiving for your venerable Bishop, who now sees crowned the labor of many years, and today watches the transferring of this majestic temple from the hands that toiled in its uplighting, to the Lord for Whom it was built. Again, it is an auspicious day, for have you not with you a group of prelates so numerous as rarely to be seen in the Western land men individually eminent in their various Dioceses as in the Church at large? And yet they are pleased to be with you and your Bishop on this occasion. Auspicious is it because of these distinguished visitors from outside, and particularly because at their head today, in this sanctuary, as at their head in all these United States, stands that prince among prelates, that prince of the Church Universal, His Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons. It is a long way from here to Baltimore. It is longer from here to Rome, yet distance is today overcome, and the pleasing spectacle is presented of the prince pastor of Santa Maria in Trastevere coming to greet his brother, the pastor of Santa Maria in Salt Lake City. Lastly is it an auspicious day because it is the feast of the Mother, the feast of the Virgin, the Assumption Day of the Queen, the feast known wherever the Church is known as the Lady Day of Christendom and the Church. I would ask your thought for this feast of ours, because it is the feast day of the blessed Mother, and because through our blessed Lords public ministry as well, and particularly toward its close, the Mary whose feast we celebrate and the Mary to whom a i i i j 4 |