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Show !' Diocese of Denver ELIZABETH KELLY, Correspondent. The Intermountain and Colorado . Catholic is placed cn Bale at the (i James Clarke church goods house. 617 California street Denver. Colo. Easter in Denver. "While fashionable Denver may have Bulked all day over the capers of the elements, spiritual Denver had .a delightful de-lightful Easter. The religrious side of the prea-test festival on the ecclesiastical ecclesiasti-cal calendar Mas given more thought this year than ever before. It is roughly rough-ly estimated that 8.P0O people approached ap-proached holy communion at the early JnornliiR masses. t This ftiet was immensely im-mensely gratifying to the pastors, who d light more in the tpiritual growth of th-ir parishes thon on the splendid financial showing that all the churches are making ju?t now. At the laet moment the plans for Easter services in the pro-cathedral were changed. Hishop Mats? .deciding to elcbrate high mass at daybreak. The niass o. tne J correction, as It was im-. im-. presfclvely called, was begun at i:45 o'clock on Easter morning. The boy' choir sang: the mass, led by Father V. X. Henegan. who had trained them. The .Impel r-.iulil not accommodate the throng which tried to gain admittance. When the hour for communion arrived ar-rived men and women walked in from the threshold of the church to approach the altar. At the 7 o'clock mass the crowd was almost equally great, and practically every person present re-I cived holy communion. It was the same, state of affairs everywhere. And It wns not elaborate faster pennons nor : pecial music alone that was responsible, responsi-ble, for at the Kcrvfccs which were unattended un-attended by music the churches were filled. Bishop Matz preached at the last mass in Inga.n avenue chapel on Sunday Sun-day on "The Triumph of Christ." Easter, 190?. was a bad day for hats !1i spring finery, but perhaps for this very reason' its religious significance Was not lost sight of. The choirs were nil at their best. Over at St. Elizabeth's Eliza-beth's church Miss? Josephine Woeber's hoir did the best work they have ever loi! The program was mixed, the best of Gounod and Haydn being selected to make up the mass. Ixihmann's orchestra or-chestra assisted Miss Clara Woeber in ! furnishing the accompaniment. The program for high mass began with Gounod's "Unfold Ye Portals," and nrieludod w'th Meyerbeer's "Corona- iioii aisrcn. 'i no soloists wore Miss Isabel Jacobs, Miss Josephine Woeber Mrs. Howard Sleeper. Mrs. Marry Mc-Craw, Mc-Craw, Messrs. Bucher. Griff and Evans. Ev-ans. At. St. Leo's church Professor Peter Menzies bad the musical program as usual. Signor Raffaelo Cavallo's or-chestra or-chestra assisted the choir. With Mis? Mary Elizabeth McGovern at the organ. Schubert's mass In F was given. Father Fa-ther O'Ryan preached on "He is Risen Indeed." The soloists of the occasion were Miss Alice Chase. Mrs. Bertha Becker rotter. Mrs. Decker, Mrs. Horace Hor-ace S. Cooper. James A. Grant. George A. Kerwfn, Peter Menzies and Dr R W. Arndt. Professor Joseph A. Michel of the 7m-rnaculate 7m-rnaculate Conception cathedral choir had his singers give a mass of bin own composition for Easter. It was a happv medium between the severely classical initio of the masters and the verv strlot Gregorian chant. The singers there were Miss Rcssfe Wilder. Mrs Alvah Cook. Miss Wanda Gotteslehen. Mrs. Emilic Hrandt. Miss Marie Tobin. Miss Helen McGovern. Miss Mabel , Kuaehner, Miss Clara Jenkins. William Sayer. J. A. Hottler. Forrest Rutherford. Ruther-ford. Roy Smith, Al Cassidy, William ( hamberlain and X. 11. Vote. Mrs. Fred P. Johnson directed the Easter music at Sacred Heart church. , Oounod's "Messe Solonelle" was sung by quartette choir and Chorus Hauk presided at the organ, and the soloists so-loists were Mrs. John R. Schilling. Mrs H. P. Dickinson. Mrs. Johnson, W G l oreman and Louis A. Rellly. Paolo Giorza's mass was sung at St Joseph's church, with Miss May Sullivan Sulli-van at the organ. The singers there were Mrs. W. R. Leonard. Miss Fran-5 Fran-5 j . ces Hamilton, Miss Agnes Sullivan, j Miss Mae Creedon, Miss Emma Mes- I kew. Mrs. Walter Daily. Robert Mc- ;u,u v Bacrs, John Mullen. 1 :!?.sopl M,,urrn' and Leo Desjardins. - Stella Creedon assisted on the Violin. 5 Easter collections, too. were a success . At Wan avenue chapel about J2 000 T.PTts the aniou,1t of the offerings, j AJ trick's church $800 was given, i ' At M. Patrick's the services were e- i penally impressive., because this is . j i probably the last Easter to be spent in i J1' church which for twentv-six vears ?. has been the house of worsiiln foV the I b'K riorth sid congregation. Next vear - ln "uW Vlission church, a block avav . M ,1' he tn? "cene of the Easter pro- il Rram- - At Logan avenue chapel, .r,00 people 1 5 received holy communion on Easter . j: morning. ) Collections for Cathedral. t : : T 'I'tate the work of collecting ;. ' bjc rlpt ons for the new cathedral lih7, U- L' McMenamfn. the pastor 'I ,,as vided the cathedral parish into 'Jteen districts. He will appoint an I energetic man for each district to at- 1 ' lrnd ,l . ,,P rnI'fon of subscriptions. cnn, KiR" their names to promises of I generous offerings, but because it is in- I vonven.,prrt to think each month to send !'.'an "Jstallmont much time is lost to ,n Priests. Under the new svstem the muny AVl11 Probably be paid "regularly Church Notes. Thc Parochial schools of the citv re- S Fumed their regular classes on Tues- I f.ay owning, after the Easter vaca- t lion. j Father David O'DwyTr, pastor of the! f Catholic church at Glen wood Springs I 1 was In Denver for a day earlv this' I WK-',H left on Tuesday for New j lretani:,t5" l " th? Luthala for I . Tiv adult inverts were received chne CalholiC fait" at " avenue chapel on Sunday afternoon. Another baptism was that of Gertrude Elizabeth Eliza-beth Hughes, an infant. ThFeowL?,reg4 M of gt' Thomas' Theologca seminary, assisted in the .ljL,W..5enices. at Logan avenue I .'77, x au,ir r ecy or the same in- f FtitutJon participated in the Easter de- votionB at the chapel. i -Ji?r?,n Dramatic dub delighted delight-ed Its friends on Tuesday evening of this woek by giving the four-act western west-ern drama, "Wyoming." at St. Eliza- I st Vincent's Aid Society. f lidMJ", rth:e pf St- Vincent's I A!d, iPty held on Tuesday. April 6 I with Mrs. William Bayer. The follow c"rolle1 s new members: r ' - ilrs- J p- Murphy, Mrs. M. Bohr; Mrs. H. Marshall, Mrs. Paul Tobin, Mrs. F. L. Davis, Mrs. M; J. Galligan and Mrs. M. A. Murray. Sacred Heart Aid Society. The Sacred Heart Aid society met Thursday afternoon, April 13, at the home of Mrs. Alvin Boyle. 12S0 St. Paul street. The gathering was a large and enthusiastic one, and much business of importance was transacted. Each meeting meet-ing withnesses an increase in the membership mem-bership ot the Sacred Heart Aid society, until it is now the largest aid society in the city. C. B. A. Ball. The ball given Monday evening. April 12. by St. Mary's branch. Ladies' Catholic Cath-olic Benevolent association, realized the most sanguine hopes of. the committee having it in charge. Granada hall was filled and a general good time prevailed. pre-vailed. Good Shepherd Aid Society. The Good Shepherd Aid association held its regular meeting Tuesdav nft-temoon, nft-temoon, April 13. at the home of Mrs. Thomas F. Dolan. 3140 Stout street. St. Ann's Aid Society. Great preparations are in progress for the ball to be given in aid of St. Ann's foundlings' home on the evening of May 4. A generous sum of money has already been subscribed, and it is hoped that the ball will add enough to the fund to make possible the immediate imme-diate erecticn of the home. Over a year ago St. Vincent's Aid society purchased pur-chased six lots on Franklin street . in the vicinity of St. Joseph's hospital, and on this site the home will be buiit. The following well known people of Denver are lending their financial an.1 moial support to the enterprise: President, Pres-ident, Michael Finncrty: secretary. John L. Hesse: ticket committee: Mrs. E. P. McGovern, chairman: Mrs. Charles Crowley, Mrs. M. J. O'Fallon, Mrs. Michael Finnerty. Mrs. Fred Boyet and Philip McCarty: refreshment refresh-ment committee. Mrs. Fred K. Paul. Mrs. John Curran. Mrs. C. M. McCabe. Mrs. Rice, Mrs. Tulliss and Miss Julia McLaughlin. Patronesses. Mrs. John F. Campion. Mrs. John W. Benson, Mrs. Joseph Walsh. Mrs. Edward Keating, Mrs. Joseph P. Dunn. Mrs. Joseph A. Os-ner. Os-ner. Mrs. P. Mulrooney. Mrs. Fred Moffat L Mrs. William Saver. Mrs. Joseph Jo-seph P. Donley. Mrs. William J. My-kins. My-kins. Mrs. J. J. Brown. Mrs. Fred K. Secord. Miss Georgie Hughes. M.s Lilian Gates. Mrs. George T. Kearnn, Mrs. Caldwell Teaman, Mrs. J. K. Mullen and Mrs. ,T. E. O'Connor. ' Regina Coeli Orpphanage. ! The children or Regina Coeli Villa enjoyed a. delightful Easter dinner through the kindness of the members of the Queen of Heaven Aid society. Sacred Heart College. The boys of Sacred Heart college suffered a keen disappointment last Saturday when the long anticipated baseball game with the state university univer-sity team was postponed. A message was received from Boulder to the er-fect er-fect that the grounds there were in a deplorable condition on account of the snowstorm that raged nearly all week. The participants in the annual execution exe-cution contest at Sacred Heart college were selected last week at a trial contest. con-test. Five boys were chosen from the senior division and an equal number from the tanks of the Juniors The contest con-test will take place at the college in May. i Personal. Miss Marie Shecdy and Miss Florence Sheedy entertained on Monday at a pansy luncheon '.n honor of Miss House of New York and Miss Sharp of Columbus, Co-lumbus, O., who are visiting Denver friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Faricll. who have been residing in Denver for the part few years, expect to leave during the week for their old home In Covington. Ivy., to remain. Mr. and Mrs. Farrell made many friends during their stay n Denver, who will be sorry to lose them. One of the pretty Easter luncheons of the week was the one at which Miss Blanche Ryan was hostess and Miss Grace Griffith guest of honor. i A. B. Kennedy and family will soon j move into the cathedral parish. Mr. Kennedy having purchased a beautiful home at 1265 Mumboldt street, j I Mrs. Robert Craig and children, w ho j have been abroad for over a year, wli; reach home about the first of May. 'f Mrs. M. Kirkpatrick. who has been In poor health for some time, is very much Improved and expects to ieave soon for California to fully recuperate. Clark Rutterneid left last week for Minnenpolis. where he will remain for Indefinite period. I " Mrs. Frederick Hunt Wood was one J of the charming hostesses of the week. She was assisted in entertaining at an elaborate bridge luncheon by Miss Florence Andrew, Miss Arline Monarch. Mon-arch. Miss Helen Merryweather and Miss Marguerite Chamberlin. Mrs. W. J. Parkinson is somewhat improved in health, though stili confined con-fined to her room. |