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Show I 06 DEM, UTAH. j May Devotions. ( Special Correspondence.) "What is fairer, what is rarer, than our Lady's May procession? . AVhat is nearer to a foretaste of a more than earthly b!is-? Vhl no pleasure, ad, no treasure of our l::tcr life's possession Can compare with all tho sweetness and the innocence of this!" . The telling lines of Denis .. McCarthy Mc-Carthy were assuredly echoed bv all who witnessed the procession and coronation cor-onation of Our Blessed Mother at St. Joseph's church on tho evening of May 31. This little ceremony is one w hich serves as an -object lesson to ali. This year, owing to the spiritual effects ef-fects of the late successful mission, the coronation of Our Blessed Mother was surrounded with greater solemnity solemni-ty and marked with greater outpourings outpour-ings of devotion and spiritual love. At 7:30 250 white devotees marched in double line from the Sacred Heart academy to St. Joseph's church. Miss Belle Spencer headed the procession with the sodality baner. On reaching the church Miss A. Colton presented the offerings made by the members of the sodality. These heart offerings were repeated by Misses Mae and Jennie. Jen-nie. Tarter in solos that were heart-inspiring. heart-inspiring. Miss Belle Spencer placed the crown on the Virgin's head. During Dur-ing tho coronation 250 voices entoned. in joyful strains, hymns of praise and love. The act of consecration was read by Miss Ella O'Xeil. This was followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. FIRST COMMTTNIOV. "In Our Lady's month of beauty, in our Lady's month of May." "Somebody is coming, somebody is coming, somebody is coming," repeated Father Rosswinckle to the happy first communicants who Thursday morning, morn-ing, May 30. began the immediate preparation prep-aration for the greatest of all great days, and on Sunday, June 2, 1907, the real solemnity of the Feast of Corpus Christi. tho close of the great mission at St. Joseph's, the God of heaven and earth came for the first time into their pure hearts. At 8:30 a. m., before flower-decked altars, al-tars, in the presence of loving narents, these priviledged little ones filed into their pews while exultant strains from the choir told of the coming of Isreal's King. How- many eyes in that vast edifice saw through sorrow mists of tears, as they reviewed the blessed morning when they, too, had first been admitted to the banquet of love! How many hearts beat once again with renewed re-newed fervor as they remembered the instant when the God . of heaven first rested in their youthful hearts! How-many How-many long-forgotten promises were renewed, re-newed, how many broken vows re-plighted re-plighted as the shadowed vista of years was brightened by the loving sunlight of a long past First Communion Day! Immediately after the gospel the profession pro-fession of faith was made in v. clear, distinct manner. As the happy moment drew nearer Rev. Father Rosswinckle. S. J.. who had so untiringly, so earnestly been preparing them for the great moment, addressed them from a heart overflowing: overflow-ing: with emotion. After exDressinsr his inability to find words on such an occasion, oc-casion, his thoughts naturally turned to future years, the thorny paths, the 4torm clouds nigh, and he voiced the sentiment, of older heads and time-saddened time-saddened souls when he wished that he niight take their young hearts and pre serve them as pure as they were this b(!essed morning. As the longed-for njioment approached little Louise Murray Mur-ray of Rock Springs read the acts before be-fore holy communion, and then, in silcmn procession, the happy little ones fiied into the sanctuary and partook of tine Bread of Life. Could mortal eyes lpave lifted the veils of sense that, ob- ? cured them, what hosts of angels vould we. have seen crowding the (hurch. what joy heaven knew at that moment ! '"O, little souls! as pure and white And crystalline as rays' of light. Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years. How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!" The grand close of the mission took place Sunday night. June 2. An eloquent elo-quent sermon by Father Donohor, S. J., Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Sacra-ment and the Jarial Benediction marked the farewell of the grand Je-uiis Je-uiis who have labored so successfully, so untiringly among the people of St. ' Joseph's. Bishop Scanlan will confer the Sacrament of Continuation next Sunday. Magnificent exercises wore held at St. Joseph's church in Ogden this morning, morn-ing, this being the closing day of the mission of the two weeks' service by the Jesuit priests. Fathers DonaheV -ind Rosswinckle. who ended their Ogden Og-den mission tonight. There was mass at 6 a. m. and S:30 but the high mass at 10:30 was one of the greatest since the mass at the jubilee ju-bilee of Father Cushnahan a year ago this month. It was celebrated by Father Fath-er Rosswinckle. and the music was one of the highest class. Emerson's mass in E Hat was svmg. and there was a full choir with all v voices. The offertory. Ave Marie, was sung by Miss Mayme Carter, and her rendition, together with the sacred character of the music mu-sic and the occasion, was very inspiring inspir-ing on the congregation of St. Joseph. The two weeks' mission services at St. Joseph's Catholic church ended tonight to-night before a congregation that filled every seat in the church. The Sermon tonight was by Father Donaher of the missions. When Father Donaher had finished Father Rosswinckle took the pulnit and In a characteristic talk congratulated con-gratulated St. Joseph's parish on its fine church and good, cleanly condition, addressed the altar society, congratulated congratu-lated its members on the beauty of the sanctuary, which Is under their care, and spoke of the beneficience and good qualities of their pastor, the Rev. Father D. M. Cushnahan. He said that the pastor who has presided over a parish for twenty-five years and has built such a magnificent church must of necessity be all right. There were many injections of humor in Father Kosswinckle s address. He announced that he would deliver to the congregation congrega-tion the papal benediction He read his authority from the Pope to perforin this act first in Latin and then in English, Eng-lish, and then began the prayer of the benediction. He interrupted himself before he had proceeded" far. and expressed himself as "follows: "AVe desire to acknowledge the courtesies that the press of . Ogden and the Salt Lake City Tribune have given and extended to us throughout these missions, and the earthly support sup-port that their efforts in publishing the ; news of our missions has brought to i the church." The father then went on with his supplication, which included ; blessings and divine protection for the president of the United States, all of ' the legislative and judicial bodies of the general government, and especially ', for the state government of L'tah. and . again included the Salt Lake Tribune. The music tonight was of an excep- ' tional character and fittingly closed ', the meeting. Mia Mayme Carter sang . an Ave Maria. Miss Mae Conroy ren- dered "Veni Creator," and other solos ' were sung by Mrs. Dan Laughran, J Miss Irene Tomasek and Miss Daisy , Maginnis. The Te Deum 'Laudamus" was?sung by the choir. Salt Lake Tri- ' bune, June 2. j W. E. Whalen. son of Mr. and Mrs. . Thomas Whalen of Ogden. who is studying medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, is home for the sumtner 't vacation. He has one more year in the college, and then two years' work in hospitals. i |
