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Show COLORADO SPRINGS, j Trinity Sunday is the last day on which compliance with the regulations of the church regarding approach to the sacraments during the Easter season sea-son can be made. If any of our readers read-ers hasso far been neglectful of this important duty, let him make diligent use of the short time left. Certainly any one who wishes to be a Catholic will not deliberately cut himself off from the church. Memorial day is to a certain extent changing its character in Colorado Springs. Originally designed to serve aa an occasion for decorating the graves of those who had been soldiers during the civil war, it has extended itself to the decoration of all graves. In our prayers for, the dead we Catholics can do much more than merely decorating decorat-ing the graves of the departed. It is not only a mere bringing back to memory mem-ory of those departed, it is that, but also very much more. With next Monday we shall enter the beautiful month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (the month of roses), which mother church has dedicated to the heart most divine. Let us often co to church during this month and at His tabernacle learn the goodness of His Sacred Heart. Rev. P. M. Galligan, Mt. Pleasant. Pa., was a caller at the rectory on Monday. Very Rev. Dean G. Raber presided at a conference of the clergy held in Pueblo Pu-eblo on Tuesday, May 19. Very Rev. G. Raber of Colorado Springs and Rev. J. H. Brinker of Colorado Col-orado City, and Rev. F. Dilly, after attending at-tending the clerical conference on last Tuesday, left to attend the solemn funeral fu-neral services at the cathedral at Santa Fe, N. M.. of the late Most Rev. Archbishop Arch-bishop Bourgade, D. D.. There was a very large number of the clergy of the Denver diocese present, including our Right Rev. Bishop N. C. Matz. D. D. The Denver diocese belongs to the archdiocese arch-diocese of Santa Fe. Right Rev. N. C. Matz. D. D., bishop of Denver, was a caller at the rectory on Saturday. Rev. B. J. Fitzgerald, Pewee Valley, Ivy., made a call at the rectory on Wednesday. Father Fitzgerald is en route to the Pacific coast. |