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Show : 1 1 Diocese of Denver ELIZABETH KELLY, Correspondent. f The Interiountain and Colorado ; J Catholic i3 placed en sale at the ; h James Clarke church goods house, 617 i ; 1 California etreei. Denver, Colo. ' ; CHRISTMAS SERVICES. . j Amid ail the Christmas festivities the ' . ' ! religious significance of the day was r f borne clearly to the minds and hearts . , ' t j o Catholics in Denver by the splen- ;. : j dor and beauty of the services in all - : : the churches of the city. Everywhere ' was the same story of lights and ' ' ! flowers, beautiful music and devout . i congregations, while some of " the 5 i .'I , j churches had set up a tiny representa- : . h : i I tion of the first Christmas. Shortly ! , , after 4 o'clock the faithful might be seen wending their way to service, and ; ' the pews were filled long before the ; i ' , , :! solemn pealing of the organ rose in a ; ; , , great hymn of praise, and 5 o'clock j . : mass had begun. In Logan Avenue chapel Right Hev. Bishop Matz pontificated pontifi-cated at solemn high mass at 5 o'clock. , f Rev. Father McMenamin was assistant ; priest; Rev. J. F. McDonough, deacon, ; ' . . and Rev. William Ryan sub-deacon; Rev. F. X. Henagan, master of cere- s , - monies. The sermon was preached by ; . Rev. Father McDonough. Professor Michel furnished the music, which was ' of an exceptionally high order. The : . senior branch of the Holy Name society , ' went to Holy Communion in a body at this mass. Low masses were read at -' : ' 6:lu, 7, 8, 9 and 10 o'clock, and high mass at 11 o'clock. The officers of this mass were Rev. P. A. Phillips, cele- t'.. brant; Rev. H. L. McDonough, assist- j ! ant priest; Rev. Father McDonough, J deacon; Rev. Father Ryan, sub-deacon; Rev. Father Ferrari and Rev. Father! s Belzer, deacons of honor. Right Rev. I ( Bishop Matz delivered a splendid ser- i ' mon on the gospel of the day. A picked choir, with orchestral accompaniment, furnished the music, which ranged sec- f ' :' I ond to none in the city. The personnel ' of the choir was as follows: Mrs. Emi- ' i lie Brandt Mrs. Alva J. Cook, Miss ' ; ' ; "Wanda Gottesleben, Miss Marie Tobin, j ! Miss Anna Burner, Miss Bessie Wil- ! , 'j I der and Miss Mabel Buechner, Messrs. : '1 William Sayer, J. A. Bottler, Kirk P. '!.?'( Metz, J. D. Rodgers. George Kerwiu. !t ! . ; ! , George Buchner and J.M. Woodward. ;i ' Professor Joseph A. Michel was organ- : 'I ; ist and director. Solemn benediction : : followed 11 o'clock mass, and the papal ' blessing was given at both 5 and 11 "i . o'clock masses. The number of com- ! ! ", ' municants for the day exceeded that of i " anv occasion in the history of the par- : :; : ' ish. Lohmann's orchestra assisted the reg-,' reg-,' , tilar choir of Sacred Heart church in ; . ' i the rendition of Gounod's "Messe Sole- , : , nelle," with the following soloists: Mrs. i : ; Fred P. Johnson, Miss Isabelle Mcln- J : ' tyre. Miss Hi-len Bautch, Mrs. II. P. . J Dickenson, Mrs. J. Benedict Foley, Mr. ' ' W. F. Foreman. Mr. Louis Reilly and " ; ! Mr. F. P. Johnson. A. L. Hank was !; I' organist, and Mrs. Fred P. Johnson ; i director. Solemn high mass was at 10:5. and was celebrated by Rev. Father Bruener, S. J., with Rev. Loe , Krcnz of Sacred Heart college deacon, and Rev. Father Peters sub-deacon. ; ' ; An eloquent sermon was preached by ; the pastor, Rev. Edward Barry, S. J. ! ' , At St. Dominic's church, on Grove and West Twenty-fourth avenues, high . ' mass was sung at 5 o'clock by the pas-' ; tor. Rev. J. P. Vallely. O. P.. with :"' Rev. J. B. Kircher, O. P.. assistant. Millard's mass in G was ably sung under un-der the direction of James P. Rowan, i t with Miss Helen Ferris at the organ. ' J The soloists were Miss Julia Allen,' : . Miss Elizabeth Allen. Miss Juanita ! ' Gonzales, Miss Frances Peavey, Mrs. ; . : J. L. Rausch, Merrs. W. E. Friend and 1 . i Roland H. Roll. " - . V ; I The music at St. Leo's was up to ; ' Professor Menzie's usual standard of .' ! , '. excellence, than which nothing more ! - need be said. Cavallo's orchestra as- : t ,' , si ited the regular choir, and a violin . solo by Signor Raphael Cavallo was a ' ., feature of the program. "The Babe of Bethlehem" was sung as an offertory " by Miss Bertie Berlin. Other soloists j were Miss Alice Chase, Miss Alice , : I Rundel, Mrs. H. S. Cooper, Messrs. j , James A. Grant, Llewelyn Jones, John , ' . ; P. Farrar, John Brown and Peter Men- ' ". ' .k zies. Organist, Miss Bessie McGovern. : f :. Director, Professor Peter Menzies. High . i mass was sung at 5 o'clock and again at ' , i r 10:30, with low masses at 6, 7, 8 and 9. I';;!': At the 9 o'clock mass music was fur- . .' ' ;. nished by the Children's choir, and '; ' Rev. Thomas H. Malone delivered the sermon. Father O'Ryan preached at 1 " 1 i iast mass. St. Joseph's choir,' under the direction j j : cf Miss Mary Sullivan, prepared two !..,,. entirely different programs for the high ; j I masses at 5 and 10:30 o'clock. Zin- f M garelli's Pontifical Mass was sung at ' I early mass, while Giorza's First Mass ;'.,- was the offering at 10:30 o'clack. The ; : I k', ., efficient choir was made up of the fol- f I ? ;. ' lowing: Miss May Creedon, Miss Ag- ' ; ' : iies Sullivan, Miss Frances Hamilton. ;,':: Mrs. W. F. Daly, Mrs. W. R. Leonard, j ; Miss Stella Creedon, Miss Emma Mes- 5 " kew and "Mrs. B. Howard, Messrs. Rob- '; crt McGovern, C. B. Heister, Leo Des- ; , jardins, Roy Heister and Edward Wol- tor. j ;' ' As usual, the program offered by St. 5 ' . Elizabeth's choir, attracted large con- j grcgations to the 5 and 10:30 o'clock masses at the West Denver church. '. s Haydn's Third Mass was sung by a ' ' chorus of twenty-five splendidly trained i ' voices, with the following soloists: Miss 1 J ; , ' Josephine Woeber, Miss Isabel Jacobs, ; : . Mrs. H. R. McGraw, Mrs. Howard 1 j Sleeper, Frank Farmer and Theodore .''.; Schcif. Miss Josephine Woeber was- : I '" , director and Miss Clara Woeber organ- ' . ' j Tlie congregation of St. James in 1 ! ' .' Montelair, worshipping for the first - ', Christmas in its pretty new church, sig-, sig-, i '.' 1 naiized the occasion with a well pre-1 pre-1 J .. jjared program. Rev. James Walsh, the ; pastor, preached at all the masses, and i . reminded the people to be properly grat- ! , ilied for having witnessed during the : ' ; . year just closing the fulfillment of their J i desires. i ' The Christmas collection at the cathe- j i dral came so near to reaching $2,500 that ' j ; the rector. Rev. H. L. McMenamin, is . . keeping the subscription list open untij Xew Year's, confident that some who ', f have not subscribed will feel encour- i , aged to do so. This sum is in excess ' of any previous collection in the history , i of the parish. I ' , . Church Notes. Rev. William Ryan, who had charge ;!' . tne church at Cripple Creek for the ' ' ' past few months, is now attached to "l ' ';' the cathedral. . i i All the parochial schools of the city f I ' ; ' i ' will resume classes on Monday. Jan- l )..;. uary 2. The Sacred Heart college will open for the winter term on Wednes- ; .'.' day, January 5. ' ' '; The Altar and Rosary society of the ',',".. , cathedral parish will receive Holy Com- j ; ' munion at 7 o'clock New Year's morn- ; ' ' ing, instead of on Sunday, the regular ill'1'- fcommunion day. - i : ; . Wedding Bells. j i ' ' Miss Laura Egan, daughter of Mr. I ' ; and Mrs. John C. Egan of the- cathedral 1 j ( . , parish, was united in marriage to j - ' i ! George Gray at Logan avenue chapel f ? - . Monday morning, December 27. Few ; f Father McDonough performed tbe cere? ' i i .; ; .. mony, which was Very quiet on account of the' ill health of the bride's mother. Miss Anna Politte of the cathedral parish and John Famihula of Loveland, Colo., were married at Logan avenue chapel on Tuesday, December 28, by Rev. H. L. McMenamia, who also read nuptial mass. The bride is a popular member of the Young Women's Sodality Sodal-ity of the cathedral parish. Social and Personal. Miss Stella Forham, who has been attending school in Indiana, is spending spend-ing the holidays at her Denver home, 858 Lincoln avenue. Mrs. Brown Ruffin Webb is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Monarch, 836 Grant avenue. Mrs. Webb was a bride of last Christmas, Christ-mas, and now resides in Kentucky. Miss Flore'nce Flynn, who has been teaching school at Perigo, Colo., is enjoying en-joying tlie Christmas vacation at her home in Denver. Miss Eva Sullivan is at home for the holidays from her school, St. Mary's academy, Leavenworth, Kan. Miss Marguerite McPhee, who attends at-tends the Sacred Heart convent, Man-hattanville, Man-hattanville, N. Y., is enjoying the Christmas vacation at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. McPhee, Mc-Phee, 1647 Clarkron street The spacious home of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Allen at 2923 West Eighteenth avenue will present a gay scene on Saturday Sat-urday afternoon, when Miss Gertrude Allen, assisted by a number of friends, will receive from 2 until 5 o'clock. The young women who will receive with Miss Allen are: Miss Philomene Girar-dot, Girar-dot, Miss Olive Baldwin, Miss Gail Hoskinson, Miss Minnie Orton, Miss Marie Hathaway, Miss Grace Clara, Miss Alice Clark, Miss Cecilia Morrison Morri-son and Miss May Morrison. Miss Mamie Hess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Hess, is spending the holidays at her Denver home. Miss Hess is a pupil at St. Mary's academy, South Bend, Ind. i Miss Agnes Holland and Miss Ruth Holland entertained about a dozen young girls at luncheon last week in a most charming manner. Mrs. Martin E. Rowley and children of Pueblo, Colo., spent Christmas in Denver with Mrs. Rowley's - mother, Mrs. J. E. O'Brien. Miss May Gillis is visiting in Fort Collins during the holidays. Mrs. W. H. Andrew left last week for Mexico, where her daughter,. Mrs. Willis Hulings, is reported quite ill. Mrs. Hulings was Miss Florence Andrew, An-drew, one of the most beautiful and attractive at-tractive sroung women in Denver society. socie-ty. Her marriage to Willis Hulings was one of the events of last summer. Leonard Dorse, a pupil of Immaculate Immacu-late Conception school, who has been ill for several weeks, is now considered out of danger. Miss Marie Mykens is spending the Christmas holidays at her home, 1620 Downing avenue ' The Knights of Columbus reserved a portion of the Tabor opera house Wednesday Wed-nesday evening. December 29, out of compliment to Edward J. Kelly of Lynn, Mass., who was received into the Denver council recently, and who is business manager of "The Virginian," which is running this week at the Tabor. Ta-bor. During his stay in Denver Mr. Kelly made many friends among the Knights and ably assisted in the degree work aew weeks ago. St. Joseph's Dramatic club gave a delightful de-lightful entertainment Tuesday evening, even-ing, December 2S, in St. Joseph's hall on West Sixth avenue and Galapago street. Three one-act playlets were presented, while singing and musical numbers helped fill the program. The sketches were put on under the direction direc-tion of Mr. Joseph Newman, and betrayed be-trayed talent and conscientious work on the part of the young inen and women wo-men of the club. Those appearing in the program were Miss Stella Howard, Miss Irene Howard, Miss Regina Burns, Miss Julia O'Connor, Miss Rose Donegan, Miss Stella Creedon, Miss Genevieve Gegg. Miss Arlie Doyle, Miss Marie Besant, Miss Lorette Broderick and Miss Margaret Desmond, Messrs. Joseph Newman, George Kerwin, Edward Ed-ward Wolter, C. B. Heester, Patrick Ryan. Joseph Murray, Harry Jones and Robert McGowan. More than fifty dollars was raised for the orphans of Regina Coeli Villa by Justice of the Peace Gavin a few nights before Christmas. Justice Gavin had been called upon to perform a marriage ceremony for a theatrical couple, and when handed ?15 as his fee promptly announced that he would give it to the Italian Sisters for their orphanage if the people present would help in so far as they were able. His generosity proved contagious and in -a short while more than fifty dollars was gathered together to-gether for the poor Sisters who seldom experience such kindness. The Sacred Heart Aid society will meet Thursday afternoon. January 6, with Mrs. Joseph A. Osner,357 Broadway. Broad-way. Mrs. John- J. Hagus. who was ill last week, is now able to " be about the house. Catholic Belief in the Bible. Before entering on the special topic of the third Advent talk, last Tuesday, December 14, at St. Peter's, Barclay street, on "The Church and the Bible," Bi-ble," Father John Corbett, S. J.. associate asso-ciate editor of The Messenger of the Sacred Heart, read two clippings from a last Sunday newspaper of New York City. These quotations from a former Protestant Episcopal rector and a Jewish Jew-ish rabbi served to show that outside of the Church people are fast losing their belief in the inspiration of Sacred Sa-cred Scripture. Father Corbett exhorted ex-horted any non-Catholics who might be present to hold fast to this doctrine, doc-trine, even though according to their principle of the Bible interpreted by private judgment as the rule of faith it might not be possible for them to prove the fact of inspiration. Whether Wheth-er non-Catholics can prove it or not, it is a part of the Catholic faith ana when people say that the belief in the Bible is dying out, they should remember re-member that there are in the world 250 millions of Catholics and every or. of them believe the Bible to be God's word: To show that the Church could not be the enemy of the Bible, Father Corbett Cor-bett appealed to her teaching on the character of the Bible and then to history, quoting chiefly from Protestant Protest-ant authorities. It is due to the Catholic Cath-olic Church that non-Catholics have any Bible at all. She collected the Sacred Books; and her sons to shed their blood rather than give up the Scriptures to be burnt. During ihe middle ages' her monks and nuns spent long days in copying the sacred writings, and it is due to their labors that we have a Bible today. to-day. It was the school book in all monasteries, the center of literature and the inspiration of art. Against the Reformers of the sixteenth century, cen-tury, the Church proclaimed anew her canon of Scripture. "It is false that Luther was the first to give the Bible tp the people. During Dur-ing the middle ages whoever could read- at all could read Latin, and the Scriptures was at his command. When |