Show I I St St. Marys Mary's Church Notes C Comments On Sunday August 23 23 an Increased i congregation w was s present In St St. Marys Mary's i Numbers umbers at both masses mosses were ere well up I Including passing tourists and campers from Cloud Rim some fifteen of or them J Francis OHara O'Hara and Bennie Dennie Dir Dir- cumshaw kindly conducted the automobiles automobiles automobiles automo automo- I biles of ot transportation In the early morning bringing the girls to 8 o'clock I mass Next Sunday will be the last of or the Scouting season on the heights so 80 a a. volunteer or two will be sufficient for Sunday August 30 our gratitUde gratitude gratl- gratl tude is due to those who helped our Scouts to church The gospel of last Sunday dealt with the cure of or the lepers by our Divine Lord Ten were made clean yet only one a a. Samaritan returned return return- ed to thank our savior for his return return-I great kindness While gratitude Is la the t to be extolled In the sermon of the day I thoughts arise on this tropical disease of or leprosy so prevalent In areas oreas of West Africa Having been a n missionary In i Africa for years I have been familiar fam with the awful ravages of leprosy of or the virulent type In Nigeria there were Isolated camps burled buried In the forest away from towns and villages to o these I refuges people afflicted with the ailment aliment were brought from their original hom homes In many of or these settlements there were from four hundred to o a thousand Inhabitants ln- ln In-I In II habitants in adobe houses built by by themselves with aid from the Catholic I Missions Each leper station had Its own I I church where mass was celebrated cerebrated dally dailY and the sacraments administered to I 1 U m. m including matrimony the children chil- chil I dren were born in many cases free of or leprosy at least externally If the then I mothers were advanced cases and soto so likeable to contaminate their offspring the babies were suckled and nursed by other mothers living outside the leper villages From time to time folks had spent ten Un or twenty years In isolation to emerge again minus fingers and toe but with a clean bill bUl of health give by local authorities In our Lords Lord's time Um 1 l In Palestine same was Issued by the temple priests In Jerusalem Leprosy then may be of or various types but the themore themore themore more virulent leaves the body a complete complete complete com com- wreck bringing death as a consummation consummation consummation con con- summation devoutly to o be wished Attending Attending Attending At At- tending the victims of leprosy as we saw it It in the tropics was by no means a pleasant task The stench of or rotting I human flesh is second to none of or all alii j possible malodorous smells but it was wal all ali forgotten In the spiritual joy b of bt bringing our Lord in the holy viaticum to a dying victim with missing features In the face tace the breathe repelling and yet happiness divine expressed by a poor soul to breaking point by this th hideous disease In fact one corpse did diet break in two as the good Nuns lowered it Into the grave by night Yet of all alt the missionary work in West Africa such I attendance by priests and sisters wa waI coveted as the most honorable activity this labor of at love among the outcasts of the of-the the African tribes Today medicine Is I Interested In salvaging these human wre wrecks wreaks ks and reports are most hopeful that the ravages of leprosy may yet be averted If not eliminated People hear of the work done by Father Peter years ago on the Molokai Islands among lepers and It was glorious he himself died of leprosy Robert Louis Stevenson visited Molokai and sung the praises of this saintly missionary but what of the same loving labors of many African apostles over a longer period with no such great writers as R R. L. L Stevenson to sound their story around the world Unseen unknown and untold this mighty magnificent achievement of or the cross on which Christ too died an outcast has been carried on by devoted disciples of or our Lord the Lord the Catholic priests and sisters slaters on the flung far-flung mission fields of or West Africa I Father John Haas was a classmate of mine who worked on the Gold Cold Coast for tor many years his delight was to be doing some relief work among his lepers bringing blankets food and aid to them he finally contracted leprosy itself and was brought to a in Southern France from Africa some years ago He Ue was then already badly disfigured A monsignor pellet founder of many mission mission mission mis mis- sion houses on the west African Coast once had a dying leper put In his own bed he himself slept on the floor a little was was left by the bed to tobe tobe tobe be wrung by the sick man In his needs For lor days and nights the monsignor knew no rest until death claimed the leper for its own Such sacrifice is la the seed Of many graces and worthy Christians I It has been suggested to o have the I mission for St. St Marys Mary's parish from the eleventh to the eighteenth of October next provided these dates do not run counter to o deer hunting season It Is to tobe tobe tobe be given by a a. Father from Citrus Grove in California The said order is famed tamed for Its great mission preachers We hope to o Interest all our parishioners of Park City in the need I for making this mission Us its spiritual reward re reward re- re ward will wUl be immense immense- for their families re-I re and themselves No doubt the outer districts of Coalville Echo Emery I Kamas Heber Midway and Charleston I I will make heroic attempts to be present in church for tor as much as possible of the mission exercises It will w be a tonic to many souls to spend some time with God Cod since the lest test of the year is given over over overto to work household cares carea and amusements amusement of one sort or another Word has haa just been re received from the of Our Lad Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters Salt Lake City that I catechism classes for children will comI com corn I mence again on Saturday September 12 In school hall han and anti church At this early date It Is to o be hoped that all our parents and guardians guardian will w see tee to o it It as as a duty of the Fourth Commandment that children of age will be sent cent to these Instructions Instruction each Saturday at 10 O am Children on their part are bound to obey the behest of learning the rudiments rudl rudi ments mente of religion Nothing U V loved unless un un- un- un I less it Ws its known W well and d wisely I A custom In the Catholic Church that thatis is ii well wen observed In other countries is la isi laI i the called so-called churching of ot mothers of new born babies In order to express her gratitude to Cod for tor bringing her safely through the trials trial of ot childbirth and to beg lBs Uta blessings upon her ber and her ber child a mother goes ioe voluntarily to the church for this fun beautiful blessing It I has been a practice since very early Christian times Although churching parallels Our Ladys Lady's voluntary submission submission sion after the birth of Christ to o the Hebrew rite of or purification there Is In Inthe inthe 1 the mind of the church no taInt whatsoever whatsoever whatsoever what what- attached to o child-bearing child nor Isa Is Isa a a. mother In any way cut off ort from the church until after atter this ceremony has haa hasTeen Teen Veen een performed The name churching arises from the precept that this blessing blessing blessing bless bless- ing may be conferred only In a place where mass Is said A mother may ask for it even If her child was still born provided only that the child was born In lawful wedlock After the mother with holy water and reciting Psalm 23 The earth is le the Lords Lord's and the fullness thereof the world and all that dwell therein the priest recites other ritual prayers Invoking Gods God's grace on mother and child terminating with the blessings of the Holy Ho Hol Trinity Mothers of babes are kindly Invited to ask for these rites on their first Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day to mass after the birth of the child or on any week-day week as it may be convenIent convenient con con- for themselves I Mention has already been made inThe In InThe The Record of or that great writer Oursler who died In 1952 1052 Two of his I books The Greatest Story Ever Told jand j I I and The Greatest Book Ever Written I both retelling the Old and New Testament Testament Testament Testa Testa- I 1 ment of the Bible were best sellers familiar to millions of readers Even a j I i I local Interest has been set going In In these works which encourage the reading readIng read- read Ing of the Bible Itself which Is th the I ideal It is interesting to record that I 1 Fulton Futon was born of old Maryland protestant protestant protestant pro- pro stock at the age of ten was baptized in the baptist Church and in 1 his early teens professed himself an agnostic By 1935 he ho had read and re- re on practically every religions viewpoint ever presented to man In IncludIng Including including In- In books on the Esoteric Religions of Asia The one thing he still hadn t brought himself to o do was to o get Bet to o the i heart of the one religion Christ instituted ed the ed-the the hurdle every convert knows It begins with an uneasiness of or mind salad that goes something like this If H there Is a aGod aGod I God and He had a son and Jes Jesus s was that son sun what exactly did Jesus Institute in institute institute in- in It was then that Oursler de decIded decided decided de- de to go to the very places where the theman theman theman man of had spent his earthly lire Hie where he had fasted in the desert where he had preached and healed where at the end he had died Fulton i Oursler still an avowed skeptic set forth forthwith forthwith with his family for the Holy Land It is isto isto isto to be recalled that his exploits in the literary world had been spectacular in turn he lie had been editor of the magazine Liberty editor ln of Metropolitan and a senior editor with the Readers Reader's Digest DIgest about about as enviable a position as any allY editor can hope to get The result of his visit to Palestine was that Oursler felt compelled to to do a book that would present the story of ot Christ in a a way everyone would appreciate appreciate appreciate and understand In his mind was born The Greatest Story Ever Eyer Told It meant two more years e rs of exhaustive reading and research into Biblical books and documents documents documents-an an exercise almost guaranteed to force a man to acknowledge acknowledge ledge ledga the reality of Christ and his claims A priest of Fordham University gave Oursler Instructions In the Catholic Catholic Cath Cath- olic faith and when he was baptised so soI I was his family After his conversion to toI Catholicism he found lound the peace his soul I always craved his work more or less Indicates that He Lie next gave us The Greatest Book Ever Written a rich harvest barvest of labor for the Lord An enquiry class for adults wishing I i I to know more about our religion will be j I opened in St St. Marys Mary's early next month with an Introductory lesson on the Bible Dible as source of revelation of divine i truths to o man plus tradition a second spring of hope to o Christiana Christians arising from oral teaching of Christ and his apostles only written down In later laUr ages As testified by St St. Paul Therefore brethren stand fast tast and hold the traditions traditions traditions which you have learned whether by word or by our epistle 2 Thess mess 1114 This advance notice may catch the eyes of ot our parishioners interested In Biblical study and in a more moro thorough thorough thorough thor thor- ough grounding 01 ci what Catholicism stands for It has something substantial to otter but many are content with only a shallow knowledge of or the truths of this one and only true church instituted instituted not by any man but by our Divine Lord himself himself fulfilling the prophecy prophecy prophecy pro pro- of ot old God Cod Himself will come and save sate you Is Ia Pupils of the high school will w also have a a. class clasa on each Tuesday evening e following Devotions Devotion In church beginning begin ning on September 8 In the hall Religious ous oua training Is la by far the most important Import Import- ant part in the education of ot our youth a fact that needs to be stressed at all times time In early pre days daya universities themselves were run by religious orders ordera the very gowns of graduation are remnants in a way of the tho cassocks still worn In the church ser vices vice To the church in to Europe was their due as aa the Catholicism of those thole days daYI catered for the of or its Us youth in every stage of life lit a a. fact tact so 10 otten often blighted out of history by I hostile propaganda Religious teaching had a a. foremost place In every school college colleg and academic halt hall of learning I With the secularization of ot post poet reforms Uon tion times time came oame the Indifference to religion for tor which In our days daya we are till still paying a heavy eavy price as aa God Cod has I Continued on Page Two I I St. St Marys Mary's Church I Notes Comment Comments I Continued from Page One been effaced from tram His Ills rightful place In called so-called education of ot modern times II I Visitors to the rectory over the weekend weekend weekend week- week end Included Mr and Mrs Dan R R. R Me- Me Mei I i Leod of Sacramento Mrs McLeod was wall formerly Catherine McNeil born In Park City where her father was once an I engineer In tn Silver King mine She was much Interested in her old home still standing In 10 Empire Canyon Also visiting visiting visit visit- ing us was Father McNamara of Ogden City temporarily stationed here last May and ever since an ardent fan of ot the beauty of or Park City Accompanying him were Mr and Mrs Lee Simone and I family from Ogden Sunday sixth September will wUl see aee the rally of ot now living in the San Mateo San Francisco and Oakland areas They meet together in the park in San Mateo where Mr and Mrs Kopp make l welcome the many exiles of ot our city Its It's good when the brethren meet to together together to- to gether to exchange memories of their J I alma mater We on our part regret that I Ino no silver sliver lining brightens the dark cloud f over our city hence our tale of ot as we 11 were a year ago must go on record The mine owners dont don't seem anxious for production at present prices of ot lead II II and zinc No desire Is evinced of ot re renewed renewed renewed re- re activity Prognostications of at fu future future fU- fU ture prosperity wear pretty thin Sweet ril words do not butter bread Unless our k mines reopen Its It's much ado about nothing noth noth- log ing chasing rainbows brings no crocks crock II II I of ot gold l |