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Show Catholic Elites FEAST OF SACRED HEART Friday is the feast of the Sacred Heart. Mass at St. Helen's church will be at 8:30 a.m. Confessions ( will be heard before mass. j Sunday mass in Roosevelt will be at 7:00. In Vernal at 9:0C a.m. j Confessions will be heard before Mass. Summer school ends Friday for Roosevelt youngsters. A picnic will be held on Saturday at the Uintah Canyon. All children are to be at the church at 10:00 a.m. Next week Father Pellegrino will be away for a week as he will be making' the Annual Retreat for the Clergy of the Diocese at St Mary of Wasatch, Salt Lake City, Utah. Fruitful Centenary Of The Feast Of The Sacred Heart On August 23, 1856, the Feast of the Sacred Heart was extended to the universal church by His Holiness Pope Pius IX. This year we celebrate the one-hundreth anniversary an-niversary of that event so mon-entous mon-entous in the history of the da-votion da-votion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The preparation for it had been a long one almost two hundred years. On December 27, the Feast of the Evangelist St. John, in the year 1673, St. Margaret Mary had recevied the first of the great apparitions. Almost one hundred years later, in 1765, at the request of many bishops and the royalty of Catholic nations, the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was granted for the first time to many dioceses by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites during the Pontificate of Pope Clement XIII. After another hundred years, in 1856, Pope Pius IX granted the Feast to the whole Church. May this centennial year result in an increase of devotion to the Sacred Heart. |