Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-07-18
sunday Services,

Sunday the ceremonies or ingh pom
tifical mass with which the Columbian
Catholic summer school was formally
opened. Before 10 o'clock people be-
gan vending their way to ST. Patrick 5
and before the ceremonies began the
edifice was completely filled Inc
tardy ones had TO 20 away disap-
pointed. The aisles and other avail
able space were filled with chars
which were occupied almost as soon as
placed in position. Though ii was ex-
cessively warm in the church and the
serices were two hours in length the
audierce was most patient. The altar
was beautifully garnished with pink
ana white roses, nasturtiums, sweet
peas, ferns and palms. A myriad OF
lighted waxen candles lent an added
charm to the effect.
ri. Rev. s. g. MeSsmer OF Green
/ Bay, president oil the school, cele-
brated the mass Rev. +. J. Danehy,
! of st. Paul, was deacon and Rev.
Daniel Lynch, of Brainard, Mimi, was
subdeacol Rev. Father Koran, OF
Freeport, Ill. was assistant priest,
| l'he master of ceremonies was Rev. j.
NJ. Naughten, of Milwaukee, and his
assistant was Rev. j. A. Aahhl, OF
Notre Dame, Ind.
A pontifical mass is quite different
| from the mass sung by ordinary
priests. 1t differs not in substance
mass is the celebration OF the Lords
supper and for the most part is a
series of prayers-4but rather in the
manner Of it's celebration. The cele-
brant and attendants moved from the
left vestry room at 1870. After a
prayer at the center of the altar they
stepped to the right side OF 1t, where
the bishop donned his vestments, hay
| ing worn his customary purple gown
on entering. The assistants and altar
boys had put on their vestments inAhe
vestry room. A pontifical mass is a
beautiful and impressive ceremony and
must be seen to be appreciated. There
will be another next Sunday and Il
third on the following Sunday. a
pretty effect was secured when at the
end of the ordinary and at the begin
ming of the canon of the mass numer-
Gus electric lights half hidden behind
i the affairs flowers and ferns We're
turned on.
Rt. Rev. Chatard, of Nincennes, Ind,
preached the sermon. lit was mas
terly dissertation upon education and
morals and the relation the Roman
Catholic church sustalnS % them.
/ lie thanked the citizens of Madison for
their welC ONE and their interest in the
school. He said that the church had
always stood for education and fears
nothing more than it does Ignorance.
The speaker said that the church had
not received fair and Just treatment
at the hands of historians. The pub
lie schools were founded by priests
decades before the present public
school system came into existence.
Even now, he said, one may find a
school in the shadow of large major
ity Of the Roman Catholic churches.
1 He think, the Columbian Catholic
summer school is going to prove Il
success.
In the evening pontifical yespers
were sung by Bishop Chatard at st,
patrlck's and by Bishop STANLEY, Of
/ Fargo, n. D., at st. Raphael's. In the
morning Rev. Father Dempsey, of De-
troit, sung the mass at st. Raphael's
and Bishop Stanley preached the scr
mon.
The Pope's Blessing:
If numbers are any indication the
Columbian Catholic summer school is
going to be three times the success
that the Plattsburg school is. When
| the latter school moved from New
/ London, Conn, and opened at Platts-
burg 1t had an attendance of 125
Monday morning 400 persons heard
the first lecture Of the Columbian
/ Catholic school The officers and friends
of the school are highly cated at its
! prospects. The present indications
certainly point to big success in
every particular.
Bishop Messmer presided. A letter
bons, approving and blessing the
school, was read a translation from
the Latin original follows:
1.-The holy father, already Informed
of the good done in past years through
religious conferences held in the sum
mer schools, has heard with much sat
isfaction that such summer school
is to be held this year in the city Of
Madison, Wisconsin, from the 14th Of
July to the 4th of August. His holi
ness does not entertain doubt but the
same interest will be shown in these
lectures at Madison that has been ac
corded such convocatlons in The past
the importance Of the matters to bt
treated and the ability Of the lecturers
to whom the subjects are entrusted be
ing a guarantee of this. Desiring
however, to make known the lnteres
which he also takes in the summer
school Of Madison, and the hope BIZ
eherishes to see it bear good fruit III
spreading religious truth, the angus
pontiff wishes that your eminence ex
press 10 the Rt. Rev. Bishop Of Green