San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-13
CATHOLIC NEWS
THE WEEKS cAI.ENDAR.


Sunday-St. Lucy, virgin. martyr.
Monday-St. Nicasius, archbishop
and his companions, martyrs.
Tuesday-Octave of the feast of the
Immaculate Conception; st. Mesium.
Wednesday-St. Euselius, bishop;
Ember day.
Thursday-St. Olympias, widow.
Friday-St. Gatian, bishop; Ember
day.
Saturday-St. Nemescon, martyr;
Ember day.
st. Joseph's society will hold its
regular meeting at p. IN. today.
st. Vincent de Paurs society will re-
celve communion at st. Mary's church
this morning at 7:3O o'clock.
The Society of the Children of Mary
gained fifteen members at the meet
ing last Tuesday.
Last Tuesday evening the reception
of fifteen new members of the st. Jo-
seph's branch of the Socialists took
place, after which the new members
gave an entertainment to the clergy
and their fellow members at st. Jo-
seph's hall.
Miss Gertie Dwyer is on the pro-
gram of the coming library entertain
ment at Beethoven hall next Friday
night for selected defamation. A.
c. De Ham will also deliver a decla-
nation and Prof. J. =. McGinnis will
give an exhibition of sabre swinging.
Two one-act will also be given.
The Sodality of the Children of Ma
ry was organized by the young ladies
of st. Josephs parish last Tuesday af-
ternoon after vespers. There were
AS members enrolled
The annual election of officers ct st.
Mary's branch C. Il. of A., will be
held Dec. %
Pontifical high mass was celebrated
last Tuesday. The Feast of the I'M
maculate Conception, in San Fernan-
do cathedral, by Bishop Forest and
clergy assisting.
4 mission will begin in st. Mary's
church Jan. 10, lasting 10 days.
Rev. Father Sheehan, of Cuero, was
in the city last Thursday.
Rev. Father Brannan gave a mission
| in the chruch of Annunciatiou, Hous.
ton, last week.
A new branch of the Catholic
Knights of America has been organic.
ed in Castroville.
Rev. Father John Frische, brother
of Rev. Aug, Frische, of San Antonio,
died last Wednesday in New Orleans.
Today being the Sunday within the
| Octave of the Immaculate Conception
| the patronal feast Of st. Mary's
| church, Bishop Forest will celebrate
| solemn high mass at the church al
10 o'clock, the sermon being preached
| by Rev. Jos. Weckesser, of. st. Louis
| college.
Bishop Forest will remain in San
Antonio until after the holidays. His
| next trip out of the city will be taken
some time i'm January. He will cele.
brate midnight mass at San Fernando
cathedral on Christmas eve and will
| also officiate at high mass on Christ
mas morning.
Midnight mass on Christmas eve
will also be celebrated in st. Mary
and st. Joseph's church and also by
| Father Pefferkorn, at the chapel of
| the convent of Our Lady of the Lake.
| Early mass at the convent of the Ur,
| sulines will be celebrated Christmas
morning at 6 o'clock. At midnight
masses admission will be had by tick
cts, issued to few holders. After The
4 pew holders are admitted the general
public will be admitted until the
| churches are filled.
Rev. Father Parisot, of Beaumont
is in the city.
Father Week, of Victoria, was in the
city last Friday and returned home
yesterday.
Rev. Father Munoz, of San Fernan
4 do church, is i'll.
| Rev. Father Fuhrwerk, Of st. 10
seph's church, was called to Castro
vile on Friday, returning yesterday.
The chorus and solOists for the
Christmas orotorio of st. Joseph's
| chruch rehearsed last Friday.