The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-04-09
Diocese Of Denver
CITY OF DENVER.
Easter in the Churches.
lSpecial Corresnondencel

Easter In the Churches.
Especial Correspondence.
Easter has come and gone and never
in the history Of ecclesiastical Dem
Yer has the day been observed with
more solemnity than that which char
acterized the services of Sunday last
Tuesday was in itself an ideal one for
The Inauguration Of spring, and this
drew hundreds from their homes who
would not ordinarily attend religious
service. There was not a church in the
city that did not boast of some especial
exercises. and waving palms, mingled
with graceful Easter lilies, in decorat-
ing the main and side affairs The
decorations Of the various churches
were on an unusually elaborate scale.
The Altar societies. assisted by other
women of the parishes. expended their
best efforts in making the affairs beau
tiful for the Mass and their work was
not futile IN any case
st. Elizabeth's church possibly offer
ed the most impressive music, having
CHOIR Of forty voices, the largest ever
heard in any Catholic church jim Den
YER render Guonod's Mass of the
Sacred Heart for the first time in Den
Yer Lohmann's orchestra added to
he effect, and the sermon Of the day
r was delivered by Rev. Father Plus, the
l''As'ACAs- st Leu : CLUTCH tc4ilit Il Glt>G
second in the rank Of music and dec
orations. While the sermon was one of |
The finest I'M the city. The main altar |
was a solid bank of palms and Easter |
lilies. and the side affairs presented an /
artistic appearance in their color |
scheme Of white and green with palms
profusely used. The sermon at the |
High Mass was by the pastor. Rev.
William Organ. while at the children's
h. ~.
Logan Avenue chapel was the scene
Of a large gathering al all of the Easter
Masses but especially at the pontitical
High Mass, which was begun at 1890
O'Clock. AT this Mass the sermon was
by Right Rev. Bishop N c. MatZ, who
chose as his subject. Socialism,
topic which has been used extensively
I'm his discourseE of late. The choir I'M
der the direction of Professor joseph | {
A. Michel. put forth its best efforts,
and the music was much appreciated.
At St. Patrick's church Rev. Joseph p.
Carrigan preached to a large congrega- I
lion which taxed the capacity of the '
church. and at st. Josephs and the +
Church of the Sacred Heart there were c
equally large congregations. a
An impressive feature of the Easter I
services was the number Of commun
Ions distributed at the early Masses.
III every NIulCH lil the GU lllt liulllb-A ~
VI communicates was unprecedented, | 8
many awaiting themselves Of this op- le
oortunity to comply with their Easter W
Holy Week was observed in a solemn
manner, which made the Easter ser HI
ices seem the more deeply religious. ly
Among the singers Of the city who fC
anticipated in the Easter music and e
ielped TO make the days services the
rand success they We're, may be men
toned the following: st. Eliza eths- ST
Hiss Schlacks. Miss Isabel Jacobs, Miss pl
.nna Jacobs Miss Lakes. Misses Allen, pr
lss Kaufman. Miss Bradley, Miss so
Hickey. Miss Woeber. Mesdames Dos en-
H. Geese, Robbins Wulff. Miss Sulli Al
an. Miss Harding. Miss Langenickel. IN
Iessrs. Charles Mast, Sullivan, Len of
aris. Knopke. Cuthbertson, Speyer. ca
ellazzi. Schilling. Kratzer George dc
empton. DostaI Schimmelfeder, Mr.. pr
adden. Ault. Butcher Fairall Raven GU
II and Hickey. 10Y
Logan Avenue Chapel jthe pro-cathe- for
'aD-AIiss Wanda Gottesleben. Miss VI
ettia Kirkpatrick, Miss Bertha VIII
dams. Mrs. Frank S. Thayer, Mrs. are
seph A. Michel. Mrs. w. Granger, ant
RS. s. r. Crownover. William McPhee, to
illiam Sayer Albert Lesage, J. Alois
,ttler, Z. T.. McFadden. Albert Pope, y
F. Martin, c. d. Schimelfeder and drs
Granger. Is
st. Leos-Miss BERTHE Berlin. Miss VII
rite Becker Miss Alice Rumble. Mrs.
G. Eye, Professor Peter Menzies. Mr.. VIZ
bert HaVens Mr.. Francis Chapman
d Mr.. J. A. Grant. Signor Cavallo's l.
,hestra assisted and Professor Harry ma
oesan presided at the organ. the
It. Joseph s. tiss May Creedon. Miss tina
nifred Kempter. Miss Marie Feeney, and
SIS Agnes Sullivan, Miss Fannie Wof
milton, Nj Acres Coll Miss Jose not
inc Casey Miss Nary Kerns, Miss are
yme Leydst. Mrs. Leonard, Mr. as
nedict Fole. Nj. Irving Feeney, Mr.. pre-:
mes Pickett Nh Vincent Leahy, Mr.. any
ank Pickett Mr.. William Woeber
Mr.: James lson. Miss May Sui Ii
an, organist: Thomas Geoghehan, cat
actor. oetN
aver
fter the spring vacation. the chill VI :
n Of the Catholic schools of the city Paie
armed to their work on Tuesday, NJ a
h renewed energy and happy to set 49,.
down TO their school tasks once sc &c.
re. Already plans for the closing sL ~
rcises are being talked of. and there aroti
lain but a few weeks more before
end of the term.