The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-01-17
THE DEDICATION
OF ST. J0SEPH'S
AN ENORMOUS CROWD WITNESSES
Bishop O'Dca Delivers Mastery
Addrcss-Ccrcmonie We're I'M
prcssivc Throughout.

Sunday the new Catholic church
was dedicated to st. Joseph by the
Ri. Rev. Z. j. O'Dea, Bishop OF
Nesqually, according to the simple
but impressive ceremonies of the
Catholic church on all such oc-
casions. The ceremonies of the
dedication were commenced prompt
" at 10 o'clock. when the bishop
accompanied by long procession OF
servers, the visiting priests from
Spokane and Seattle, the pastor of
the church and his assistants, SOL
EMMY and slowly proceeded down
the center of the church to the en-
trance, where, after a short invoca-
ton and prayer, the blessing Of the
outer walls was commenced. The
services were beautiful and had
aroused so much interest among the
congregation that the crowd in at
tendance was enormous and the pro-
cession that followed the bishop and
his attendants while he passed slow
ly around the edifice, sprinkling the
walls with the holy water, could not
but recall the dedication of the mag
nifcent temple built and sanctified
by Solomon thousands of years ago,
when the multitudes of Israel fol-
lowed him as he passed into the
temple leading that long line of
princes and high priests and the peo-
pie from the remotest parts of
Israel, bearing the Ark of the Gov
enant, and the precious mama with
which He had fed the Israelites in
the wilderness. The throng in at
tendance was the supremest mani
festation of the faith and zeal for
the work of God that is burning in
the hearts of members of the con-
gregation. The blessing of the out
err walls completed. the cavalcade
passed into the church, and after
another short invocation. the bishop
proceeded to the sanctification of the
inner walls. The blessing of the
church accomplished, solemn high
mass was commenced, with Father
Dillon, S. j., rector, Of Seattle Col
lege, as the celebrant. Father
Father Chionale, S. j., of Spokane, as
deacon; and Father Couffrant, the
assistant of the parish in Yakima as
sub-deacon. The mass sung was
farmers Mass" and during the
mass the ''veni Creator" and that
masterpiece of F. X. Wits "Ecce
sacerdos Magnus," were rendered
most credtably After the gospel
Bishop o'Dea delivered a mastery
dedicatory sermon He said in
part.
Sc you see, my brethren, away
back in the very dawn of creation
God selected certain places in which
ne wished particularly 10 tell and
communicate his love and his power
10 mis- creatures. And so it has
been, my brethren, We might say,
down the ages. and have we not rea-
son to believe that the Jewish peo-
pie loved their temple and their
tabernacle? Had they not every rea-
son to love that place which
was, We might say, the house Of
the God Of their forefathers? Had
they not reason 10 love that place
where God promised TO hear their
prayers and their supplications and
70 grant their requests? But say,
M brethren, that if the Jewish peo-
pie had resolved to love taeir tenn
A'e We .oday have better reason for
loving our church, becau3n in the
Present age there is as murh differ
ence between our services end theirs
as there Is between sunlight and
darkness. There is as much differ
enee between their sacrifice and ours
a5 between the living, breathing re-
ality and the shadowy type. Yes,
ny brethren, bu. in this tempe OF
Goa today there is a greater sac
rice in the present church to the
King Of Glory himself; God Al
mighty, the grea, Jehovah, is as far
superior to the sacrifice Of old. as
the blood Of Jesus Christ is superior
10 the blood of oxen and goats. Yes
my brethren, If they had a right
70 love their church. we have TO-DAY
infinitely more reason for asking you
to love this church because it is a
church that was born under MANY
sacrifices, and It is in proportion tc
the sacrifices it cost you the deareI
70 your hearts. It is a church. nv
brethren, Of which you may vel
feel proud. and although I admire
ms beauty and fits general appear.
ance, admire more than all else
this congregation and the interest,"