The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-04
MEMS MISSION
IN DOMINICAN
CHURCH
St. AntOninus Crowded to
Hear Celebrated Pulpit
Orators.

Orange avenue and South Ninth street,
was occupied last night by men and
boys, 1t being the opening of a weeks
mission for them by the Rev. j. d.
s Wildenberg, o. p, and the Rev. J. M.
Stanton, o. p. monks of the Order of
st. Dominic, also called the Order of
Preachers. because its members nave
been celebrated as pulpit orators.
Very Rev. Francis A. Gaffney, who
was born in Newark and received his
primary education here, is rector of
st. Antoninus's Church and prior of the
Dominion Priory. He is happy be-
cause of the great success of the wom-
ems mission, which ended yesterday
afternoon. More than 1,400 women,
young and old, married and single,
went to confession and received COM
munion, beating former mission records
of the parish. The big crowd of men
In the church last night gave Father
Gaffney good reason for nope that the
men win do as well as the women,
perhaps excel them.
The mission program for this week
includes two masses each day. at 5
and 8 o'clock in the morning, and there
will be instruction given and a sermon
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mass. AT 7:30 o'clock each evening
there will be instruction and the rosary
of the Blessed Virgin, recitation of the
rosary, followed by a mission sermon,
and the service will close with bene-
diction of the Blessed Sacrament, a
priest of the parish officiating, a choir
of male voices singing the hymns.
Tuesday afternoon the hearing of con-
LESSONS will begin and thereafter con-
fession will be held daily before each
mass, in the afternoon and also at the
close of the evening services.
Father Stanton, a young mission
priest. opened the services last night
with instruction and the rosary. He
Their led In the saying of the rosary,
~The five Glorious Mysteries" the
first mystery being the "Resurrec-
ton; the second, 1.-THE Ascension" the
third, 1.-THE Descent of the Holy
Ghost;' the fourth. '"The Assumption"
and the fifth, 1.-THE Growing of the
Blessed Virgin After announcing
each mystery, Father Stanton repeated
the first half of the Lords Prayer, the
men answering with the second half,
beginning with give us this day." and
then said ten Hail Mary's, the men
reciting ten Holy Mary's aloud. This
was repeated until fifty Hail Mary's
and fifty Holy Mary's were said. 1t
was an impressive scene, all the men in
the church being on their knees and
repeating the rosary after the priest as
they had lone in Sunday School in
boyhood.
Father Stanton then said that
sweetest of all prayers, beginning with
Hail, Holy Queen. our life, our sweet
ness and our hope"
Father Wildenberg, who has been
years in the mission work, preached
the sermon, after urging the men to
attend one of the masses each day and
the evening services. He said 1t was
hard for a w-orkingman to arise from
; bed early in the morning, before sun
rise, to go to the 5 o'clock mass, but
every Catholic should make a sacrifice
for the salvation of his immortal soul.
Besides making the mission, he said
the men should use their influence with
careless Catholics to come to the mis-
sion. 1t might be a father, a husband,
a son, a brother, a relative, a neighbor,
a companion or a shopmate, who had
stayed away from mass and neglected
their religious duties.
"Ask your non-Catholic friends to
come 70 the InlSSlOu, Sdlu u dIueE
Wildenberg. Nothing will be said that
will offend them in any way. If they
come they will learn what a Catholic
mission Is. 1t may do them good. To-
morrow evening we will begin instruc-
ton for non-catholics who wish to
know Catholic doctrines and teaching
and practise"
Father Wildenberg then preached the
sermon. His subject was Immoral
ity.' He opened with a vivid word
picture of New York harbor and the
Statue of Liberty holding aloft in n
hand a torch, the beacon light of lib
erty, and with face towards the ocean,
eyes turned to heaven, the goddess
welcomed the people of other and at
the threshold of our shores to our
great country of freemen. And God,
the beacon of our lives, our souls, gave
man a free will, making him superior
to all animals, created him in His own
image, taught him how to rightly use
the divine gift of free will, and asked
only that man should love, honor and
obey Him on earth that he may enjoy
eternal freedom and happiness in
heaven.
But sin tempted men, and when they
were guilty of sins of impurity they
deSecrated their DOo1eSI WHICH were
temples of the Holy Ghost, the
preacher said, deiled their Creator,
who made all things. Father Widen
berg told in graphic n dramatic SEN
fences how the lives of innocent young
women were wrecked by sins Of i'm
purity committed by men, and how
their sins ruined the bodies. the health.
the minds of men, made them false to
Cod. their families, and a curse to So
ciety, and those who had a conscience
suffered terribly from remorse. which
was a punishment of God for the sins
of immortality.
Father Wildenberg said not only were
sins of impurity severely punished by
the laws of God, but the laws of ma
imposed severe punishment for the pro-
lection of home and society from the
evils of the vice of immortality. And
yet men let their animal passions con-
troll them. Fathers and mothers per-
mitted their boys and girls to go to
night picnics, to dance halls, to wine
rooms of saloons. where they mingled
with disreputable females and males,
with a result that many of these young
women who went from their ZONES
pure later walked the streets all hours
of the night Fathers and mothers,