The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-11
1000 AT ALTAR
IN
MISSION
St. AntOninus's Rector Is
Proud Of the Work
Accomplished.

weeks mission which closed last night
at st. Antoninus's Church, the Dominl-
can Church at South Orange avenue
n South Ninth street. The first
week of the mission was for women
only, and 1,400 of them went to the
altar rail. Last week was for men,
and more than 800 of them confessed
and received communion. Upwards OF
400 children made the mission last
week also. Their mission was for only
three days.
But the men and women a. to at
tend one mass every morning ana
each evening service in order TO make
the mission. And the mechanics and
other workingmen had to arise before
4 O'Clock each morning in order to be
at the 5 O'Clock mass, and working
women did the same during their mis-
sion. The Very Rev. Francis A. CAN
ney, o.. p. rector of the church and
prior of the Dominican Priory, has
good reason to be proud of the mis-
sion, for it was the most successful
n ever held in the parish. He is a
native of Newark, and he is a brother
of former Alderman John j. CARNEY,
the well-known experimenting cleo
trician of the United Electric Com
pany
The Rev. ]. d. Wildenberg, o. p,
and the Rev. J.. NJ. Stanton, Q. F., the
Dominican monks who gave the mis-
son, were much pleased with the re-
suits of their work in the parish. They
commended the members of the parish
in their at yesterday morn
ing's masses, when the men who made
confession Saturday afternoon and
night received communion, and they
urged the men and the ONE who
had made the mission to persevere in
the good work, to pray to God for
strength to continue in His grace, and
they said this could be done by pray
ing morning and evening and by going
to confession and communion once a
month, or at least once In three
months, and by never missing a Sun
day mass
Father Gaffney led in saying the
prayer of the rosary last night, when
the church was crowded from the altar
rail to the vestibule by men. Father
Wildenberg preached the last mission
His text was the injunction
of Christ to be faithful unto the end.
He said ne and his assistant and
Father Gaffney were gratified at the
enthusiasm of the men of the parish
during the mission, and he urged them
to continue in the state of grace they
were now in by never again commit
ting sins of drunkenness, impurity,
blasphemy and cursing, taking the
name of God in vain, or by staying
away from mass, when the body ana
blood of Jesus Christ was on the
altar and was received In the sacra-
ment of the eucharist by those who
were prepared for It by a good confess
sion and a resolve to live a purer lite.
rather Wildenberg counseled the
men to avoid all occasions OF sin. IL
they had been in the habit of going
to some saloon where they were
tempted to drink to excess or would
meet evil people, they should keep
away from that saloon. IL by meet
ing a certain person, or persons, they
were. tempted to commit sins of Inn
morality, they should avoid such per-
sons of either sex. Men had said their
appetites for liquor or habit of meeting
social friends, or their passions were
so strong at times that 1t was i'm
possible to resist temptation. But they
could rests. If they avoided the temp
tors and did not associate with them.
other men would say they were daily
at their e-mployments exposed to temp
tation. But If they prayed to God for
grace to resist when tempted they
could overcome temptations. Christ
had said that If we ask we shall re-
ceive. Therefore men should not make
Christ a liar by not asking through
prayer for grace and strength.
PRAYER is absolutely Indispensable
for men to keep them in a state OF
grace, at peace with God, and to gain
the blessing of His grace said Father
Wildenberg. IF o want employ
ment you have to ask for 1t, for the
employer will not beg you to go TO
work. If you want a public positioh
you must petition the men who have
the power of appointment, and also
get friends to intercede for you. Ana
so, If you want to get the grace OF Goa
in your hearts and souls you must
petition Him for 1t by prayer.
eff a man throws himself into a river
and is drowned he is to blame. IL a
friend throws a plank to a
man and he will not grasp the blank
he is to blame for the loss of his life.
So is the man to blame for the loss OF
his soul who deliberately goes into
places of temptation, or refuses the
grace of God extended to him through
prayer. Every Catholic should pray
Inorning and night, have the rosary
recited in his home each night, go to
confession and communion regularly,
and never miss the sacrifice of the
mass. Catholic men who will do this
will be able to overcome all tempta-
tions of the world, the flesh and the
devil. and they will be true Christian
husbands, model fathers, good neigh
bors and faithful citizens of the COM
munity of our beloved republic"
A fervent appeal was made by Father
Wildenberg to join the Holy Name
Society.
Father Wildenberg and Father stan
ton then went through the church and
collected money for a u TO educate
young men in colleges of the dominican
order to become mission priests of that
order. A Dominican monk is not al
lowed to have money for himself his
railroad fare is paid from place to
place when he is sent out on mission
work. Therefore the money collected
at the close of each mission is not Tor
them personally, but for the fund to
educate young priests to take their
place. Father Wildenberg said last
piohf that fba fnfeSiOn work is so Se-