The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-06-08


What is faircr, what is rarer. than
our Lady's May procession?
What is nearer to a fOret&stc OF Il
more than earthly bliss?
On, no pleasure, ad, no treasure of our
later life's possession
Can compare with all The sweetness
and the innocence of this"
The telling lines OF Denis A. Nc
! Carthy were assuredly echoed by all
who witnessed the procession and cor
onation Of Our Blessed Mother at st.
Joseph's church on the evening of
May 81. This little ceremony is one
which serves as an object lesson to ali
! This year. owing to the spiritual cf-
! fects of the late successful mission,
the coronation of Our Blessed Mother
was surrounded with greater solcmni-
ty and marked with greater outpour-
ings of devotion and spiritual love.
At 7:30 $50 white devotees marched
in double line from the Sacred Heart
academy to st. Joseph's church. Miss
Belle Spencer headed the procession
with the sodality baner. On reaching
the church Miss A. Cotton presented
the offerings made by the members of
the sodality. These heart offerings
were repeated by Misses Mae and Jen-
ME Tarter in solos that were heart
inspiring. Miss Belle Spencer placed
the crown on the Virgins head Dur
ing the coronation $50 voices entoned.
in joyful strains, hymns of praise and
love. The act OF conservation was
read by Miss Ella O'Neil This was
followed by Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament.
FIRST COMMUNION.
In Our Ladys month of beauty, in
orr I.adVfS month Of May
Somebody is coming somebody is
coming, somebody is coming" repeated
Father Rosswincl5le to the happy first
communicates who Thursday morn
ing, May 80 began the immediate prep
aration for the greatest of all great
days, and on Sunday. June ., 1907 the
real solemnity of the Feast of Corpus
Christi, the close of the great mission
at st. Joseph's, the God of heaven and
earth came for the first time into their
pure hearts.
AT $50 a M, before fiower-decked al
tars. in the presence of loving parents,
these privileged little ones filed into
their peWs while eXultant strains from
the choir told of the coming of Isreal's
King. How many eyes in that vast
ediice saw through sorrow mists of
tears. as they reviewed the blessed
morning when they, too, had first been
admitted to the banquet of love, How
many hearts beat once again with re-
newed fervor as they remembered the
instant when the God of heaven first
rested in their youthful hearts. How
many longforgotten promises were re-
newed. how many broken vows re-
plighted as the Swallowed vista of years
was frightened by the loving sunlight
of long past First Communion Day!
Immediately after the gospel the pro-
fession of faith was made in clear
distinct manner.
AS the happy moment drew nearer
Rev. Father Rosswinckle. S. j., who
had so untiringly, so earnestly been
preparing them for the great moment,
addressed them from heart overflow
ing with emotion. After expressing his
inability to find words on such an oc-
dasion. his thoughts naturally turned
to future years, the thorny paths, the
storm clouds nigh, and he voiced the
sentiments of older heads and time
saddened souls when he wished that he
might take their young hearts and pre-
serve them as pure as they were this
blessed morning. AS the longed-for
moment approached little Louise Muir
rby of Rock Springs read the acts be-
fore holy communion, and then. in
solemn procession, the happy little ones
ititu llilO Tie sanctuary anu pa lpOh u
the Bread of Life. Could mortal eyes
have lifted the wells of sense that OBJ
scured them, what hosts Of angels
would we have seen crowding the
church. what joy heaven knew at that
lnomenti
80, little souls! as pure and white
And crystalline as rays of light
Direct from heaven. their source divine;
Refracted through the mist of years,
How red my setting sun appears,
How lurid looks this soul of mine"
The grand close of the mission took
place Sunday night. June 2. An elo-
quent sermon by Father Donoher S. !
j., Benediction of the Blessed Sacra-
ment and the lPaDal Benediction |