Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-04-22
THE DEDICATION OF
ST. JOSEPH'S CHAPEL.
A NOTABLE EVENT in ARCADIA VALLEY.

iously begun and one which is so
deserving of success.
His Grace, the Archbishop, con-
firmed a class of So after the pom
tifcal High Mass. In his address
to the conirmandi and those pres
emit, he chose his text from the
Epistle of the Mass at the dedica-
ton of a church, comparing the
Catholic Church to the heavenly
Jerusalem. He said in part, sEa
Catholic Church is not a convent
ical, a Westinghouse where peo-
pie seemingly gather TO discuss
political questions of the day,
neither is the church a house for
gossip, but it is a house of prayer,
a temple of divine worship, a home
for Him, who gave to mankind a
Christianized civilization when He
died on Calvary's hight. The So
called dark ages saw the Begin
ming and the completion of those
magnificent temples which adorn
even our present day, the states of
Europe and are an indisputable
testimony to the steadfast faith of
our Christian forefathers, who
would take Gods own gifts to
man, the wood of the forest, the
mineral from the mine, and even
the fragrance from the flowers of
the field, and thus make a suitable
if not adequate return to the Gre
ator for His manifold blessings
to mankind. In every Catholic
Church man will find an altar,
and upon that altar a tabernacle,
and high above the tabernacle
the cross, the symbol of mans
redemption from sin and death.
The Catholic Church is a theater,
in which is enacted, day after day,
though in an unbloody manner,
that same great tragedy of CEN
turtles ago when one man, the
Christ, laid down His life for His
fellowmen, and by His death re-
esta blished Gods Kingdom on
earth and reopened the closed
portals of the heavenly Jerusalem.
Thus the church of Christ, the
Catholic Church, came down from
heaven to man and lifts him up
again to never-ending realms of
a 'blissful eternity"
Benediction of the Blessed Sa-
crament merked the close of the
eventful day, in the beautiful VAL
ley of Arcadia.
The following are the names OF
the priests that were present:
Most Rev. j. j. Glennon, D. D.,
Archbishop Of st. Louis, Right
Rev. J. j. Hennessey, DID,, Bishop
of Wichita, Kansas, Very Rev. o.
S. j. Hoog, v. G., Rev. j. j.
Tannrath, Master Of Ceremonies
Rev'ds M. S. Brennan and V,
Nugent, Deacons of Honor, Rev.
HI. D. Adrian, Deacon of the Mass,
Rev. Thomas Walsh, Sub Deacon,
Rev. Joseph Collins, Assistant
Master of Ceremonies, Rev. Thos.
Dalton, Thurifer, Rev'ds E. j,
Lemkes, HI. Hussmann, F. HI
Reker, j. M. Huber, E. Kern and
VIM. Huelsmann, Chanters. The
following were in the sanctuary
Rev'ds VIM. Noonan, Fl. Hucken-
stein, Francis Betels, Jno. Roth
ensteiner, Jno. Murphy, Iowa City
F. Herman, j. Haar, Jno. Long
Chas. Canning, A.. Meyers, j
English, Fl. hinges, P. Kurten-
bauch, Rev. j. Dietrich, G. s. s..
R. j. Zoeller, G. S. S.; r. P. Ber-
nard, 0. F. M; q. Brockmeyer, H
Muckermann, M. O'Flaherty, V
Stepka, G.. Flick, Jos. Preuss, E
Kern, E. Bolger, J.. Rapiess, G
Tintrup, L. G. Wernert, Pastor, J
Adrain, Assistant, and Brother
Anselm, O. F. M, the able ant
efficient architect, whose fame
reaches from the Mississippi tc
the "Golden Gate"