The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-12
y YEAR IN THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH,


CHURCH.
Sunday. October 80, was the first an.
niversary of the reception of the So
ciety of the Atonement at Graymoor
Garrison, n. Y, into the true fold
1t comprised whole communities OF
Anglican sisters and friars who with
their spiritual director. Father Minis
ter Paul, were received in body into
the Catholic church. The Lamp, which
| Is published by the community in
commenting on the occasion, says:
year has gone by since the re-
! ceptlon of the Society of the Atone
ment into the Catholic church on Oc-
tober 80. 1909. Seventeen were re-
/ celVed in a body on that day and
other members of the society in va
rlous places made their submission
subsequently. In all about twenty-five.
OF these two were friars of the first
congregation, five were sisters of the
second congregation and the rest were
tertlaries, some attached to the GRAY
moor community but the majority
llVlng IN the world. Certainly all told
tlny company. 1t is however note
worthy that only two members of the
society nave held back from entering
Peters fold and both of these are
likely to become Catholics in the near
future. Also in addition members of
the Rosary League of our Lady of the
Atonement, of the Anglo-Roman
union, Anglican clergy and religious.
more or less closely associated with
the society, have either already made
their submission or are preparing to
do SO in the near future.
Inc archenemy of souls has not
neen inactive and during the year has
directed more than one assault
against the GraymOOr foundation.
Notable among these attacks was the
effort to wrest from the society the
haIf acre of ground on which stands
the convent of st. Francis and the
mission church of St John Baptist
which we have been wont to call the
Graymoor Portiunoula, but the at
tempt seems to have failed and the
END of the year has been crowned bv
the dedication of St Johns church
after having been thoroughly reno
waited and repaired by his grace, the
Archbishop of New York and fur
n1shed with many beautiful gifts.
Room also has been provided for
the future growth of the second con-
gregation (the Sisters of the Atone
menD by their acquiring possession
OF nearly an acre of ground to the
south of their convent and two bene-
factors have purchased nine acres to
the north with the intention of hold
ing 1t for the sisters until thew are
able to purchase the same.
The prospects of the increase of the
Sisters of the Atonement is encour-
aging and before long an enlargement
CT their present rather cramped
quarters may be a necessity.
AS for the first congregation. no
growth could be expected until Friar
Paul, the father minister of the soci-
ETY., had received priests orders i'm
the Catholic church. This sublime Gift
was conferred by Archbishop Farley
in the seminary chapel of the archdi-
geese on June Is. 1t was not. how |
ever, until the middle of September
that st. Paufs friary was opened to /
re1glous aspirants. But the end of !
ne flrst year in the Catholic church |
-inds the little building nearly full |
which means if our aspirants perse
we're that ere long the first congre-
cation, as we'll as the second. will he
'equired to enlarge the place of
heir tent, lengthen their cords and
strengthen their stakes
1t is hardly worth while adding
hat the members of the society have
'nly feelings of profound gratitude
When they consider the step of year
Lgo. Eternity itself will not be too
ong in which to magnify God and
'raise Him for the benefits which
AVE come to us by virtue of our cit
zenship in the Catholic church. The
words of st. Paul to the Ephesians
AVE acquired new and personal
neaning for us. NOW, therefore. you
re no more strangers and foreigners;
tut you are fellow citizens with the
aints, and the domestics of God, built
pom the foundation of the apostles
nd prophets, Jesus Christ himself be-
lg the chief cornerstone"
AS for those we left behind in the
.nglican community our hearts de- s
ire is that they. too, may have the
lift of Peters faith and follow us into
he Catholic fellowship, which is
heirs quiet as much as ours. if they
i'll but free themselves from the in
ellectual and spiritual bondage !
herewith the Tudor Pharaoh bound r
ur forefathers and their posterity in c
lie House of Anglicanism {