Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-12-11
HOLY NAME SOCIETY
AT ST. PATRick's CHURCH
Membership Enrolled Close to 300
Address by Rev. Martin Heating OF
Waterbury.

Close to 500 men of ST. Patriclx's
parish were enrolled Sunday evening
at the formation Of a Holy Name So
cisty. taking the Holy Name pledge at
the solemn vespers held at the church
al 1880, after listening to an intensely
the purposes and aims of the society
by Rev. Martin Heating of Waterbury.
Srecfal seats on the center aisle were
reserved for the men who were to join
sight for the large congregation as
they rose to be counted in the ranks
of those whose avowed purpose it
should be to hold Gods name in high
est reverence They were given the
pledge by the rector. Rev. Hugh Trea-
nor. at whose instance the organiza-
ton OF the society has been taken up,
following a recent suggestion from
Right Rev. Bishop Milan of this do
cese- Later. the rector announced, the
further organization of the society will
be completed, and by January he ex-
poets to have Rev. c. H. McKenna. o.
D., of New York q noted worker in
this cause, here as a speaker.
The music for the solemn vespers
was rendered with beautiful effect,
both in the solo and chorus numbers.
by the church choir under direction of
Organist F. J.. Farrell. who repeated
for this service the music which was
used at the vespers at the time of the
recent conservation of the church.
For the sermon. Rev. Father Keating
took the text He that will confess me
before men, shall confess him before
my father which is in heaven and be-
fcre the angels of God. addressing him
self particularly to the men before
him, and declaring that they were as
semb1ed to make public proof of their
conservation to an ideal. the making
of His sacred name better loved by
men, the cultivation of q greater rev.
erence for il, and to make His holy
known
tice of it. To recent interrogation
as to what was the supreme need of
the church, the holy father had given
answer that it was not more churches,
more parochial schools or more inter-
est in missions. but more practical
Catholic laymen. and it was in part
u orking out of this need that was
shown when the first national con-
gress of the Holy Name society held
In Baltimore, sent back the pledge of
100000 American hearts consecrated to
greater reverence to the name of Jesus
Christ.
The Holy Name society has a wider
programme than a crusade against
profanity. It is the obligation OF every
man to mirror in his life the truth he
Processes, for every enc is a soldier in
the army either for or against Tim.
The day is past, the speaker said.
when any Catholic can be Indifferent
TO membership in the Holy Name So
ciety, and he emphasized the fact that
rortant to urge upon his first annivcr-
sary as the formation OF Holy Name
societies in the parishes. The success
of the Holy Name societies is of vital
importance era they can we'll prove
the bulwark against materialism and
socialism 1t is for the church to in
sist upon the passing nature Of the
material. but the eternal nature of
The spiritual, and II is time for us
to take alarm when the representa-
tive of American secular education
rises bef.,re the world with the as
surance that the religion of the future
in rot to be concerned so much with
the question of heaven and hell, but is
to be more concerned with the correc-
ton of evils
The preacher told the men that what
was required of them in membership
was simply the united effort by word
protest and example against the irrev-
erent use OF the name of the One who
gave His life for us. 1t is almost un-
beliex able that when this opportunity
IL offered we shall not enroll and take