Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-03-26
MISSION OPENS
AUSPIC|0uSLY
INITIAL SERVICES FOR WEEK
SUNDAY ATTENDED BY GREAT
CROWDS AT ST, MARY'S.
"MORTAL SIN" TONIGHT
Missionary Will Tell Faithful OF o.
lenses Against God In Evening
sermon-ExpIains Objects
Of Services.
PROGRAM Of Services.

Program Of Services.
$3.50 a. m.-Mass and sermon lot
working men and women.
8. m.-Mass and instruction.
| IL q. m.-Little mission for children
under 16 years.
3 p. m-Instruction to children I'M
der 16 years.
1880 p. m.-Rosary, sermon ana
benediction.
Subject Of sermon tonight-"Mortal
Sim"
st. Mary's Catholic church, in which
mission will be held all this week,
was crowded to the doors at the two
morning and one evening services
Sunday. TO the delight OF the rector,
Very Rev. F. w. Hoppmann and the
missionary priest, Rev. Father John }.
Matthew, the mission opened most
auspiciously, and all indications point
to the week of special devotion being
productive of much good to the church
and the faith.
The mission opened at the ten
O'Clock service, at which Father Mat
thew explained the. object of the week
of devotion. At 3 o'clock, 260 children
were present and recited the rosary
and listentd to the instructions OF the
missionary. There were insuthc'
cient accommodations in ST. Marys
last night for the congregation. The
services consisted of the rosary, reclt-
ed by Rev. Father Bulger,' and bene-
Ciiction, with Rev! Father James Foley
as celebrant, and a sermon by Rev.
Father Matthew. Rev. Father William
Devine, co-worker of Father Matthew.
arrived today to assist in. conducting
the mission the balance Of the week.
The sermon at the $50 mass this
morning given by Father Matthew, was
on Confession" The speaker gave
an excellent explanation of the con-
fession and it's Offices.
The Object of the Mission.
Grace and peace to you from Gcd,"
a quotation from the second eplstle
St Paul to the Corinthians, was de-
clared by Father Matthew to be the
real mission of the two priests to this
city In explaining the object of the
Father Matthew said:
1T is message, from the Almighty
God, to console the good, the friends OF
God, and to open the eyes of those who
are serving God only with half heart
and thus save them from falling into
mortal sin and losing their immortal
souls. To those who have become in
different, the mission offers an oppor-
tunity of coming back to that state OF
goodness to which the belong. IN
localities there are found some
who are stepped in sin and 1t takes
some unusually strong acts OF Gods
love to win back those souls. Ihls
is what the mission Is for. We have
come here, in imitation of the divine |
Savior to preach to you of the truths
of God and Jesus Christ crucified and |
to administer the sacrament Of pen
ance and holy communion. The sue
cess Of the mission depends upon you
people, The missionary is like doc
tor. If you have diseased part, the
surgeon operates to rid you OF that
The missionaries use the ,
knife OF truth to get at your bad parts,
and it may hurt, but it will end all
right. We attack sin, not the sinner
Explains the Rosary. 4
In the evening service last night.
Father Matthew took occasion to ex- ;
plain the rosary previous to the recital
Of that prayer. To the efficacy of this
prayer, the missionary said he owned
much. 1T is greater miracle to turn |
away a man from his evil life than
to raise the dead said the mission !
airy. "A man stepped in sin will argue
with you and turn the grace Of God
aside. In dead man there Is no re-
sistence What is more beautiful than
the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the
Greed, which is an epitome of our holy
religion? Prayer will do much to turn
the wicked from their faults
The speaker expressed his gratitude
to the parents for the showing in num-
bers made by the children at the at
ternoon service. The little mission in
the afternoons is for children espec-
tally, and he urged the parents to see
that their little ones were present.
What would it profit man to gain
the whole world and suffer the loss OF
his soul?" asked Father Matthew at
the outset of his evening sermon. The
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