The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-30
PRESIDENTS PRAYER. FOR PEACE READ IN
 CATHOLIC CHURCHES.
Next Sunday Is the Day Alp pointed As "Peace Sun day'' Special observ- ance Planned.

In all the Catholic churches in the city as well as throughout lthe state special prayers will be offered up daily during the whole month of October by the priests and people for a, speedy cessation of hostilities with the coun- tries involved in war. Right Rev. John J. Milan, bishop of Hartford, has sent a circular to all the pastors in the diocese asking them to pray for the special intentions of the people in the warning zones.
 The circular is as follows:
 "The month of October is observed prayer to the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary As our Lady of Victory she has been invoked by the Sovereign Pontiffs in the darkest hours through which the Church has passed. Her t1ntercession has not been sought in vain. The terrible events of the pres ent urge us to supplicate her with more than ordinary feryor. Our Holy Fath- CT, Benedict XIV, recently crowned Vicar of Christ, has made his first ap- peal to the Christian world for earnest prayero to obtain the blessings of peace. The President of the United States has called upon all the people of this fortunate country to unite in special prayers for peace on the first Sunday of October. Please read his announce the regulations concerning the month of the Holy Rosary. Ex- hort the faithful to approach the sac 1 raments during this season of prayer and thus make their petitions more ac- ceptable in the sight of God.
 The October devotions will be held daily in all the parish churches of the diocese from October drst to Nove1n- Der second. The Rosary the Litany of the Blessed Virgin and the Prayer to St. Joseph should be recited at Mass in the morning or during the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the evening.
 In our charity we should endeayor to obtain as many indlllgences as pos sible for the thousands of brave sol diers slain on the battle fields of Flu rope who have given their lives In obedience to the call of duty. Beg of lthe Almighty God of nations to grant 9 speedy cessation and hostilities and to support the widows and orphans in their dire distress.
 The proclamation issued by Presi-
 dent Woodrow Wilson asking that
 Sunday. October 4, be. observed as
 Peace Sunday was read at tha
 masses in all the churches last Sunday
 brethren to invoke the divine interces
 sion in behalf of peace. The procla-@ mation is as follows. ,.'By the President of the Uniteo l States of America
 .sA PROCLAMATION lsfWhereaS, Great nations Of the world I have taken up arms against one another and war now draws mil
 lions of men into battle whom the counsel Of statesmen has not been M able to save from the terrible sac
 riflce; and
 l whereas, Tn this as in all things. 1 it is our privilege and duty to seek 1 counsel and succor of Almighty l. God,humb1ing ourselves before Him, I confessing our weakness and our lack of any wisdom equal to these
 things; and,
 ssWhereas, It is the. especial wish and longing of the people of the United
 States, in prayer and counsel and
 all friendliness, to serve the cause of peace:
 NssTherefore. I woodrow wilson,
 President Of the United States of | AmericaS do designate Sunday the fourth day of October next. day of l prayer and supplication and do re- quest all God-fearing persons to re- I pair on that day to their places of
 worship, there to unite their petitions to Almighty God, that, overruling lthe counsel of men. setting straight 1 the things they cannot govern or all 1 ter, taking pity on the nations now l in the tfroes of conflict, in His mercy. and goodness showing 8 way where l men can see none, He vouchsafe His l children healing peace again, and re- l l men and nations without which there 1 can be neither happiness ndr true l lfriendship nor any wholesome fruit Of toll or thought in the world; pray 1 ing also to this end. that he forgive l us our sins, our ignorance of His Holy will, our wtlfu1ness and many ] errors, and lead us in the paths of 1 obedience to places of vision and to l thoughts and counseIs that purge and make wise
 sIn witness whereof have here l unto set my hand and caused the seal 1 of the United States to be affixed l Done at the City of Washington, l this eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine I hundred and fourteen, and of the i'm 1 dependence of the United States of I America, the one hundred and thirty
 ninth.
 1 WOODROW WILSON. l ssBy the President.
 ssWILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
 s'Secretary of State