Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-03
PLAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
FOR LUSDY'S CROSSING
Site For Edihce Been Donated
Initial Steps For Building
Being Taken
CHRISTMAS TREE SUNDAY

BY courtesy of the trustees, the
Catholic Sunday school of district No.
2. held its first Christmas entertain
ment in school house No. 3, near
Lusby's Crossing, Sunday, December
29th. at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
This Sunday school was inaugu-
rated about two months ago, and is
under the charge of Rev. Joseph
Baughman, C. S. r., one of the mis-
sionary priests stationed at St. Mary's,
this city. The school is the beginning
of a mission which has as its object,
the erection ia Catholic church in
the neighborhobd.
About thirty scholars. with their par
ents, were present. Rev. Father
Toohey, C. SIS. R., rector of st. Mary's
Annapolis, accompanied Father Baugh-
man as a visitor to the school. The
classroom was richly decorated with
Christmas green's and brightly coll
ored festoons. A pretty Christmas
tree, decorated with presents for each
child, stood in a corner beside table
laden with attractive boxes of bon
bons. In the center of the room there
was a large picture of The Nativity,
surrounded by a mass of greens. Only
short program was rendered, which
was follows:
Invocation by Rev. Father Toohey,
C. SIS. r., distribution of devotional
cards by Rev. Father Toohey, G. SIS.
r.; address by Miss Eva Dorsey Carr;
singing of "Adeste Fidelis," by the
school and audience; reading of an in
teresting letter to the children from
a convert schoolmate now in Arkan-
sas ;song, Dear Little Stranger" by
the S. S. girls; carol, "Hark! The
boys; closing speech by Master Mar
Herald Angels Sing!" by the S. s.
tin Fisher; address by Rev. Father
Toohey, C. IS. r., distribution of
presents and bonbons by Rev. Father
Toohey. C. S. S. r..
The district mission was largely the
subject of the addresses given. Miss
Carr said in part:
Small beginnings. make big end
ings. The water, gushing up from the
tiny spring. becomes a running stream
increasing in volume, it forms river,
then rushes on to make an ocean. At
present we are handful of Catholics
and we have only small Sunday
school but we have in this tiny spring
of Catholicity, an outpouring spirit
which is going to increase until 1t be-
comes an ocean of faith
Father Toohey assured the people
of the backing of his order. Referring
to the practicability of the project,
he said:
"It may be quite while before your
desire for a church can be realized,
but in the meantime | am going to
have the mass brought to you in your
homes. The most important thing is
not church building, but the services
held therein. You cannot build a
church yet, but you can have the Sac
rifice of the Mass; the mass is the
essential thing, the walls wherein it
is said do not count.
The Holy Sacrlflce mas Deen OHere0
in many strange places outside OF
church buildings, and with as great
faith. Before the first Christian
church edifice was built, the early
Christians offered the Holy Sacrifice in
their homes. During the terrible per-
secutions under the pagan Roman en-
pire, the Christians lived In the cat
acombs, and mass was said in the
ground under the city of Rome. In
years they became so numerous and
influential as to be able to build a
great cathedral over the ground where
they had hidden from their perse-
cutors, but 1t was the masses offered
in the catacombs that brought the
cathedral above; so it will be the
masses which am going to offer out
here for you in the New Year which
will bring you your church"
A tract of land near Lusby's Cross
ing has been donated by Mr.. Joseph
Fisher. as an appropriate site for the
erection of church and hall.