Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1913 — Saint Augustine’s Church Notes. [ARTICLE]

Saint Augustine’s Church Notes.

Friday is the feast pf the Assumption of the Bl sed Virgin Mary, a holy day of obligation. Catholics will observe this day as they would Sunday. There will be two masses, the first at seven, the second a highmass at nine o’clock. Friday being a holiday of obligation all faithful are, by a recent decree of Pope Pius X, dispensed from the law of abstinence, hence flesh meat may, be partaken by all Catholics on this particular day as well as on all future holy days of obligation coming on Fridays. Thursday is known as the vigil of the Assumption, and is therefore a day of fast and abstinence. Next Sunday the young men of the parish will receive communion in body. The banns of matrimony of Chas. Kelelr, of Hammond, and Olive Hoeferlin of this parish, will be ‘published for the first time Sunday, Aug. 17th. They will be married at nupthalmass Tuesday, Sept. 2nd. The ladies of the parish will serve a complete supper at the parochial school hall Friday afternoon, beginning at five o’clock They will also entertain at a social on the same evening on the church lawn, ice cream, cake and other refreshments. Music will be furnished by the Foresters’ Band. TJje excavation and the cement work * under the east half of the Parochial school have been completed. This was done in preparation of installing a heating plant which is hoped can be accomplished in the near future. Lavatories and sanitary drinking fonts will be installed and will be ready for use by the opening of the school.