Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1914 — St. Augustine’s Church. [ARTICLE]

St. Augustine’s Church.

Next Sunday is Quinquagesima Sunday, or the Sunday before the beginning of Lent. The s erviee will be as follows: Early mass at 8. The candidates of the Holy Name Society will receive ihojy communion at tJiis mass. Rosary, highmass and the reading of the Lenten Regulations at 10. At 2 o’clock;"! meeting of the Holy Name Society. All candidates should make an effort to be present at this meeting. The solemn reception of the candidates will take place at the church at 3 ofclock. Rev. Ignatius Rauh, C. P. P. S., will deliver the sermon. The services will be followed by a banquet prepared by the ladies of the parish at the parochial school hall. A formal program will be given in connection with the banquet. This banquet is not for the members of the society alone, but also for the members of the parish and their friends. Each moming during week days the holy sacrifice of the mass will be celebrated at 8 o’clock. Wednesday, March 25th, is Ash Wednesday. The day is called thus because on this day the Catholic church blesses ashes and puts them on the foreheads of the faithful, saying, “Remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust ehalt thou return,” (Gen. iii, 19. The ashes are blessed that all who receive them with a contrite heart may be preserved in soul and body, that God may give them contrition and pardon their sins and that He may grant them all they humbly ask for, particularly the grace to do pen nance, and the reward promised to the truly penitent. The sprinkling with ashes was always a sign public of pennance; as such, God enjoined it upon the Israelites. David sprinkled ashes on his bread. W T e should receive the blessed ashes according to the intention with which they are blessed and sprinkled upon the heads of the faithful. In humility, remembering ■and: confess! n g that we are dust and ashes and that for our sins we shall return to ashes again. To testify before God and man that we are not ashamed to follow Christ, doing penance publicly, and bearing the ashes on our foreheads. Each Wednesday and Friday evenings during Lent, Lenten services at 7:30.