Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1916 — St. Augustine’s Church Notes. [ARTICLE]

St. Augustine’s Church Notes.

Next Friday, Dec. Bth, the church celebrates with special solemnity the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a day of obligation. The services will be as follows: First mass at 7:30. Rosary, highmass and sermon at 10. On this day Catholics are permitted to partake of flesh meat, owing to a papal edict which exempts from meat abstinence all feast days or holidays of obligation which happen on a Friday. Next Sunday, the second Sunday of Advent, the following will be the order of services: Early mass at 7:30; the young ladies sodality will receive holy communion at this mass. Rosary, highmass and sermon at 10. After late services instructions for children that do not attend the parochial school. Christian doctrine, devotional exercises and benediction at 2:30. The Holy Name Society will meet at their hall at 7:30. This will be &n open meeting. , The congregation and their friends are invited to attend same. An interesting program has been prepared. Alonzo Healy, William Worden and Louis Moosemiller will read papers on early Catholic history of this country. Another feature of the evening will be questions and answers pertaining to Catholic reilgion’s practice. Divine services each morning during week at 8 except on Saturday, when the holy sacrifice of the mass will be offered at 7. Every morning communion services at 6:30. The ladies of the parish will hold their annual fall festival on the following three days: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, J)ec. 12, 13 and 14. A cafeteria dinwgf will be served each evening- beginning at 5 o'clock and will continue until all are served. They will also have many artistic as well as useful articles for sale. The proceeds of this bazaar will go toward the new church fund. »-vs