Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1911 — St. Augustine’s Church Notes. [ARTICLE]

St. Augustine’s Church Notes.

Next Friday is the feast of the Immaculate .Conception, which is a day of obligation and must be observed the same as Sunday. In the council held in Baltimore in 1846, the assembled fathers. twenty-two bishops with their theologians, solemnly chose the Blessed Virgin Immaculate as Patronesses of the United States of America. They desired to add this crowning glory to all they haddone in her honor and wished to show their zeal for the interest of this country by placing the United States under Iter patronage. The Pope has dispensed the world from the law of abstinence on this Friday, hence-all may eat flesh meat, on this particular Friday. - she celebration of the Forty Hours will open with ten o’clock mass on Friday, Dec. 8, and will continue until Sunday evening.. Ihe services will be in charge of the Reverend Fathers of St. Joseph’s College. The order of services for Friday are as follows: School children’s communion mass at 8 o’clock; Exposition mass with sermon at 10 o’clock; 3 p. m., Euchristric Stations. At 7. :30 p. m., recitation of the Holy Rosary and. sermon, followed by Benediction with the Blessed Sacrament. Each evening during these three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, there will be an interesting sermon on some doctrine of the Catholic Faith. An invitation is extended to all to be present at the services.