Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1915 — St. Augustine's Church Notes. [ARTICLE]

St. Augustine's Church Notes.

Today, Dec. 8, is the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is not oniy a holy day of obligation throughout the universal church, but is also the patronal feast of the United States. Services at the Catholic church here will be as follows: First mass at 8 o’clock. The Young Ladies’ Sodality will receive holy communion at this mass. Rosary, high hiass and sermon at 10 o’clock. At 2:30 devotional exercises, solemn reception of candidates into the sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and benediction of Blessed Sacrament. Next Thursday morning requiem high mass will be chanted in memory Of Lucy Ilealy. This mass is the sodalities mass and every member is urged to be present and to receive holy communion in memory of their departed member and friend. The ladies of the parish will have their final meeting Thursday after noon at the home of Mrs. Matthew \Uorden. At this meeting all arrangements will be completed for their bazaar, which takes place on Dec. 14, 15_ and 16. The bazaar will be held at the parochial school hall. In order to gain additional room spare desks will be removed from one of the school fooms and the room utilized as a dining room, and being on the first floor, can easily be reached, by every one. The ladles will serve chicken the first, oysters the second, and turkey the last eveVng. The different booths at the bazaa. will be of gr,eat attraction, as the ladies have been working strenously to make them beautiful and enticing as well as profitable. The children, too, have been co-operating with their parents for the success of the affair, having been very busy for several weeks making articles for their booths at school, under the direction of the sisters.