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A Good Catholic
Is a Well-
Informed Catholic
Vol. V, No. 32
Eden Regrets Publicity
On Jailed Red Foes
By John A. Greave*
(Radio, N.C.W.C. Naw* Service)
LONDON British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden
expressed regret at the publication of a list of Catholic and
other anti-communist leaders imprisoned by communist
governments in Eastern Eurepe by the influential news
paper, The Manchester Guardian.
He denied government responsibility for the list itself
or its publication. He said that i------------------------------------------*
“if one wants to get results it is
better to treat things in a differ
ent way.”
The list was said by the Man
chester newspaper to have been
given to Soviet Premier Nikolai
Bulganin and Communist Party
leader Nikita Khrushchev by Sir
Anthony during the Russians’
state visit to Great Britain last
Eianth.
According to tho newspaper
a first
list had boon drawn up
by the Foreign Office which in
cluded the names of 20 Bulgar
ians, 27 Czechs, 61 Hungarians,
37
Poles and 49 Romanians.
Yhls list, the newspaper said,
was revised, as certain of the
listed people had been release
Sacred Heart
Program On
Columbus’ TV
Father Murphy, S. J.
Weekly telecasts of the pop
lar Sacred Heart Program have
begun over Station WTVN-TV
(Channel 6) every Sunday at
50:15 a.m. Within the past ten
months this devotional 15 min
ete film has built up a re men
ckous viewing audience from
•oasMo-coast. Since the time
It donated by
WTVN as a spe-
•fal public service, viewers are
•eked to seize this opportunity
for Catholic Action by sending
a note or letter of appreciation
the management of the sta
tion. Father Eugene P. Murphy,
S.J., is director of the program.
Bishop Gorman, Admiral
Burke Speak To Grads
NOTRE DAME, Ind. Bishop
Thomas K. Gorman of Dallas
Fort Worth will preach the bacca
laureate sermon on June 3 at
the University of Notre Dame’s
111th annual commencement.
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke,
chief of naval operations, will
give the commencement address
on the same day. Both will re
ceive honorary degrees. About
1,060 graduate, professional and
undergraduate degrees will be
awarded.
Among those due to receive
honorary degrees are Secretary
of the Treasury George M. Hum
phrey, Frank M. Folsom, presi
dent of the Radio Corporation of
America, and Dr. Philip E. Mos
ely, professor on international re
lations, Columbia University.
Celebrant of the outdoor Mass
at which Bishop Gorman will
speak is to be Bishop Leo A. Purs
ley, Apostolic Administrator of
the Diocese of Fort Wayne, Ind.
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Catholic Woman Named
D.A.V. Mother of Year
ST. PAUL—A parishioner of
St. Pascal Bayion Catholic Char.-h
here has been named D.A.V.
Mother of the year, according to
an announcement by national
headquarters of the Disabled
American Veterans. She is Mrs.
Pearl M. Kalland, wife of a World
War I disabled veteran.
Foreign Speech
Confessions Set
Father Francis Riehl, pas
tor of St. Ladislaus Church,
this week announced the fol
lowing confession schedule for
those people who do not speak
or understand the English lan
guage:
Hungarian Confessions
May 11th—3:00 and 7:30 p.m.
Slavic Confessions May
25th—3:00 and 7:30 p.m.
Italian and French Confes
sions May 18th—3:00 and
7:30 p.m.
Devotions and foreign lan
guage sermon at 7:30 pjn. on
each confession day.
from jails by their govern
ments.
Among the Catholic leaders in
the list published in the news
paper were seven Czechoslovaks
including Archbishop Joseph Be
ran of Prague and his secretary,
Monsignor John BoukaL
The newspaper said that many
other prominent Catholic church
men were named in the various
countries but it did nut give the
details.
The story causad a sensation
hara as it was tha first indica
tion that Prime Minister Eden
had moved to keep his earlier
promises on the matter of re
ligious victims. However, the
Foreign Office declined any
comment, obviously taking the
lead of tho Prime Minister who
ec'lier had requested Parlia
ment not to press him on the
matter, thereby suggesting that
something was being done un
der a diplomatic cloak.
Clergy Must
Realize Own
Need of God
Archbishop O’Hara
Reminds Priests
At Consecration
HARRISBURG, Pa.—To be in
any measure fitted for the work
of the priesthood, a man must
have a deep sense of his own
unworthiness and his complete
dependence upon God.
This was the theme of the ser
mon by Archbishop John F.
O’Hara, C.S.C., of Philadelphia at
the consecration here of the Most
Rev. Lawrence F. Schott as Titu
lar Bishop of Eluza and Auxiliary
Bishop of Harrisburg, Pa.
Bishop George L. Leech of Har
risburg was the Consecrator of
the new bishop. Co-Consecrators
were Bishops Michael J. Ready of
Columbus and James A. McNulty
of Paterson.
Bishop-elect Schott, who will be
49 in July, was consecrated in
St. Patrick’s Cathedral by Bishop
George L. Leech of Harrisburg.
Four archbishops, 23 bishops,
an archabbot and two abbots at
tended the ceremony which was
televised in its entirety by a local
station.
Bishop Schott, pastor of Our
Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Mt.
Carmel, Pa., was ordained on
June 15, 1935. He was named a
domestic prelate, with the title
of Right Reverend Monsignor, on
November 18, 1952.
In his sermon, the Archbishop
of Philadelphia stressed the de
pendence the bishop and the
priest must have on God. “It is
not enough that his (priest’s)
strength for the harvest be from
God he must know and recognize
and meditate ou Ous fact in or
der to keep an even keel between
the crests of elation and the
trough of depression to which
human nature is pronfe,” the pre
late declared.
Dealing with the responsibili
ties of the man doing God's work,
Archbishop O’Hara said it is his
duty “to give spiritual life to his
children through the sacrament
of Baptism, to nourish them with
the Bread of Life, to cure them
of their infirmities through abso
lution and Holy Anointing, to
bless them ano pray for them.
“The bishop feeds the sheep
as well as the lambs. He protects
faith and morals, he strengthens
the faithful through Confirma
tion, he provides for works of
mercy and instruction, he sends
forth laborers into the harvest.”
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Family Theater
Honors Armed
Forces Week
HOLLYWOOD—(NC)~A spe
cial broadcast calling attention to
Armed Forces Week, May 13 to
19, will be presented by /amilv
Theater on its next radio broad
cast, May 16, over the Mutual
network (WTVN carries th$ pro
gran in Columbus.
Entitled “Song for a Long
Road,” the broadcast will drama
tize an episode in the life of
Joyce Kilmer, poet and patriat.
MacDonald Carey will star as
Mr. Kilmer. The program will
be heard from 9.30 to 10 p. m.
EDT and from 8:30 to 9 p.m.,
PDT, according to a spokesman.
The Family Theater was found
ed and is produced by Father
Patrick Peyton, C.S.C. Its motto
is: “The Family That Prays To
gether, Stays Together.
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Bishop Hettinger
Confers Orders
At Josephinum
Bishop Hettinger will confer
the Subdiaconate upon 22 semin
arians at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow at
the Josephinum.
Twenty-eight other seminarians
will receive minor orders at the
same time and two will be grant
ed First Tonsure.
The 52 seminarians represent
31 dioceses across the United
States. None are from the Colum
bus Diocese.
The Apostolic Delegate, the
Most Rev. Amleto G. Cigognani,
D.D., J.U.D. will be at the Pontifi
cal College, Worthington, on May
26 to ordain candidates into the
priesthood.
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When In Rome...
“Romans weren’t built in a
day.”
No, that isn’t a typographical
error. It’s just the way Monsig
nor Irving A. Deplane illustrates
another problem in family living,
on the Editorial Page of the
Catholic Times this week.
Monsignor DeBlanc, who ap
pears in the Times for the first
time, is director of the Family
Life Bureau of the National Cath
olic Welfare Conference.
His columns, unlike the “Dear
John” letters often seen in the
secular newspapers, are guides to
daily living Catholic doctrine. So
why not turn to Page 4 and see
why “Romans weren’t built in a
day”?
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Bishop Confers
Dominican Habit
On 21 Postulants
Five young women from the Co
lumbus diocese were among 21
postulants receiving the Domin
ican habit from Bishop Ready in
ceremonies conducted yesterday
at St. Mary of the Springs.
The Very Reverend Philip Mul
hern, O.P., is preaching the re
ception retreat.
Th* diocesan postulants, with
religious names are: Helen
Groom, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. T. A. Groom, St. Leo par
ish, Sister Mari* Gregory Ter
es* Schilder, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Schilder, St.
Mary parish, Chillicothe, Sis
ter Cecilia Marie Ruth Caspar,
daughter of Mr. and Mr*.
Georg* Caspar, Immaculate
Conception parish, Sister George
Marie Judy Gordon, daughter
of Mr. and Mr*. Eugene Gor
don, St. Leo parish, Sister Mary
Carla and Carolyn Thurn,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alois
Thurn, St. Mary parish, Sister
Mary Susan.
Other postulants were Mary
Naughton, Pittsburgh, Pa. Car
roll Grimes, Flushing, N.Y. Mar
tina Grady, Milford. Mass. Bar
bara Brennan, Shelton, Conn.
Joan Carpenter, Hamden, Conn.
Anne Rutledge, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Frances Charley, Wilmerding,
Pa. Elizabeth Mersch, Washing
ton, D. C.
Patricia Orris, Braddock Pa.
Nancy Ciamacco, Toronto, O.
Winifred Watson, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Genevieve Charlesville, New
York, N.Y. Elaine Franks, Miami
Fla. Mary Geelan, New Haven,
Conn Joan Campbell, Pitts
burgh, Pa., and Mercedes Rod
gers, Braddock, Pa.
Congregational
Singing Urged
By Composer
The gentleman who sets
down at the organ regularly
at St. Mary’s Church in Ports
mouth not only plays good
music he also composes it.
Th* latest contribution to
th* musical world by 55-year
old Charles Schirrmann, a con
vert, is "Psalm 150" which Is
about to roll off the presses of
the J. Fischer and Bro*, pub
lishing house in New York
City.
The anthem providing the mu
sic for the 150th Psalm is writ
ten for soprano, alto and bass
vocal parts, with organ accom
paniment.
For Mr. Schirrmann, the publi
cation of a composition is not at
all new He wrote the new Marine
Corps hymn, “Heaven’s Scenes,”
which was played at the dedica
tion of the new Marine Corps
statue in Washington in 1954.
and he also is the composer of
several snappy tunes, including
an Elks march, as well as three
unpublished Masses.
Mr. Schirrmann'* "Mass In
Honor of St. Joseph" and "Mas*
i Honor of St. Charles" have
been widely used In churches
in the Portsmouth area. Both
are fully approved for the Co
lumbus Diocese by Father
Thomas Gallen, diocesan direc
tor of Music. He also ha* writ
ten "Laetentur Caele," which
I has been sung at Midnight
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, May 11,1956
KC Councils
Iry lo lop
Million Mark
Five councils of the
Knights of Columbus have
announced plans for a joint
drive to enlist the one mill
ionth member of their organ
ization.
The local drive, conducted by
the five Columbus councils of
the Knights of Columbus is part
of a nationwide concerted effort
to raise the total membership of
the fraternal organization to one
million, by May 20.
Grand Knight Joseph Reis,
of Santa Maria Council 2898,
2596Va W. Broad St., is gen
eral chairman of the joint com
mittee which is formulating
plans for the drive.
The representatives from the
other Councils are: Grand
Knights, John Quint, Rosary
Council 4180 Tri-village William
Downey, Assumption Council
3727, northside George Arnold,
Council 400, central: and David
McNerney, Marian Council 3864
on the eastside.
District Deputy Paul J. Lynch
announced that the combined
membership of these councils is
more than two thousand.
All practical Catholic men,
18 or older, ar* eligible for
membership in the Knights of
Columbus and all prospective
members of th* order should
coptact th* Grand Knight of
their area council.
The First Degree will be given
at. 8:30 p. m. Thursday, May 17,
at 8:30 p. m. in the Santa Maria
Council on the Hilltop. The sec
ond degree will be given at 8:30
p.m., May 18, in the same council.
Sunday, May 20th, all Knights
of Columbus and their candi
dates will meet at 9:30 a. m. in
Council 400 at Sixth and
Oak streets, and march to Holy
Cross Church for Mass and Holy
Communion.
After Mass a breakfast will be
served at the Seneca Hotel. Im
mediately following the breakfast
the Third Degree will be con
ferred on the new members at
the Council 400 home.
A dinner-social to celebrate the
conclusion of the membership
drive will be served at 7 p. m. in
the Seneca Hot61.
Deputy Grand Knight Thomas
D. O’Brien of Santa Maria Coun
cil is in charge of the breakfast
and dinner arrangements.
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Religious Order
To Direct Basilica
ROME—(NC)—An agreement
giving the Redemptorist Fathers
“direction and care of the serv
ice” of the patriarchel basilica
of St. Mary Major here has es
tablished a unique arrangement
among the administrations of
this city’s major churches.
As its name implies, St. Mary
Major is the most important of
the many churches of the world
built to give particular homage
to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Of the four major basilicas
here—St. John Lateran, St. Peter,
St. Mary Major and St. Paul—
only one other until this time
has been entrusted to a religious
order. St. Paul Outside the Walls
and the adjacent monastery have
been directed by the Cassinese
I Benedictines for many centuries.
..holic Times
Accuses Reds of Terrorism
&' 4
Msgr. Bela Varga, Hungarian political refugee, talk* with
Dr. Sander Nyirjesky before testifying before the Senate Internet
Security Subcommittee during a probe of pressures against foreign
nationals in the U.S. Msgr. Varga chargod that Hungary's Legation
in Washington committed "Acts of Terrorism" against Iron Cur
tain refugees in Americe. Nyirjesky also was a witness before
the Senate group.
Reunion of Russian Orthodox
With Church Believed Near
WASHINGTON (NC) Re
union of tens of millions of Or
thodox Catholics in Russia with
the Roman Catholic Church may
be closer than most people real
ize.
This was emphasized by Father
Feodor Wilcock, English Jesuit
Priest, who is director of the
Russian Center at Fordham Uni
versity and a leading expert on
Soviet Russia. He said that the
principal but not irreconcilable
obstacle to reunion was that the
Orthodox still refuse to acknowl
edge the spiritual supremacy of
the Pope.
American Catholics, in par
ticular, Fr. Wilcock explained,
should know that the Orthodox
Catholics of 4lussia have the
apostolic succession of their
hierarchy and priests, valid
sacraments and rites that are
derived from the Byzantine
Rite in the Roman Catholic
Church. Only a few minor the
ological differences exist, he
added, and these could be
quickly resolved.
To expedite reunion, he pre
dicted, the Roman Catholic
Church would not ask the Ortho
dox to follow the Roman Rite,
with which Orthodox Catholics,
are unfamiliar. The Orthodox
would retain all of their present
Portsmouth Man Puts Psalm 150 to Music
Masses on Christmas.
At St. Mary’s, Mr Schirrmann
is organist for the men’s choir,
which sings every other Sunday.
He offers all of his services with
out pay.
Like his fellow perishionrs,
he is looking forward next
month to the installation of a
new organ at St. Mary's. Th*
new instrument is a Wicks two
manual organ, and ha* two con
soles one in the sanctuary
and one in the gallery. The old
organ dates from 1870 and is a
museum piece.
The organist, incidentally, is
an advocate of congregational
singing of the Mass. At St. Mary’s,
there are Mass cards in every
pew and the response, says
Schirrmann, has been “very grat-
Senate Unit Urged to Back Resolution
Asking U.S. to Lead Way in Adopting
ILO Convention Outlawing Slave Labor
religious customs and practices,
he said.
"Th* Roman Catholic Church
wouldn't insist on absolute uni
formity by th* Orthodox be
cause th* unity of the Catholic
Church," he declared, "is one
of tremendous variety.
“We have the biggest variety
of different peoples, languages,
customs and traditions in the
world in the Roman Catholic
Church, all brought together by
the true unity of faith and hier
archy.”
Because reunion with Orthodox
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NCWC Names
As Catholic
WASHINGTON, C. Maria
Augusta Trapp, mother of the fa
mous Trapp Family Singers, has
been named Catholic Mother of
1956. Mrs. Trapp will receive a
gold medal from the National
Catholic Welfare Conference.
The date of the presentation has
not yet been announced.
This Catholic Mother of the
year is known to thousands who
have heard the family sing on its
ifying.”
The versatile musician, who
resides at 827 Second St., also is
a music instructor in Portsmouth
grade schools, pianist for the Elks
Lodge, Exchange and Rotary
Clubs, and gives piano and organ
lessons.
Born in Cincinnati, Mr. Schirr
mann is a graduate of the College
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Msgr. Hi/gins said noth the ILO
and the United Nations have is
sued studies proving the exist
ence of slave labor in communist
countries. The “logical way” to do
something about these reports is
to proceed through an interna
tional agency, he maintained.
'The logical and competent
international agency is th* ILO,
one of th* most effective and
highly respected specialized
Requiem Offered
For Sr. Myra, O.P.
Solemn Requiem Mass for Sis
ter M. Myra Lund, O.P., was of
fered Monday in the convent
Chapel of St. Mary of the Springs.
Father Urban Nagle, O.P., was
celebrant.
Sister Myra, who died at the
Springs May 3, had retired from
active work in last November be
cause ofillness.
A native of New Haven. Conn.,
she was born Oct. 12, 1890 and
entered the novitiate in 1913. Her
teaching assignments in Ohio in
cluded St. Mary', Marietta St.
Francis de Sales and Blessed Sac
rament. Newark St. Thomas,
Zanesville Holy Name, Steuben
ville Sacred Heart, Coshocton,
and Holy Name, Columbus.
Sister Myra is survived by three
sisters. Mrs. Anna King and Miss
Jean Lund of Connecticut, and
Miss Grace Lund of Washington,
DC.
Maria Trapp
Jther of Year
many concert tours. Thousands
of others nave come to know Mrs.
Trapp and her efforts at build
ing a model Christian home
through her book, “The Story of
the Trapp Family Singers.”
One of her daughters said she
is called “Mother” by “more peo
ple than I have ever known.” The
reason, the girls, explained, is
the genuine interest Mrs. Trapp
shows to everyoae she meets.
She said ler mother s “upper
most principle” in making deci
sions of importance was the on
sideratiqn: “What would God
wants us to do?”
It was just such a decision that
brought the celebrated family
to the United States. They left
Austria when the Nazis took over
their country. Their medieval
castle in the Austrian Tyrol and
all their possessions were con
fiscated. They started life in the
United States penniless, but they
continued the singing that had al
ready given them fame in Aus
tria.
Baron Georg Trapp and Mrs.
Trapp were married November
26, 1927. Then 21 years old. Mrs.
Trapp took charge of the seven
children the Baron, a widower,
already had. She had three chil
dren of her own. Her husband
died a few years ago.
It is the home life of the Trapp
family that has served as an in
spiration to so many people. The
family has attempted to live as
complete a liturgical life as pos
sible. Mrs. Trapp described that
life in another book, “Around the
Year with the Trapp Family,” a
book of religious customs in the
home.
She is also the author of “Yes
terday, Today and Forever,” and
is currently writing a book en
titled, “Family on Wheels,” which
tells of the experiences of a fam
ily of 10 children when it tours
the country in a bus.
The choral group has taken
its last tour. Mrs. Trapp now
plans to continue the Trapp Fam
ily Music Camp in Stowe, Vt.,
and to intensify efforts to make
her home a school of joyful liv
ing.
Remember
Yonr
Easter Duty
Price Tan Cents ’$3.00 A Year
Agency Formed to Work For
Peace By Promoting Justice
WASHINGTON— (NC) —A Senate subcommittee has
urged to back a congressional resolution calling upon this
country to be the prime mover in the adoption by the In
ternational Labor Organization of a convention outlawing
slave labor.
The plea for support of the
resolution came from Msgr.
George G. Higgins, director of the
Social Action Department of the
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference here. Msgr. Higgins gave
his views in a statement submit
ted to a subcommittee of the Sen
ate Committee on Labor and Pub
lic Welfare.
“In my judgment,” he toid the
legislators, “the adootion of this
letolution is the m.nimum ex
pected of us by the rest of the
free world and is morally and in
good conscience the le«ut that
we can do to put an end to the
evil of forced labor.”
units of the United Nations.
Th* logical instrument is an
ILO convention outlawing forc
ed labor for political and eco
nomic purposes," he declared.
The ILO, with headquarters in
Geneva, was established in 1919.
It includes delegations from 71
member countries, including com
munist nations It describes its
purpose as an agency to work
for peace by promoting social jus
tice and to improve labor condi
tions and living standards
Msgr. Higgins said it seems cer
tain the ILO will adopt a conven
tion and the U.S. will be in “a
most awkward and embarrassing
position before the world if it is
not in the vanguard of the move
njent.
He said that beyond this is the
question of whether or not this
nation can fail to support “all
peaceful means of fighting hu
man slavery wherever it might
exist.”
“A11 human beings are children
of God, made in His image and
likeness.” Msgr Higgins deriared
in his statement. “We cannot as
a nation in clear conscience fail
to do everything possible to help
make them free, to help restore
to them the human dignity which
God intended them to possess."
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Father Of
Chaplain Dies
A solemn requiem mass was
offered Saturday in St Mary's
church. Springfield, for Edwin E.
Hopping, father of Chaplain
Thomas E. Hopping, a former
priest of the diocese of Columbus
now stationed at Okinowa with
the United States Air Force.
Father Hopping was commis
sioned a Captain in the Chaplains
Corps on Nov. 5, 1948. His pre
vious assignments were at Holy
Rosary, Columbus St. Rose par
ish, New Lexington and St. Pet
er’s church. Chillicothe.
Captain Hopping was original
ly ordained for the Cincinnati
Archdiocese and came to Colum
bus when that territory was an
nexed to Columbus in November
of 1944.
Besides Captain Hopping, sur
vivors include three other broth
ers, James, Kenneth and Elwood
and two daughters, Marguerite
Hopping and Catherine Brewer,
at whose home Mr. Hopping died
on May 1. Burial was in Calvary
cemetery, Springfield.
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Censorship Law
Seen No Threat
To Press Freedom
ALBANY, N.Y.—(NC) The
Court of Appeals here has ruled
that a state law aimed at obscene
publications is not a threat to
freedom of the press.
The unanimous decision of the
six judges was that a series of pa
per cover booklets which gave rise
to the case at hand are “indisput
ably pornographic, indisputably
obscene and filthy.”
Defenders of the booklets ar
gued that preventing distribution
of the publications under a 1941
state law is “unconstitutional
‘prior restraint,’ interfering with
freedom of speech and press.”
However, Judge Stanley Fuld
pointed out in the opinion that,
while freedom of expression is
“not absolute or unqualified un
der all circumstances,” the broad
question of general censorship,
“even in the area of obscenity,"
was not involved in the case.
“Where the publication is one
plainly obscene, serving no pur
pose but to satisfy a market for
filth and smut, there could be no
harm to the public in completely
removing it from circulation fol
lowing a judicial adjudication of
obscenity,” Judge Fuld said.
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Change Mass
Hours At
Buckeye Lake
A schedule calling for four
Sunday Masses during the sum
mer for Buckeye Lake visitors
wa£ announced this week for Our
Lady of Mt. Carmel Church.
Father John Eyerman, pastor,
said that Masses on the Sundays
of May, June, July, August and
through September will be cele
brated at 7, 8:30, 10:30 a. m. and
the last mass beginning at 13,
moon.