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Show NESSAGE :#= 13, February, 1973 from Father Liebler Brother Juniper at Helen Sturges I-ielen Eskell HA'f ROCK VALLEY RETREA'f CEN'l'ER, P.O o Box 5 Honument Valley, Utah 84536 Hessages 1-12 have been issued semi-annua lly since September, 1966. Some back numbers are available. Ask. A semi-annual periodical must necessarily report some stale "ne,vs", so we make no apology for running an account of the BIG EV&~T that followed soon after our last Message went out. It made headlines in Sal t Lal<:e City papers, so it must be an item of importance. Bishop E. O. Charles , our new Diocesan , 'vrote Father Liebler that he had made him honorary Canon of St. Hark's Cathedral, but that the formal announcement would not be made until t he annual gathering at st. Christopher's Mission on July 25th where there would also be a regional meeting of the National Council of Indian liorkers. We four Hent to the· meeting, of course, and it was a great experience, neeting many people , making new friends and celebra ting Eucharist together. In place of a sermon, Father told the legend of St. Christopher. A few weeks later, on the Feast of our Lady's Assumption, the newly made Canon was formally "seated" ·in his stall at the Cathedral in Salt Lake City where he also preached the sermon and later renewed many old friendships. When Father Wayne. left St. Christopher's late in August and it did · . not seem that his successor was to take over in the forseeable future, Fr. Liebler made the offer to the Bishop to hold a Sunday afternoon Hass there, 'vhich offer was gladly accepted. It makes a full Sunday, to be sure, for an octogenarian retired priest, with the morning Mass here and sermons in both place::>. But it a l so inVOlves a volunteer to drive the l20-plus mile round trip in addition to the driving needed here for our distant communicants. The attenda.1ce has been growing-- a statement which might be misleading unless one adds that it could hardly be otherwise; one canVt get much lower than threeo Many of you probably get the Newsletter from the Nission, and we trust that all will respond to the urgent appeal of the last one. I am sure that the 'vriter of it did not intend to convey the idea, which might be inferred, that there is nothing wrong with the Mission that a couple of dozen thousand dollar bills would not remedy 0 True, the financial situation is serious, but far more serious is the spiritual situation. The late Bishop Webb of Milwaul<:ee, used to say that he could fairly well estimate the spiritual condition of a parish by the number of persons he found in church five minutes before the Sunday eucharist began. By that standard the Mission ·is spiritually bankrupt. Your prayers are needed even more than your moneyo Individuals, groups, whole parishes at prayer in the Spirit may open the hearts of the People who once heard the full Gospel message to receive their Saviour again. Other problems will t~en fall into place. AND, FROM BROTHER JUNIPER: The Canon says it's time to get out another Message, so here goes: For some time we have been trying to fix up the ground floor of our house so that it would be more usable. Ever since the house was built I have been trying to figure out how to use the space under the front porcho Last fall we decided to dig |
