Financial Statement and Building Fund Report

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT 1927 SACRED HEART RECTORY 3108 S Street LINCOLN, NEBRASKA DEAR PARISHONERS AND FRIENDS: January, 1928. Another year has been added to the history of our parish. Let us stop and look back with sincere satisfaction in the consciousness of duty well done for God. The annual report which we submit to you is the accumulation of spontaneous expressions of love and gratitude to our Divine Saviour who has so graciously and so abundantly blessed us during the year 1927. Gladly now may each one of us exclaim with the Psalmst, "My delight is in the law of the Lord." The building which now constitutes our church and school has been erected for the benefit of each member of the parish, young and old, rich and poor. Here alone will you find that pence and consolation of soul which the world cannot give. From here extends the gentle loving Saviour's invitation, "Come to Me all ye that labor and are burdened and I will refresh you." To which invitation He adds a request in testing our love for Him, "Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me for I am weak and humble of heart and you shall find rest for your souls." As not one of us would reasonably expect to share the home of another without sharing in its expense, so no one member of this parish, young or old, can reasonably expect the benefits and blessings of religion without making a just recompense. A sense of just pride and fair play should urge us to promptitude and generosity toward the heavy debt that now weighs upon the people and priests of the parish, and while we urge you strongly to be generous in a financial way, we urge you still more to be really generous in a spiritual way. Your frequent attendance at Holy Mass and evening devotions, with the frequent reception of the life-giving sacraments of Penamee and the Holy Eucharist is the first duty you owe to your own soul. To foster that spiritual life that springs from these fountains of grace, we recommend strongly that you be mindful of the perpetual novenas that are now established in our church. On each Tuesday the perpetual novena to St. Anthony, the Great Wonder Worker, takes place. Mass on that morning at 7:00 o'clock and devotions in the evening at 7:30. The perpetual novena in honor of the Sacred Heart takes place on each Friday, Mass at 7:00 o'clock and devotions in the evening at 7:30. In the next week we shall have established a perpetual novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. A rare and beautiful statue has been ordered and will soon be erected on Our Lady's new altar. In the near future we will place in your hands a short history of these devotions, together with prayers for the novenas. In his great encycleal, "Rete Explatis," for the seventh centenary of the death of St. Francis, Pape Plus XI expresses the hope and desire that all the world be made to understand the purpose of the Third Order. While, therefore, we pray that God and our Seraphie Father St. Francis may never cease to regard and prosper from on high the my…