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Holy God, we
praise thy name;
Lord of all, we bow before thee;
all on earth thy scepter claim;
all in heaven
above adore thee. Infinite thy vast
domain; everlasting is thy reign. Infinite thy vast domain; everlasting is thy reign.
Most Reverend Bishop Treinen
Very Reverend Reverend Fathers
dear Sisters and
my dear friends of Lewiston
a hundred years for us
is something great
in our eyes
very few
human beings reach
the uh...
age of one hundred years
and we can realize
the truth of the fact
because
even less than
uh... looking back a little less than twenty centuries
a little less than twenty
series of one hundred years
we come to the time
when Christ our lord walked upon the Earth
and taught
His beautiful doctrine
taught us
of the
dignity of man
based
solidly
upon the Son ship of God
and the brotherhood
of all men
and
before He
departed from this Earth gave
command
that His disciples
would go to the ends of the Earth
and bear witness to Him
and teach His beautiful doctrine
To all men
even to the end of the time
if we go back
only about
two centuries
we come to the very beginning
of our own
nation and we know
the wonderful things to the taken place
in the world since then
going back a hundred years
brings us to the
end of the civil war
and brings us
to the occasion that we are
celebrating here today
only a few years before that
the community of Lewiston
had been formed
It was formed of people
who were beginning to come to the West to look for homes
to look for gold
to look for adventure
for different reasons
and some of them settled here
we know that
by the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-three
the uh... present state of
Idaho
was separated from the oregon territory
and pour it into the
territory of
Idaho and
that uh... Lewiston even at that time had sufficient importance
to host
the first
meeting
of the territorial legislature that met here in December of that year
going back exactly a hundred years we come to the
first arrival of
the emissaries
the missionaries
of our Lord
the Jesuit uh...
Order
its uh... providence in northern Italy
some years before that had sent
men to this western territory mainly to work
and one of them
Father Cataldo
happened to be stationed in this territory
and received an appeal from the people of Lewiston
to begin a Church here
he didn't have
many men to dispose of,
but he did the best he could
He came an established
the uh... first Church
that first Church
didn't have the services
of a permanent pastor
It was only later on
in eighteen hundred eighty-three that first permanent Pastor
another uh...
Italian
Father Alexander Diomedi
came and uh... was appointed the first permanent pastor in Lewiston
so today
we celebrate the
coming and the establishment
of the church
In Lewiston
and as we look around us we realize that the work of the past century has been
well done
we can see the uh...
establishment as it exists today
two Parishes
a hospital
a school
and above all
a uh...
people in whom,
to whom the faith really means something
a people who have received that primitive
message of our Lord, that essential message of our lord
to love God on with our whole heart
and to love our neighbor as ourselves
on an occasion like this
we look back and thank
and thank God
for the favors that he has uh... bestowed upon us in the past
and
we uh...
also take a look
to the future
now some of us
who are getting on years
feel
a bit of uh...
hesitation
in looking too strongly at what lies before us
we feel a bit of trepidation
as we see
the things that we
were acquainted with
pass away
new things
appear on the scene
everything seems to be new
everything seems to be in a state of
very rapid change
and so we worry
and wonder what will come of it all
yet uh...
deep down in our hearts
we know there is no reason for worry
we know that the Pilgrim Church
received the promise of Christ
that He would be it until the end of time
that He would send it the Holy Spirit
to guide it
in the way of Truth
until the end of time
our confidence
our hope for the future
is built on that promise of our Lord
that "I will be with you all days until the end of the world"
and so we know today
that although
we're hesitant about
what may come
and wonder about the changes that are taking place
that our Lord will be with us
will guide us
will lead us in the way of Truth
and that the century lying ahead of us
will have
wonders even much greater
then those that have taken place
in the past
so let us thank God
from our hearts
of the century that has passed
and beg Him humbly
and fervently
to bless us
for the century that is opening now.
BISHOP TREINEN: The Lord be with you PEOPLE: And with you Spirit
BISHOP: Bless be the name of the Lord
PEOPLE: Now and forever
BISHOP: Our help is the name of the Lord PEOPLE: Who made Heaven and Earth
BISHOP: May Almighty God Bless you
BISHOP: The Father
BISHOP: and the Son
BISHOP: and the Holy Spirit. PEOPLE: Amen.
[Organ Music playing]
I would like to take this opportunity to thank
everybody here
especially Bishop Gleason for his
beautiful sermon on this occasion
the choir, the young Jesuit
fraters or scholastics who are here to sing so beautifully
Father Elliott
Father Phelan
and all the Priests
and servers who helped at the Sanctuary
the Sisters
and all these
wonderful people. May God Bless you!