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...Sundays before it begins, all churches are draped with mourning purple in memory of Christ's Passion. A change occurs on Laetare ("Rejoice") or Rose Sunday, when the Church bids her faithful for a day to look beyond the sorrows of Lent to the rejoicings of the coming Easter and when rose vestments and draperies are substituted for purple. To Pope Pius XI in Vatican City, Laetare Sunday last week was especially a day for rejoicing. With use of his varicose-veined legs partially restored, the Holy Father performed the ancient Laetare ceremony of Blessing the Golden Rose...
...vase was brought into the Pope's apartment, placed upon a candlelit table. Vested in rose garments, Pius XI prayed over the Rose, incensed it, poured balsam and musk into a tiny cup in its centre. The Golden Rose will be presented to Italy's Queen after Easter by Monsignor Borgongini Duca, Papal Nuncio to Italy...
...Ryan viewed it and, unaware that it is animated by electric motors, fainted when Christ's head moved. She told her good friend, Trinity's Rector Frederic Sydney Fleming, this experience and he got President Burdick to lend the diorama, valued at $7,500, for the Easter season...
Paramount evidence of the verity of this unique attitude, is the annual trip to Bermuda where the team guiltlessly disregards already non-existent training rules, to enjoy its Easter vacation as one should. Another feature of an intersquad game, rather than concentrated practice in perfecting fundamentals...
...squad of 20 men will be taken down to Bermuda during the Easter Vacation, where they will play the first three games of their season against the Bermuda Athletic Association team, the Princeton team, and a team made up of the best players that Bermuda has to offer. During the rest of the season there are games every Saturday until...