Lanterna Rally

Author: Thomas E. Connolly

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Published: 1993

Total Pages: 60

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"This collection of prayers and hymns has been prepared in tribute to the Catholic Indians of the Jesuit Rocky Mountain Missions: to the chiefs, prayer leaders, and Indians of the first hundred years, who generously devoted themselves to the teaching of their Blackrobes, and developed a rich Indian liturgy around these prayers and hymns; and to today's Indians of the second hundred years, who may never know nor take part in these devotions, that they may always reverence and remain close to the Faith of their fathers...The translation of the prayers and many of the hymns has been taken from manuscript ntoes of Rev. Edward Griva, S.J., Rev. John Post, S.J., and Rev. William Ryan, S.J. Other hymns have been translated with the help of the various Indians who recorded them. All the hymns were recorded on tape recorder during the years 1956 and 1957 by the following persons: Spokanes, Cole Moses and Isaac Camille, Kalispels, Joe Ignace and Catherine Fry; Coeur d'Alenes, Mitch and Mary Michael, Catherine Paschal Finley, Ignace Williams, and Ignace Garry; Flathead and Kalispels, Joe Woodcock, Sophie Conko, Mary Combes, Ellen Big Sam, and Mary Pokèrjim." -- Introduction.