Time capsule is placed in the corner stone until 2109

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Msgr. Joseph Mayo (back left), pastor of the Cathedral of the Madeleine and The Most Rev. John C. Wester, bishop of Salt Lake, prepare to place the time capsule sealed in the vault in the corner stone of the southwest corner of Cathedral of the Madeleine.

Editor’s Note: The Most Rev. John C. Wester, bishop of Salt Lake, placed the time capsule in the corner stone of the southwest corner of the Cathedral of the Madeleine following the 11 a.m. Mass March 14. This closes the centennial year of the Dedication of the Cathedral of the Madeleine.

The time capsule will reside there for 100 years and will be opened sometime in 2109. Among its contents were Bernice Mooney and Msgr. J. Terrence Fitzgerald’s "Salt of the Earth: The History of the Catholic Diocese in Utah, 1776-2007," Dr. Gary Topping’s "The Story of the Cathedral of the Madeleine," newspaper editions from the Intermountain Catholic, artifacts and the following letter from Bishop Wester.

To the Church of God that is in the Diocese of Salt Lake City – Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

As we conclude our celebration of our Cathedral’s Centenary, I am honored to extend to all who read this letter the affection and best wishes of the local Church as you celebrate the bicentennial of the Cathedral of the Madeleine.

Our vibrant, intercultural Church has been praying for you, confident that Our Lord Jesus Christ, who has started his good work in us, will bring it to fulfillment in you and in the generations to come. Like you, we have been thanking God for all the graces poured out on us here in the Beehive State and we know that God’s loving providence and mercy will continue to shine in this believing community, as evidenced in your good selves.

As fellow members of the Communion of Saints, we join you, in the words of St. John of the Cross, in lifting our eyes adoring to the face of Christ who has imprinted, deep within his eyes, his grace on us.

May you be held always in his loving embrace, abiding in Christ forever, and trusting that he, the Alpha and the Omega, will guard what has been entrusted to you until that day when Christ will gather us all to himself.

To Christ be the glory and the power and the honor, now and forever. Amen.