Wouldn't it be interesting to travel back in time to the year 1908, for example. St. Patrick's parishioners would have enjoyed their small wooden church by that time for 14 years. Parish families numbered 60 in 1893, so that number likely would have grown by 1908. Their pastor, Father Polycarp Van Mourik, O.F.M., would come out, perhaps by horse and buggy (or maybe simply on horseback) from St. Frances de Sales parish at 18th and J in Lincoln--some distance at that time--to hear confessions on Saturday evening. He apparently slept overnight in the sacristy in order to be on hand for Mass on Sunday morning. What that meant in the cold winter months is not hard to imagine. It is also possible that parishioners offered their hospitality to their pastor when an overnight stay was in order. Father Polycarp was a member of the Franciscan Fathers whom Bishop Bonacum had asked to staff the parish of St. Frances de Sales and its mission parishes. (Continued)