Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-03-23

| "FSs Is Sometimes called the great week, - q
! Of sorrows. and Il e days q the Gross ire
observance OF this week Is to som morats u .
memory of the passion and death &c the Sa.
! yiour, and every portion OF the Liturgy Is
| directed to Ibis end. Tie week commences az
! Palm Sunday twh!'h was las Sunday and
closes 81 Easter. Palm Sunday is SO called
! because IL Is observed 10 houor the Triumphant
! entry of Christine Jerusalem when bran ches
I were cut snd sIewn in the road over which he
! WIS TO pass. 1t is In memory. OF this triumph
/ that the palms are blessed. distributed to the
! fai'htu, and carried BY thent in procession
| Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Of this
week masses are said, which are usually At
tended by the mhcrship. On Wednesday,
| Thu1fday and Friday the Church celebrate
| the solemn office usually called the "renehiai,"
WHEN every expression OF Joy and festivity il
Tor The suierings Of her Redeemer. During
this office tha candles on the altar are extin-
gplshed with one exception-that remaining
typfyinE ChIs;.sna this il oniy hidden for
laid in the sepulchre, yet he WAS always alive.
| according 10 HIS divinity by which he raised
His body again to life.
Thursday is celebrated as the day when
Christ instituted the sacrament, and the ser
wees ara peculiarly Impressive. The holy
eucharistis celebrated, and therefore the cn urch
must show some signs Of Joy and praise al.
though during the week 6 he is wholly taken up
with the passion OF Christ. During the day
the affairs are Invested of their coverings and
ornaments, and the ceremony OF washing the
feet is performed.
The church on Friday commentaries the
, bloody sacrifice OF the cross. No ssacrifce Is 1
onered this Day, nor is the holy eucharist con-
seeTated, SO that, in the Office, she contents her.
self with the bare representation of Christ
cTucifed. At the mass the priests and his min
listers go TO the altaTs clothed In black vest
ments, and while bearing the acolytes cover
the altar with a linen cloth; after which, mass
Is performed. The crucifxion Is adored, and
when tue adUration Ii almost ended the candles
are lighted; after which, the cross Is placed
upon the altar. The blessed sacrament, which
wasput away the previous day, is now brought
back and placed on the altar, where it is fumed
with incense. Wine and water is put in thu
chalice and Get on the altar, and with the sacred
host ia fumed. The priest then signs himself
closed with vexpers.
On Saturday the affairs are dressed, but the
candles are not Lighted until the beginning OF
and Goals lighted, and the priests at the en-
trance Of the church blesses the new fire. The
triple candle, Pmplematic Of the light of CHRIST,
is next blessed and lighted. The paschul can
die, containing five grains of incense, emblemt.
tic 81 the aromatic spices with which the
Savibr was embalmed, is blessed, the incense
beirk fixed in it in the form OF a cross and the
bspHsmal font Is consecrated, the holy water
beng distributed 10 the faithful.
OnSunday the church puts on her robes OF
REJOICING. ~ - @.''.Af
MALICIOUS MIscHIEY.-Monday afternoon,
Anthony Dean, laborer, went into the tavern
OF John Thomas, on Seventh street, between r.
and +, and asked Tor a towel and water to wash
himself, he having been badly beaten by some
parties. MIR. Thomas told him to 20 where he
had been beaten to wash himself, when Dean
got turbulent and undertook to tear down the
sign and break the windows and doors. He
was arrested by Officer BOYLE and taken to the
station. and after being locked up all nigh. he
was fined S21.5s by Justice Boswell.
~
CRIMINAL COURT, Chief Jnsttc> Coraer-
Yesterday, Laura Thomas plead guilty to
petty larceny, and was sentenced TO ten days
in jail.
Samuel Walker, Indicted for grand larceny,
piead guilty, and was sentenced to three years
IN the penitentiary.
Caesar Smith, indie ted for grand larceny of
liquors, was convicted OF petty larceny.
REAL EsrArH AND SrocK SALBs.-Iots d. in
square t01, house thereon, being the we'll kno wn
cigar store occupied by our esteemed friend
and pitcher, Geo. W. Cochrane, was sold by J.
purchased BY p. T.:Lutz; 81 400 Corporation OF
Washington stock AZ par, with interest from
January lst
OHARIrABLK.-The camsl's hair shawl sent
TO the Patent Office faiY BY A. r. Stewart, and
drawn in the rafie by Mrs. Marshall Brown,
ehell, to be disposed Of for She benefit Of the
Protestant and Catholic Orphan Asylums.
Pos1PoHEHBNF.-Asw will be seen by our ad-
vertieine columns, the Great National Circus
storm tba, prevailed iassnisht and early his
morning.
PRo4OfKp.-F. W. Mead has been promoted
from an assistant surgeon In the LIST District
Regimen', 10 surgeon, vice Dr.. Hines e.
signed ~
AMONG other donations to the Patent Once
fair was one OF IS from DR.. Burrows, and the
same GIN cunt from MI De Haven. of Philsdel-
phia. T. -.- -..E.-Hr "a
RIHlp.-F. Strosch, keeper of a ga loon on til
street, and Z. Tip, corner Of eth and streets,
were each fined 800 yesterday by Justice Fer
snr. for selling LIQUOR oil Sundns