Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-11
HOLY WEEK CEREMONIAL
The Fast Verging Toward q
Feast-How Its Last Days Are
Spent BY It's Observers-COm-
memorating the CrucifixiOn.

memorattng the CruclnxlOn.
The penitential season of Lent is fast
/ drawing to a close This is its most
solemn day, beingcommemorative OF the
crucifxion of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Though Holy Week is lmpressively OBJ
served IN the Protestant Episcopal as
well as i'm the Roman Catholic churches,
| il is in the latter that ceremonial lar
more varied and imposing Is witnessed
at this time. At the Cathedral the cere-
monies began on last Sunday with the
blessing and distribution among the
people of palm branches, in memory
of the triumphant entry OF Jesus
| Christ into Jerusalem, when many OF
the Jews strewed with branches Of
trees the way on which he was to pass.
| This evening the solemn OF the Tene-
brae will be concluded. 1t began on
"Wednesday evening and was continued
| last evening. Each. of these services
consists of the mathis and lauds Of the
day Immediately following. The name
! Tenebrae is given from the circum-
/ stance of eXtinguishing, during the
course of the service, all the lights in
the sanctuary. The rites of the church
upon these three days declare her con.
| Germ and trouble for the sutferings OF
her Redeemer and the sins OF men. She
laws aside every expression OF Joy and
festiyitv. The doxology is omitted at
| the end of the psalms. No hymns OF
praise are sung. No DOnliRus coliseum is
pronounced. The psalms and lessons
| that constitute the office breathe scarcely
ANYTHING else but signs and la
mentations. These we're chanted by
a large number OF the clergy,
Bishop Kahn presiding on his throne. A
| triangular candlestick, representing the
Blessed Trinity, the fundamental article
of the Catholic faith, stands on the Epis-
tie side Of the main altar, and contains
! fifteen lighted candles. At the repeti-
| ton of the fourteen AntiphOns in the
mathis and lauds, fourteen OF the can
dies are extinguished, and at the last SIX
verses OF the BenediCtus those on the
altar are put out to signify that the Jews
were totally deprived of the light of
faith when they put the Savior to death
| But the fifteenth candle, representing
Jesus Christ, is only hidden for short
time under the altar and afterwards
brought out again, still burning, to sig
nifv that Christ, though he died i'll the
flesh and was laid in the sepulchre, yet
was always alive, according to his Dr.
vinity, by which he raised his body to
| life. The gloom pervading the sanctua-
nv while the Miserere and prayer are
| being said, represents the pitchy dark
! ness that covered the earth at the time
of the crucitixion, and the noise made
at the end OF the prayer by the clergy
and assistants in striking their books
against their hands, represents the con-
vulsions undergone by nature for the
! loss OF its Author, when the earth trem-
! bled, rocks were rent, cranes opened,
dead arose to life and the veil of the
! temple torn from top TO bottom. On the
morning of Yesterday, Maunday Thurs
dav, $50 called from MUaddtum in the
rubric, the name for the ceremony OF
washing the feet, the Mass OF the Holy
! Eucharist was celebrated, JOY and
thanksgiving being expressed by the
| ringing of bells during the Gloria, and
hv the white color of the vestments
and of the altar ornaments. This is
done because Maunday Thursday, COM
memOratrs the institution OF the Holy
Eucharist. But, after the Gloria in
| EXcclSis, the bells are silent until the
recurrence OF the hymn on Holy Satur-
dav, to signify the silence OF Christ
during his passion. After the Mass the
| HOLY Eucharist was removed from the
| main altar and carried in procession
of the clergy, preceded by acOlytes bear
ing lighted tapcrs and offering burning
| incense, to a repository fitted up on one
of the side affairs with flowers, ever
! greens and arches of light. 1t was so
removed that the devotion OF the pas
sion, which began the evening before at
! the TenebrT, might be continued with
| out pomp or magnitiCence. The throng
| of woshipers was immense at the SER
vices. and during the day many hun
dreds flocked to adore the Sacred Host
in the repository. To-day there is no
sacrifice nor conservation of the Holy
Eucharist, the celebrant receiving the
! Sacred Host ConsCCrated yesterday. So
that instead of the Mass, the Passion
is represented and the cross vene-
rated by the people who Ockaround the
! railing of the sanctuary and kiss the foot
| of the CruCifiX as it is presented TO each
person by the officiating clergyman.
| After this ceremony procession, the
same as that of yesterday, is formed and
will bring back the Holy Eucharist from
the repository to the main altar, which
had been stripped OF every ornament.
| The office is then finished by the cele-
| brants receiving the Sacred Host. At
| the service tomorrow morning the al
/ tars deprived OF their ornaments yester-
/ day will be again clothed with them.
| The triple candle will be lighted, emble-
matte OF the light OF Christ, and signify
! ing that the faith of the Blessed Trinity
proceeds from that light. The PasChal
| candle, figure of the body OF Christ,
| will be blessed, five grains of
! blessed incense, representing the
aromatics used in embalming the body
in the scpulchre, being inserted in it.
! The lighting OF this candle represents
| His rising again To new life, and that
| of the other candles that the resurrec-
| ton of the Head will be followed by that
of the members. Then will follow the
blessing of the baptismal font, after
/ which the Litany and the Mass will be
sung. Incense will be used at the Cos
pei to represent the perfumes carried by
! the women TO the SaviOur's tomb; but
no lights will be carried, as at other
times. because neither they nor the
| Apostles believed in His resurrection.
| For the same reason the Credo will not
! be sung. The otfcrtory, the kiss of
! peace and the communion will be omit
ted, it having always been the custom
! with the faithful TO postpone the recep-
/ ton of the HOlV Eucharist until the
/ GLORIOUS resurrection morn"
| Transfers.
The following deeds were admitted TO
record by County Clerk Hook, yester.
/ day:
Deed made September l., 1873, by
/ Rhoda l.. Anderson, widow of James
Anderson, deceased, Jane Anderson,
Rhoda l.. Anderson, Mary 4. Slater and
James L. Slator, her husband, Alex. T.
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