Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-26
CHURCH oBsERvANcEs-GooD FRIDAY
PASSOVER EASTER.

In numerous churches this is a season Of
profound interest. To-day is Good Friday,
the anniversary of the crucifxion of Christ.
Good Friday is the only day in which a full
mass may not be celebrated in the Catholic
Church. In some countries on this day an
image of Judas Iscariot is dressed up and
treated with many indignities. In many
parts of England the ''hot-cross buns " are
served on this day, custom growing out of
an old superstition that they are preserva-
tives against FIRE and other disasters In this
country the observance of the day is confined
to devout exercises in many churches.
IN THE CHURCHES.
IL st. PauPs Protestant Episcopal Church,
Rev. u. II. Ward, rector, the services to-day
viii be at IL A. ~ and 1880 P NJ At the
morning service the rector will read sermon
on IS Cross-Bearing, and in the evening will
preach from the text, cit is finished" In
the same church on Sunday Easter Day.
there will be full Easter service at II A. NJ.
and 1850 P. N. At the morning service there
will. be celebration of the Eucharist, and
Bishop Wingfield will preach both morning
and evening. The church will be deliberately
decorated with flowers, and the following
music be rendered l,y the choir at the morn
ing service Easter Anthem, Chapple Te
Deum & fat, Baumbach Jubilate Dec,
Mozart; hymn, Jesus Chri.t is Risen To
day" Morgan; hymn, Lift Your Glad
Voices" Dauks offertory solo, Holy
Lord" Schubert. st the evening service {:
Gloria in Excelsis, Won Weber; Cantata
Domino, Mosenthal Benedic Amina, Dauks /;
hymn, Christ, the Lord, is Risen" Mozart /;
hymn" Come, See the Place, etc, Dauks /;
oifertory solo.
At the German Lutheran Church, Rev.
Charles Taubner, D. D., pastor, Good Fri
day viii be celebrated as holy day. The
services will be conducted by the pastor, who
will take his text from The Passion of Our
Lord" Tomorrow Saturday there will be
preparation for Easter and the Lords Sup
per-" The text will be from [. Corinthians,
18th chapter, 2Sth verse. Easter Sunday is
by the Lutherans recognized as one of the
greatest festivals of the church, and it will
be celebrated By service aud preaching from
the text ST. Mark, 10Th chapter, 18th verse,
after which the 50 Lords Supper viii be adj
ministered, at which the class of newly-con-
frmed children will receive their first COM
munion.
At st. Roses Catholic Church, Rev. P.
Seaman pastor, services will be held at s A.
N. and 1880 P NJ. At the first service the
mass of the Presanctified will be celebrated
At the latter, the Stations of the Cross !"
and a sermon on THE Passion" There
viii then be taken a collection for the custom
airy uses. Tomorrow Holy Saturday. there
will be service at s A. NJ, when the ceremony
of Blessing of the Fire, the Paschal Canale
and the Baptismal Font will take place and
mass will be celebrated Sunday EASTER
masses will be celebrated at ESQ, and 1890
A. NJ. At the last service select choir will
be in attendance and take part in the SER
vices with specially selected music. There
will also be preached a sermon, subject
The Resurrection" At each of the masses
on Sunday collection will be taken up for
the poor.
Yesterday being Holy Thursday masses
were celebrated in ST. Rose Church at $50,
and 1890 A. NJ. At the 1880 the services
consisted of the Procession of the Blessed
Sacrament to the Alter of the Repository"
and at s o'clock 200 boys and girls from the
Christian Brothers College and st. Joseph's
Convent received the Holy Communion. 1t
was also the anniversary of the Feast of the
Annunciation.
THE PASSOVER.
Contemporaneous with the Holy Week OBJ
seryancs in other churches, there begins with
those of the Israelitish faith this evening
Pesach, the Feast of the Passover, or feast
of unleavened bread, commemorative of the
departure from Egypt. The feast lasts seven
days. Ga these days unleavered bread or
matzos supplants the ordinary kind. The
services in the synagogues during this season
teach that God is the only Savior, and COM
memorate the transition OF nature from win
ter to spring, and in accordance with tradi-
ton it is Feast of Resurrection. In the
Sixth Street Synagogue, Rev. S. Gerstman,
Rabbi, services begin at $3.50 P. II. to-day, and
from Exodus 1871. Sunday the services be-
gin at 10 A. NJ. sermon, Passover and Re-
surrection, texts, Deub 1911, Ezekiel 37:l,
10 The first and seventh days of the feast
are observed as days of holy convocation, and
the others are days of labor and special wor-
shin