The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-28
A Huge Army of Children
Receiving Spiritual
and Secular Edu-
cation.
DEVOTION OF THE TEACHERS
Facts Regarding st. Peters st.
Patrick's, and st. Dominic's
Parish Instituti0ns-The
Catholic Institute.


tude and far-reaching influence of the
Roman Catholic Church. there are few
who realize to what extent this power
exerts itself in the school. The policy of
the church is TO make understanding g
believers in its doctrines, and for that
reason every Roman Catholic must pass
through certain powerful educational in
huences before he can be said to be in
every Sense "a good Catholic" There are
several marked differences between
Roman Catholic and Protestant Sunday
schools, in fact, SO many and so marked
that the subject demands special treat
ment in the discussion OF the c1ty's SAB
bath classes. In the first there is the
scale upon which operations are con-
iucted The number of children in
Roman Catholic Sunday schools in this
city alone is not computed by hundreds
but by thousands, ans from these every
year hundreds enter the church. to con-
tlnue their religious education long after
their first communion. Then the teachers
are selected either from the various
orders, or from the priests in charge. and
the instruction is purely doctrlnal. A
record of few of the larger schools 1ol-
lows, from which the character and ex-
tent of the work may be estlmased:-
AT THE CATHOLIC INSTITUTE.
About $50 children receive instruction
every Sunday afternoon in the Catholic
Institute on Third street. or this num-
ber 450 boys and young men are taught
ou the main floor ny the Christian
Brothers, whose home is on Third street
and 500 girls receive instruction upstairs
from the Sisters Of Charity whose
academy is located in Jersey avenue. The
female department is conducted by Sister
Sarah Agnes, and twenty-five sisters
teach as many classes, which are formed
according to the ability of the children.
There are thirteen divisions in the male
department.. Brother DioDysius is in
charge of the music, and the children
sing In concert with excellent tune and
time. The scholars assemble at half-past
two and at the conclusion pass to after
noon service at st. Mary's Church on
Second street. On the eve of the feast OF
Ascension, May 26. there will be con-
frmation in the church. and fully $50
girls and as many boys will receive their
first communion The children will as
sem BILE in the school building at about
half-past eight in the morning and pass
to the church in procession at nine
o'clock, the girls in white and yelled, and
the boys in their best suits of black, to re-
celve their first communion. In the even
ing at half-past seven Bishop Wieger will
administer the sacrament of confirmation.
--a PARecaIAB scHooI's GOOD WORK. -
The parochial school on Third street
next to the Catholic Institute is also un-
u6F lub CuhI Sc VI bL6 SALlSbldH
The building is large and well appointed,
with spacious classrooms and play
grounds, and furnished with every mod
ern appliance for facility in study. In
all the departments there are now about
one thousand four hundred young people,
whose education, mental, moral and
spiritual is conducted entirely by the
Brothers. In the lower classes the regu-
lar common school branches are taught,
and in the higher, mensuration, algebra,
geometry. composition, letter writing,
bookkeeping and literature. The hours
are from half-past eight to half-pasJ
eleven q. m. and half-past one to half-past
three p. m. Brother Albian Fabre is in
charge, aud the teachers are:-First class,
Brother Patrick; second, Brother Dionvs-
ius; third. Brother Andrew; fourth,
Brother Christopher; fifth, Brother
Irwin and sixth. Brother Paullien.
There is of course, systematic doctrinal
instruction in which the text books pre-
pared for the use of the Christian Broth
ers are used, beginning with the Gate
chism of Christian Doctrine" The
student must be perfectly familiar
with this manual which is ar
ranged for younger children; be-
When he knows the work from cover to
cover, he may receive his first commun-
ion, and progress to the "Catechism of
the Catholic Religion" which is the
second step in his religious education.
Then follow "A Full Catechism of the
Catholic Religion" and "rhe Duties
of Christians Toward God," each more
difficult than the last, as BELTS the pupils
advancing age, until the last period OF re-
ligious instruction is passed in the study
of "A Catechism of the Christian Re
ligion." Until this work or its equivalent
has been mastered, the religious educa-
tion of good Catholic is incomplete.
10 al n nurfI1 ant fnn,f fhaao ot n
OF vocal and instrumental music. over
which Brother Dionysius Is i'll charge.
Pupils receive instruction on the piano,
violin and organ, The Academy Of the
Sisters of Charity on Jersey avenue, also
carries on great educational work, and
many young ladies of high social position
and undoubted mplishments look
back to it with fondness as their alma
mater.
TAUGHT BY THE SISTERS OF ST. DOMINIC.
Nearly two hundred children receive
religious instruction every Sunday after
boon from the Sisters of st. Dominic at
the school on First street next to the con-
vent. OF this number eighty are from st.
Dominic's Academy, and 210 from St.
Boniface'S Parochial School, both of
which are under the charge of the Sis
ters. The order is one of the largest and
most Influential in the church, founded
in Europe in the thirteenth century; the
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Second street. New YORK. The convent
on First street was built thirteen years
ago, in which time the Sisters have ac.
wonderful amount of good
work. both spiritual aud temporal. In
the Sunday school there are nine teachers,
four from the academy and five from the
parochial school, and instruction contin-
ues from quarter after two to three
o'clock p. m, after which the children at
tend service at the parish church next
door TO the convent.
AT st. Bridget's Church on Montgomery
street eleven hundred children are in
structed in the principles OF the Catholic
faith every Sunday afternoon from two
until three. Fifteen Sisters of Charity
conduct the divisions composed of girls
and five Fran ciscan Brothers teach classes
Of boys. The children proceed from the
school TO the afternoon service in the |
church. There will be no confirmation |
this year, but on the 10Th Of June Bishop |
Wigger will visit the church for the pur-
pose of laying the cornerstone of the new |
Young Mems Catholic Association build |
ng, opposite the church and school,
ST. PETERS COLLEGE.
st. Peters Church, Grand street, fur |
lishes religious instruction to about 1,050 |
children everv Sunday afternoon at two |
o'clock. OF these 700 are preparing for
while the remaining $50, the |
'Catechism of Persev everance," !" is composed |
If those who have already received their |
irst communion, but who return every