The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-12
ST. ANTEONY's SHRINE
Special Programme of Services for
the Summer Months Arranged.
.Snecinl to the .Jerseu 9th Ncacs.

SpecE&A EfoSrEnfEue Oh SERVICES hOf
the summer Months Arranged.
Special to the Jersey CITY Meas
BUTLER. May u, 1S94.-Since the opening
here If the shrine dedicated to st. Anthony
of Padua, the popular saint Of the Francis
can order, large numbers of pilgrims from
Jersey City, Newark and Paterson, and
from the surrounding country towns have
visited the little stone church of the Francis
can Fathers, and no doubt the number of
pious pilgrims will be doubled during the
coming season. The Right Rev. W. N.
Wigger, Bishop Of Newark, to whose diocese
Butler belongs, favored the enterprise from
its very beginning, and His Holiness, Pope
Leo XIII, not only sent an apostolic bless
ing for the good work, but on March 25 of
this year a number of granted special favors
to the shrine. Following is the special pro-
grannme for the summer of 1884,
Wednesday, May 80, Memorial Day-At
1870 A. NJ, dedication of the new pipe organ
and solemn high mass, Very Rev. Monsignor
J. Schroeder, D. d. Of the Catholic Univer-
sity at Washington, officiating. At2 P. M,
May procession through the grove.
Sunday, June IL, feast OF st. Anthony,
transferred from June 13-At 1890 A. NJ,
pontifcal high mass, Rt. Rev. II. Gabriels,
D. D., Bishop of Ogdensburg, N. Y, ~officiat-
ing. Sermon by Rev. P. A. Dinahan, @. P,
of st. Vincent Ferrer's Church, New York.
Wednesday, July AT 1890 A. N. solemn
high mass and blessing of q large oil painting
representing tho saint with the Divine In
artist, L. Meyer, in Frankfort, Germany.
Very Rev. L. Beck, o. S. F. of st. Francis
Co., New York, officiating. The oil
painting is the gift of a number of priests in
Europe.
Sunday, August 5. feast of Porziuncula,
transferred from August AT 1920 A. NJ.
solemn high mass by the Rev. Bonaventure
jain, o. S. F., commissary of st. Benaven-
lures Monastery, Paterson.
Wednesday, August Is, feast Of the As
sumption-At 1880 A. NJ, pontifical high
mass and dedication of the church by his
Grace, Most Rev. +. Satolli, Apostolic Dele
gate. Sermon by a k~edemptorist Father
from Saratoga Springs. On the same day
occurs the birthday of st. Anthony. Al
though it is not customary in the Catholic
Church to celebrate the natal day of the
saints except that of tho Blessed Virgin and
st. John the Baptist, still it has been thought
well to use the occasion of the jubilee year of
the seventh century of the saints birth as a
proper opportunity for p~ropagating more
and more the veneratIon Of the great thaum-
atrug of Padua, and for this reason, besides
the usual Tuesday devotions observed at the
shrine, special ~survices will be held every
Sunday afternoon from August Is, 1894, till
August Is, 1885. On August IA solemn YES
pers viii be chanted at eight P. M. and at
nine P. NJ. the church will be Illuminated by
700 lights, while from the lofty tower the
Butler Silver Cornet Music Corps will play
the air Of tho celebrated ssResponsorium," all
the church bells pealing forth the festal cole
bration.
Monday, September s, Labor Day-At
1890 a. NJ, solemn high mass for all bene-
factors. the Rev. T. A. Wallace, Chancellor
of the Newark diocese, officiating.
Sunday, October Z, Feast Of St. Francis,
transferred from October AT 1880 A. NJ,
solemn high mass by the Very Rev. Charles
A. Bissanf, O.zS. F., conmissary of the Holy
Land, officiating. Sermon by the Rev. j.. J.
Tigha of Bponton.