The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-13

CATHOLIC NEWS.
Three DAYS Thanksgiving
Services at st. Peters
Church.
FEAST OF THE HOLY NAME
ST. Peters College Alumni Assoc
citation Happy Children at
st. Patrick's.
FEAST OF THE HOLY NAME

ST. Peters Church. Grand street, will for
the next three days be the scene of special
services of thanksgiving to God for the
Justification of blessed Rudolph Acquaviva
and his four companions, martyrs of the
Society of Jesus. The Right Reverend
Winand N. Wigger. Bishop of Newark, will
assist at the solemn mass with which the
celebration will begin tomorrow Sunday at
haf-past ten O'Clock, The sermon at this
mass win be delivered by the Right Rever-
end Mgr. Seton, of st. Joseph's Church. At
the solemn vespers in the evening Father
Finnegan, 81, will preach.
The solemn masses on Monday and Tues
day will begin at nine O'clock. The sermon
on Monday evening viii be preached by
Father Charles Mackel, of st. Michaels
Church. On Tuesday evening Father
Harpes, Sd, will preach the closing SER
mon.
During the services Father OCarrolL.
81, will act as master OF ceremonies. The
new Sanctuary Society, consisting of nearly
fifty boys and young men, trained by
Father O'Carroll, will take part in the SER
vices tomorrow. The music will be rem
dered by the amou boy choir of st.
Peters, under the direction of Professor j.
B. Ferry.
The martyrs in whose honor this celebra-
ton is to be held were missionaries of the
Society of Jesus in the sixteenth century.
They were put to death, through hatred to
the faith, by the sayages of the East Indies,
to whom they preached the gospel
Tomorrow feast of the Holy Name of
jesus is the p~atronal feast of the Jesuit
Fathers.
FEAST OF THE HOLY NAME.
The members of the several HolY4Name
Societies Will receive Holy Communion IN a
body tomorrow morning. 1t will be the
feast day of the Holy Name of Jesus. and
for this reason a day of unusual joy to all
those affiliated with the society. The Holy
Name Society was organized to give honor
to the Holy Name of Jesus. The members
pledge themselves to abstain from bias
phemy, and to do all they can to discourage
swearing in others.
INVOKE THE OLY NAME.
The Church advises all Catholics to invoke
the Holy Name in all dangers and tempta-
tions, imparting a plenary indulgence to all
those who pronounce it with a contrlte
heart in their last agony. st. Bernardine OF
Siena and St. john Capistran, both of the
Order of st. Francis, were the great pro-
moteIs Of the devotion of the Holy Name.
They carried with them on their missions a
copy of the monogram of the Holy Name of
Jesus painted on a wooden tablet, where
with they blessed the sick and wrought the
greatest miracles. They recommended to
all the faithful to have the name of Jesus
placed above the entrance of their houses
and the doors of their dwellings as a pro-
lection against the influence of the evil
spirits and a preservation against epidemic
and contagious diseases.
An instance of the miraculous power of
the Holy Name occurred in Rome some
thirty years ago. The cholera was making
ravages, and in the Convent of Ara Coeli
several members of the community had been
carried away by the plague, while others
lay Frustrated with the dire disease. In their
distress the fathers had recourse to the
Holy Name. The tablet painted by st.
Bernardine was solemnly exposed, and a
iridium celebrated to the Holy Name of
jesus for the sake of avefting the mortality.
Crowds of deyout w~o1shippers thronged the
church, and everyone was anxious to obtain
a copyof the Holy Name painted by st.
Bernardine. And it was wonderful to see
that wherever the Holy Name had been
placed above the door of a dwelling the dis
ease disappeared, the sick recovered and no
more deaths occurred.
ST. PETERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
The executive committee of st. Peters
Alumni Association held a meeting at the
College Hall last Wednesday evening. The
object of the meeting was to arrange for a
general meeting of the association on Janu-
airy %, at the College Hall. There is a mis-
lal en- notion that the Alumni Association is
OF. y for gradu ties of the college. This is
wong. Any young man who at any time
atten~, d the college, whether he graduated
or not, is entitled to membership. The ex=
ecutive COMMITTEES, and Father Harpes,
rector of st. Peters, are very anxious that
this should be known. Any. young man,
then, who attended college, will be welcome
at the meeting to be held at the College Hall
on the evening of January 25.
JERSEY CITY CHURCHES.