The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-11

onyx columns, with the Greek letters,
Tipas senasiqor so Ir5eTs tb ~ o posa Te i Ee,,t
is supported by -four onyx columns, and
the background is of marble tracery, in
laid with onyx, The top Of the altar is
capped out with an octagon, supported
With light onyx columns. =
At the conservation tomorrow there will
me a number Of visiting clergy from New
York and New Jersey.
There will be special music by st.
Lucy's choir, and in the evening there
will be vespers and a sermon preached
by Rev. James Il. Brown.
parish netted the sum of 1000 for the aid
of the Sisters convent home on Fiji
teenth street.
81. Patrfckss.
The members of st. Patrick's Club are
very much pleased over the election Of
Father l.. NJ. c. Carroll as President of
the club. The new set of officers will
take charge of the clubs affairs by the
first of the month. In the meantime,
Father Carroll will appoint a new Board
OF Directors. With a new set of hustllnS
officers. under the direction of Father
Carroll, the club is bound to progress and
will soon be second to none in the city.
Arrangements are now being made for
and Entertainment and reception which
are to be held in a week or so.
ST. Jofsn's.
The reception of new members into the
AL III IA / Asial1 oi
Wednesday night, the feast of the I'm
maculate Conception, was very impress
stve. Father Mcdonnell Of st. Mary's.
'Woert presided at the ceremonies attend
ing the reception. which included a pro-
cession through the church.
will go to Holy Communion in a body to-
morrow morning at the half-past seven
o'clock mass.
Little bits of work, scarcely noticeable,
but all important, are being done daily,
in the new church. The statues on the
B. V. M. and Sacred Heart affairs are now
in position and look very handsome.
81. Atoysius.
Father Sullivan. of st. Aloysius' r. C.
Church, on West Side avenue. will give a
reception Monday evening in Fraternity
Hall, on West Side avenue, to the young
ladies who assisted in making the fair
great success. Father Sullivan has ar
ranged to give the young folk IN excel
lent time. Supper will be served.
The work on the new parish building or
West Side venue is not progressing as
rapidly as was expected. The larger part
Of the roof is on, but it is thought that
the building will not be completed be-
fore February.
SO. Paul,s. GreenviIle.
The regular bi-monthly meeting of the
st. Pauls Catholic Club will be held next
Tuesday evening. The meeting promises
to be an interesting one, as the election
OF OIilCerS lOr the ensuing year VIII take
place. Nominations will also take place
the same night. Arrangements for the
giving of another play Will also be made
The fair which has been in progress for
the, last two weeks in the parish hall, on
Old Bergen Road, will close this evening,
after q very successful existence. The
majority of the donations have been dis
posed of, but those left over this even
ing will be auctioned off.
The proceeds will so toward the church
fund.
Our Lady of Grace, Hoboken.
The Christmas services in the Church
of Our Lady of Grace, Hoboken,. promise
to be among the finest ever held in Hobo
ken. Tn Rev. Father Kelly is hard at
work preparing the programme.
From Everywhere.
1t is reported from Berlin that the Right
Rev. Mgr. Joseph Schroeder, late of the
olic Academy at Muenster, Westphalia.
Next Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
Tomorrow is the third Sunday of Ad-
vent.
There are three hundred and sixty five
churches in Rome.
There is a strong movement among the
priests of New York City who have par
ochial schools attached to the parishes,
Board Of Regents. The state superiyntene
dent of Public instruction in New York
has heretofore buried the p%arochial
SCHOOLS uIQ6f the nedQ OF |OJner SCHOOLS
and 1t IS claimed that owing to the large
number of pupils attending the parochial
schools they should be distinctly classi-
fed as such in the census returns which
are now being tabulated. If the p~arochial
schools We're registered with the Board of
Regents the scholars would be permitted
to enter the law and medical institutions
of New York, from which they are now
debarred on account of their inability to
pass the Regents examination, which is
necessary to comply with the law.
A class in elocution and DelSarte was
formed last night in st. Aloysius' Acad-
envy, under the auspices of the Young
Womanss Association. There was a large
attendance, and the class started with en-
thusiastic members, all determined to
markedly short time. Miss Dalton is
teacher.
Efforts are being made by the Church
of Rome to heal the schism between it.
self and the Coptic Church, which has
existed for more than a thousand years.
Coptic Church is descended from
ancient Egyptian Christianity, and is now
dwindling away before the advance of
Mohammedanism. To rescue what is left
funds are raising throughout Europe to
found a seminary at Alexandria for the
education of the Levites of the Coptic
rite. The head of the movement is placed
in Belgium for political reasons, this head
being the Archbishop of Malines. A for
mer Vicar Apostolic in the Soudan has
just left Rome for Alexandria, and upon
his arrival a council of Coptic leaders is
to be held. 1t is said that the schism is
now, under the pressure of Mohammedan-
ism, about to be healed and the Church to
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