Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-16
HOLY WEEK SERVICES.
Tho Blessing Of the Oils at the
Cathedral Yesterday.
This is Good Friday-Tho Services
in the Catholic Churches, ana
Their Significance - The Kings
Daughters Entertainment Last
NIGHT - Easter Musical Pro-
grammes-Other Religious Mat


This morning the services at the Ca
thedral will commence at half-past
eight o'clock. The services are very
solemn and of a melancholy character.
The altar is stripped of its ornaments,
the bells are silent, the vestments Of
mourning are worn in the sanctuary, all
indicate the anniversary Of some great
sorrow. The morning service is diyid-
ed into four parts: the lessons, the
prayers. unwilling and yeneration of the
cross, The mass Of the presanctified.
Before mounting the altar steps the
priests pray, PROSTATE with their faces
on the earth. The Inundated position
recalls the first act of the great drama
of the Divine Passion. The church then
places before the eyes Of her children
the history Of the great victim or the
human race according 10 the Gospel Oh
ST John. The prophecies, which are
read first announced long in advance
the sufferings, humiliations of the Man
God, Exodus prefgures in sacrifices oil
the old law, the different circumstances
of His death; then the gospel gives the
simple and sublime story OF that bloody
immolation. After the chanting Of the
Passion, the church prostrdtes herself
Ct the foot of the cross and prays for
the needs of her numerous family. Not
one class is forgotten in these sublime
prayers The gradual unwilling OF the
cross is a beautiful ceremony. After
this the Blessed Sacrament, kept since
Thursday at the repository, is carried
in procession 10 the altar, where mass
of the presanctified is celebrated.
The three hours agony commemorate
ing the three hours which the Savior
hung on the cross, commences at noon
and continues to three o'clock. 1t con-
sists in meditations, short discourses
and beautiful prayers. The Tenebrae
will take place at 1880 o'clock IN the
evening. No sermon will be preached
at this service.
The repository, at the altar on the
north side of the church is very beauti-
full being one forest of natural plants
and flowers. This will be removed this
afternoon. Tomorrow the solemn
blessings commence at eight O'Clock.
The services at the Cathedral yester-
day were of a very interesting character,
and were the occasion for the presence
here of nearly all the priests in this sec
ton Of the diocese of Wheeling. The
edifice was crowded from ten o'clock
until past the noon hour.
Pontifcal mass was celebrated by the
Rt Rev. Bishop DOnahue, and the cere-
mony of blessing the oils took place.
The assisting priets were:
Arch priest, Very Rev Daniel O'Con-
ner, of Clarksburg.
DeacoDs OF the throne, Rev. Joseph
Mullen, of the Church OF the immacu-
late Conception, and Rev. Z. NJ. Hickey,
the eloquent rector Of ST. Xavier
Church, Parkersburg.
Deacon of the mass, Rev. John Nc
Eligott. Of Grafton; sub-deacon OF the
mass. Rev. Robert E. O'Kane, or
Moundsville.
Deacon of the oils, Rev. Joseph Klu-
ser. of Mt. de Chantal; sub-deacon OF
the oils, Rev. Gregory Pendergast, OF
Fairmont.
Chanters. Rev. A. Boutlou, Of the Ca
thedral. and Rev. Joseph Gormley.
Assistant priests of the oils, Rev.
Fathers H. P. McMenamin, Of Ben
wood. Patrick Boyce, Of Rowlesburg, /.
P. Paquin, of Elm Grove, John Mcbride,
of Weston. Thomas Quirk, Of Sand
Fork. J. B. Bauer, of st. Joseph's, Mar
Gus Haas, o. NJ. Cap, and John DAILY,
of Wheeling.
Masters of ceremonies, Rev. o. II.
Move and Rev. r. F. Harris.