The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-29

Forty hours of devotion Will be ceie-
brated in st. Bridget's Church, beginning
on Sunday with a solemn high mass.
Following is the musical programme
Prelude .......... Handel
kyle. $500 .....-. ...B. y. Klsin
Glorla.:-. ..+..-.t .s..sR $500
Credo..... $50, III. hays
~anctus...... ...-... .-.t..--...-.b -. hieih
Agnus Del. y. hielh
TIE Grand and Chancel Chorus
The quartette-soprano. Miss Bradley;
contralto, Miss Lawless; tenor. Mr..
Nolan; basso. Mr.. Flesey-will be as
sisted by a chorus of forty mixed voices
and thirty ehancel boys, under the di-
rection of Miss X. E.. Powers, organist.
The member of st. Bridget's Lyceum
will hold an informal reception on Febru-
airy IS in the school hall on Mercer street.
The tickets for this affair are limited to
will include upper. The young men are
row rehearsing for a play, How TO fame
Your Mother-in-Law,' and Will pc pre-
scented on Easter Monday evening.
ST. PatrIck,s.
At ST. Patrick's r. C. Church tomorrow
evening the Rev. Father Sheehan of
Newark will lecture on the "Origin of
Catholicity.' Father Sheehan has pre-
pared a very interesting lecture and
should please the congregation, as it will
no doubt be well delivered. as Father
Sheehan is a well NOW orator. Father
Monahan of st. Patrick's will go to New
ark and take Father S~heehan's place
while he is in this city. Previous 70 the
Mrs. Quinn, the organist, also a NUMBER
of specially prepared selections Will pc
rendered by the choir. ou.,
The mission at st. Patrick's will begin
-, Snn1ax- ENnhrl1 ryEl LE The ah0QeI1D-
torist Fathers of New York will pc pres
ent. The first week will be for women
and the following week for the men OF the
parish.
ST. Pau1,s, GreenvilIe.
The resolution passed by st. Pauls
Catholic Club at he meeting last Iues-
day calling for the meeting to be held on
the first and third Tuesdays instead OF the
second and fourth, will bring the next
meeting on February /. The committees
in charge of the euchre and pool Iourna+
for holding them. An informal enlertain-
ment will be given after the progressive
e,1chre party, and there will also be dane
ing.
ST. Peter's.
The mission for the men, that mas peen
in progress all this week at St. Peter 5
cn,irch will come to q close tomorrow
evening. The missionaries have done d
great deal of work during tue W. ao+aJ
fhey have been here, and 1t IS eApecleu
that there will be a number OF converts
through their efforts. coa.1i+x
The Young Men and Ladies. Sodanty
will meet next Tuesday evening IN the up
per part of the church. n,a
There will be a meeting. OF the 1ouiS
mems Lvceum next Tuesday evening III
their ciubroomS on York street.
From Everywhere.
Throughout the age of Christianity only
eleven Popes nave attained a pontiflcate
of twenty years. These are:-st. Peter
(34-60. st. Sylvester I. (314-S3D, st. Leo the
Great (4o-46D, Adrian 1. G95-Sl6), st. Leo
III. G95-s16), Alexander III. Ql59-llSp' or-
ban VIII. ds23-1s4D, Clement Al. Cruz
1721). Plus vi. d775-17s9, Pius VII. QSoo-
1929. Plus TX. ds46-1s7s). On February ~
1898. if it pleases God, we shall be able 10
count our Holy Father, Leo KILL, as rhe
twelfth. The number of Popes VINO eele-
brated the sixtieth anniversary OF thelf
priesthood is far smaller, the iasl pi
Them being Benedict XIV. But through
ont ali these nineteen centuries no case
is found of a Pope whose pontlncaIe IN
cIrded these two dates; the hrst, II roy
idence spares him, will be the relghihs
Pontiff,