The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-17
POLYNICE OIL

selves at the different sports that cam be
found on the inside.
The bowling team of the Lyceum is
composed Of strong players and some
very high averages have been made by
the members.
st. Rridget's.
AS the date draws near for the charity
euchre to be given by the members of the
different societies connected with st.
Bridget's Church. the prizes are beginning
to pile up from a large number of gener-
Gus persons throughout the city, and it is
expected that fully fifty prizes will be
warded. The euchre promises to excel
any ever held in this city before, for such
a good purpose. and many a poor family
in the city will be made happy at the be-
ginning of the new year.
Tt will be held at st. Bridget's Hall. No.
1871 Mercer street. Wednesday evening,
December IS. There is plenty of time yet
to help this good cause along to make q
donation. which will be received at St.
aBridgets rectory on Montgomery street.
st. Peters.
Within a month the large and spacious
hall of St. Peters Lyceum will be com
pleted and ready for occupancy. and there
will OC 6ttdt IANJO4ttAio d1iAOli6 lliC Nii
beers of the organization. and also the
young people of the parish. The Irst
event to take place in the new building
will be a fair given by the ladies of the
parish, and it is expected that there viii
be at least twenty-five booths filed with
good things to select from.
The fair will continue one week.. and
the ladies intend to make the receipts
reach the 5000 mark. The money will
go towards clearing the debt on the new
school building and hail. which cost $50.
060. The Rev. Fathers HarpeS and HAIR
lin, through whose hard work the build
ingS were erected, intend to make the dlf-
ferent societies connected with the chureh
clear the debt by holding entertainments
and receptions in the new hall.
from Everywhere.
The burial of a Trappist is a peculiar
and solemn ceremony. Immediately after
the monk is dead the body, dressed in the
monastic robe, is stretched on a simple
board, the head covered with a cow
and then taken to the monastery chapel.
There the body remains until the day of
interment, four yellow wax candles burn
ing all the time, and all the monks in
turn reciting the prayers Of the liturgy,
Light d4A0 t%1 ~ OL i1+ Icy
the prayers for the dead and a requiem
mass are chanted, after which the monks
form in procession to follow their brother
to his last resting place. During the
funeral procession psalms are chanted in
the mournful tones peculiar to the Trap
pist order.
When the cemetery is reached more
prayers are reeited and then the body
is slowly lowered into the grave, not in
a coffin, but simply dressed in the mon
astic robe worn during life. A monk then
goes down into the grave to cover his
lead brothers face with a cowl, after
which the officiating priest slowly throws
a shovelful of earth over the body, Two
other monks do the same and then he
grave is filed up in the ordinary way.
After the burial the procession returns
to the chapel in the same order. !,
The Trappist cemetery IS always paced
in the interior yard of the monastery. SO
that the Head may always be IN view
OF the living, and as soon as the monk
Is buried another grave next to the one
lust filled is at once partially dug up,
thai each may see the place where ne
NAV possibly be laid before long.