The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09
doubtful if he win ever return to Green
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st. Johns.
The ceremonies of Holy Week were
celebrated on a most elaborate scale
in st. Johns Church. For the first
time in the history of the parish Father
Ter Woert has had the opportunity to
fitting surroundings. Everything in the
old church was of a makeshift nature,
But this year an was changed. For in
stance, on Holy Thursday the repository
was a beautiful light. Lilies were banked
up from the floor of the sanctuary to the
dome of the side altar and innumerable
candles shed their light upon the scene.
The surroundings of the repository were
all in keeping. with extraordinary event
which called for the decoration Altar
boys were in constant alteration and q
continual procession of people from all
over the city passed through the church.
At the mass of the p~re-sanctihed yester-
day morning the church was well filled
as also in the evening, when Father Moi
10y preached the sermon on the Passion:
which was followed by the ceremony OF
the alteration of the cross. This morning
the services commenced at seven O'Clock,
with the blessing of the new fire and the
five grains of incense in the vestibule
of the church., after which ta5 PaschaI
candle was blessed. as also the holy wa
ter. The Easter holy water was, as in
the past, in great demand. After this
blessing of the water the further blessing
which enables the priest to use the water
for baptismal purposes was gone through
by pouring upon it the holy oils. which
have been guarded from Holy Thursday.
as also the Holy Chrism, and then the two
oils together in the water in the form of
a cross, typifying the power of the three
| persons of the Blessed Trinity This
evening confession will be heard to en-
able those who desire to specially cele-
brate the feast of Easter.
In another column the full programme
of the special music for Easter Sunday
will be ound. 1t will be much more elab-
crate than heretofore, and Father Ter
Woert has spared nothing to make this
Easter morning outshine its predecessors.
/, The decorations of the church will be
| cured in large quantities to aid in beau
tifying the ediice. The masses will be
at six, half-past seven, nine and half-past
ten o'clock. The last mass viii be a SOL
epan high mass. ending with Benediction
of the Blessed Sacrament. There will be
The Catholic Club will begin to, hustle
| now that Lent is over.
Candidates for the Young Ladies' So
dality will do well to call upon Fathery
the membership.
The Rose and the Shamrock is the
subject of rehearsal by the young men.
| 1t will be produced early in May.
st. Paul of tho Gross.
The lecture which Charles Austin Adams
was to have delivered on Wednesday on
Napoleon" for the benefit of the Church
of St. Paul of the Cross. has been post
of Holy Week.
hi parochial school of ST. Paul of the
Gross parish is in q fourishing condition.
1t now has 400 pupils.
The pretty comic opera, "H. N. S. Pima
fore, Will be produces under the aus
pices of ST. Paul of the Cross Church, at
| Prasser's Central Hall. on the evening OF
! April 10. The cast is composed of WE'LL
I known amateur talent, and the presenta-
ton Of the opera promises to be one Of
the leading social events of the season in
the Hudson City section of the Heights.
The cast is as follows:-Ralph Rackstraw,
Sheridan; Sir Joseph Porter, Joseph A.
| Smith; Dick Deadeye. Frank Dale; Boat
swain; Nat Hicks; Josephine. Mrs. A.
Scheller: Buttercup, Miss Kathryn Hart.
Hebe, Miss A. Gallagher.
Members of the Mozart Choral Union Of
West Hoboken and members of the
up the chorus. The orchestra will be
under the direction of Louis ]. Dittmar,
and the singing under the direction OF
Paul of the Cross Church.. Nj. Joseph A.
Smith win superintend the general prof.
duction.
Fro Everywhere.
One of the s~trangest links with Is
past which can be found in ScotlsS$s
supplied by the obscure village OF Forta
ingal, in Perthshire, which Tradition
points out as the birthplace of Pontius
PLATE Fortingall lies a beautiful and
miles west of Abereidy, in a District
rich in memories of Fingal. Wallace anu
Bruce, says 'Lloyd's Weekly, Near the
village are the remains of a Roman camp.
where, at the beginning of the CHRISTIAN
era, the soldiers of the Empire were post
ed to guard the passage from the Highs
ment is probably not earlier than the time
of Agricola, and before 1T was made tbs
Scottish King Metallanus held his court
in Fortingall, n received an embassy
from Augustus. m of the Ambassa-
doris. we are told, was the father OF
Pontius PLATE, and here the future
Governor of Judea is said to have been
born shortly before the nativity of our
Saviour. The Embassy of Metallanus is
sufficiently well authenticated in the fol-
lowing passage from Hollinshed. 1t was
1have been pursuing a scheme for uni-
versal peace by means of a sort OF early
concert of Europe.
Ambassadors came from Augustus to
! Cymbeline, King of Britain. exhortine
him to keep his subjects in peace with
all their neighbors. with the whole
Augustus, was now in quiet. without all
wars or troublesome tumults. These ann
bassadors went also unto Metalfanus,
the King of the Scottishmen. exhorting
him to acknowledge a superioritie in the
Romano Emperour. unto whom the peo-
pie inhabiting the farthest parts of
the east had sent their ambassadors
with rich jewels to present to his per-
son withal. Wherwith Metailanus, being
/ partlie mooved to have a friendlie am
lite with the Romanes, he sent into
Z TAOIlG l 4O Lie
and to the gods in the capitol in signe
of honour, by which means he obteined
an amitie with the Romanes, which con-
tinued betwixt them and his kingdome
for a long time after. Thus a general
peace was then reigning throughout the
whole world. it pleased the Oliver and
Authour of all peace to be borne at the
same time of that blessed Virgin Marie.
in the cite of Bethlehem in the tribe OF
! Juda. which most blessed and salutifer-
GUS birth did come to pass in the 18th
year of his reign eMetallanus) and in
the 42d of Augustus his empire"
AS the old historians record, Pilates
later years were clouded by misfortunes.
and. like Ovid. he was sent into exile
soon after writing that famous epistle
to Tiberius, which is alleged to exist TO
this day in the depths of the Vatican
in Dauphine, about 80 "A. D.. or. as Cas-
siodurus says: overwhelmed by grievous
misfortunes, he turned his hand against
himself and took away his own wicked
life."
TIL Oldest cardinal is Teodolfo Mertel,
who was born at Allumiere, near Civita
Vecchia, on February 9, 1865. Though he
is paralyzed on one side of his body. he
still attends to most of the duties of his
When Leo XIII visited England in 1916
he spoke q little English, but it Is said
that he now never attempts more than
the words ..sit down. In addressing Eng
lish visitors to the Vatican.
BROKE THE BOULEVARD LAWS.
A,,a,tst Miller. of No. ~ Secaucus Road,