Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-07
FORTY HOURS
Will Open al St Pairick's Church
 TO.Morrow Morning.

blessed sacrament will commence i
 St Patrick's church on Sunday; tn
 feast of the immaculate conceptio
 December 8, at the 10:45 mass. Tn
 mass will be solemn high mass an
 will be sung entirely by St Patrick
 boys sanctuary choir of eighty voices
 There will be confessions Sunday af
 ternoon and evening and Monday af
 ternoon and evening, commencing
 each afternoon at o'clock, from
 until 6 and from 2 in the evening a
 long as there is any one to be heard
 There will be number of strang
 priests present on both days to hea
 confessions. The masses on Sunda,
 will be celebrated at o:30, 7:30,
 and 1O:45. The masses on Monda,
 and Tuesday will be at 5:30, 7:3(
 and 9 o'clock. The devotion will bt
 closed Tuesday morning at the
 o'clock mass.
 The forty hours adoration of the
 blessed sacrament in memory of the
 forty hours during which the sacred l cNNy VI oCouo W do III llc U
 began at Milan about the year 1884
 It soon spread into the other cities
 Of Italy, and in 1851 was introduced
 into Rome, where it was celebrated
 on the first Sunday of every month
 by the Archconfraternity Della
 Trinita dei Pellgrini founded by Saint Philip Neri in 154S, and or
 the third Saturday of every month by the Archconfraternity di s. Maria dell' Arazione.
 By the Apostolic Constitution Graves ct Diuturnae, dated November 25, 1892, Clement VIII provided that the blessed sacrament should be ex- posed for public adoration in continu- ous succession on the altars of certain churches in Rome. He enriched the devotion with special indulgences. On the first Sunday of advent of that year the devotion was commenced in the chapel of the apostoical palace.
 Paul V by the brief cumfelicis re- cordationis. May 10, 1906, confirmed the decree of Clement VIII and estab- lished the devotion in perpetuum. Succeeding pOntiffs issued various rules and directions for the devoton which were collected by order of Clement XI and published January 21, 1705. These are called after him the Instructio Clementina. The h. structiO Clementina was confirmed and promulgated anew by order of Clement XII, September 1, 173O. The instruction has the force of law in the city of Rome; outside of Rome only directive force It belongs to tAe ordinary to describe whether the | instruction is to be followed ex toto or ex parte, but it is highly praise worthy to follow it in detail wherever local circumstances and diocesan laws permit.
 This devotion was first introduced into the diocese of Philadelphia in 1855, by the saintly bishop, Newman next in 1858 into the archdiocese of and finally at the plenary council of Baltimore in 1866 formally approved, confirmed by papal indults for all the dioceses of the United States. The Most Rev P. F. Ken Trick, archbishop of Baltimore, feel ng that not all the rules of the Clem- 'ntine Instruction could be strictly observed had petitioned Plus TX to ,rant some notifications. A rescript lAted December 10, 1857, and ex- ended to all of the dioceses of the Jnited States January "A, 1868, all owed the following concessions:
 (a) That the exposition need not e continued during the night.
 (b) That the procession may be mitted at the prudent discretion f the pastor.
 (c) That the faithful should be ble to gain all the indulgences ranted by the constitution graves ct iuturnae of Clement VIII. I
 l. A plenary indulgence is grant. 1 d to all persons who being truly re- , entant receive the sacraments of I enance and of the eucharist, visit he church in which the blessed sac ament is exposed on one of the three avs of the exposition, and pray for 1e intentions of the sovereign pon- ( if.
 (a) The confession may be iaade nd communion may be received OH le day before the exposition begins, I on the morning before the exposi- I on has actually taken place. b CbD It is not required that the D 'nfession be made or communion c } received in the church in which d le blessed sacrament is exposed. s tc) If communion be received in l, le church of the exposition and dur p g the exposition, this visit will an- A yer for the one prescribed as neces- [, ny to gain the indulgence lt Cd) The visit must be made during c e exposition. O Gel The visit must not necessarily il st one hour a fD lnvalids and those suffering j. om chronic diseases who are cap- n lie of making the required visits to ts e church or of receiving holy con- ci union may be dispensed from one B
 both of these obligations. if. ac- Q; rding to their ability. they perform ii me other work prescribed by the P nfessOr. For the sick and aged in c ligious communities the like ex- lption was granted by Leo XIII ty nuary Is. 1886. ni 2. A partial indulgence of ten b- ars and ten quarantines is granted m ties quOties the church is visited C d short time is spent in prayer 6r Trow for sin with the firm resolve n, going to confession is necessary a, gain this indulgence. pi g. These indulgences are applic- A ie to the souls in purgatory. pr