Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-11
SOLEMN DAYS OF LENT TO BE
USHERED IN
MANY DENOMINATIONS TO HOLD
HOLY WEEK SERVICES
Different Churches Conduct Exercises
In Celebration Of Completion of
Old and Beginning Of
New Law

season, to continue with special SER
vices until Easter. In the Catholic
and Episcopal churches especially will
holy week be observed, while among
the Protestant churches many services
will be held. The feast of the Pass
over will be observed by the Jewish
congregations.
Among the Catholics palms will be
blessed and distributed at the masses
tomorrow, while in the larger services
the Passion will be sung.
AT the Cathedral of st. Vibiana
Bishop Conaty will bless the palms at
10 o'clock, followed by procession and
Solemn high mass. The Passion will
be sung by Fathers Dillon, Conaty and
Brady. Father Arnoldis will be the
celebrant, Father Dillon deacon and
Father McManus sub-deacon. There
will be no sermon at the mass. Bishop
Conaty will preach at the evening SER
vice.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
evenings, at the cathedral, will be OBJ
served the office of tenebrae. Thurs
day evening there will be a sermon on
1.-THE Holy Eucharist" and on Friday
evening Bishop Conaty will preach on
the Passion. Saturday afternoon ano
evening confessions will be held.
Bishop Conaty will celebrate pom
tifical mass Thursday morning at !
o'clock, at which he Will bless the holy
oils. After this will be the procession
to the altar of repose. where Tn, .ne
blessed sacrament will be exposed until!
Friday. The mass of the presanctified
will be held Friday at o'clock, fol-
lowed by alteration of the cross. sta
lions of the cross will be held at
d. m. Saturday morning the candles
and baptismal font will be blessed at
o'clock.
To Hold Special Services
In all the Catholic churches solemn
masses will be held Thursday, followed
by alteration and mass of the pre-
sanctified on Friday. Services at ST
Vincent's, st. Josephss and the Plaza
churches will be especially elaborate
Services will be held each morning
at o'clock and evening at the Holy
Cross church. Rev. j. j. Sheehy OF
Monrovia will preach at the service
tomorrow evening.
HOLY communion will be celebrated
each morning at 1880 and 10 o'clock at
st. Paurs pro-cathedral and services
each evening, under the charge of DR..
]. ]. Wilkins, dean and rector. Good
Friday the usual three hours service
will be held, beginning at 10 O'Clock
in charge of Bishop Johnson; In the
Story of the Crucifixion" for the first
time In Los Angeles.
Holy week services will be held at
Christ church Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons at A o'clock and Wednes-
day and Friday nights. Thursday
evening there will be a celebration OF
holy communion in commemoration OF
the institution of the Lords supper
Friday the three hours service will be
held from IL to 3 o'clock, In charge oil
Rev. Baker p. Lee. In the evening
the choir will sing Steiner's Cruel
fixion." Saturday afternoon infants
will be baptized at o'clock. Easter
Sunday afternoon the Sunday school
festival will be held and in the even
ing the juvenile choir will render
cantata.
VIII Continue Passiontlde
The Passiontide services held the
past week at the First Congregational
church will be continued the coming
week. to conclude Good Friday even
ing. The services are held at $3.50 and
7:45 D. M, In charge of Rev. William
morning DR.. Day will preach a Palm
Sunday sermon on "A Childlike
Spirit" In the evening "a Notice OF
Election viii be the topic. mems
mass meeting will be held at the
church at $3.50 o'clock, under the aus
DlCeS OF the l.. M. ~. IA. <AltCl tiiC
evening sermon the boys and girls OF
the pastors classes will receive the
books as prizes for the best examina-
lions. These two classes have been
held the past two months A musical
and conservation service will be held
Friday evening and on Easter Sunday
twilight communion will be celebrated
at o'clock.
Rev. Alfred Inwood, pastor of the
Boyle Heights Methodist church, has
been holding pre- Easter services at
that church during the week, to con-
tinue the coming week. Tomorrow
evening Rev. Mr.. Inwood will preach
on "A Message of Life and Death"
Next Wednesday evening the feast of
the Passover will be observed. An
early service will be held at p. m. at
the Temple B'nai Birth, followed by
religious services in the homes. The
service will be continued Thursday at
10 a. in., the feast to conclude the 1ol-
lowing wednesday.
Cure for the Blues
"A Merry Heart Doeth Good Like a
Medicine" will be the subject or Or.
Frederic Bell tomorrow evening at the
First Humanity's church service in
Symphony hall. The doctor says he
will prove that true laughter purif1es
the soul, is an enemy tc malice, foe
to SANDER, a guardian angel against
evil and sure cure for the DlueS.
DR.. s. Hecht, rabbi of the Temple
B'nai Birth, addressed the Young Zion
lists last Thursday evening on THE
Children and the Grandchildren of the
Ghetto"
The annual Episcopalean diocesan
convention will open at st. PAUL.
parish house beginning May 10, to con-
tinue the following week.
The Unity club of the First Unitarian
church held a meeting last evening at
the church, preceded by dinner. The
Charming club will meet Monday even
ing. Nathaniel Bedford of the George
? Junior Republic will make an address.
]. Campbell White. international Sec
rotary of the laymen's missionary
movement, went to San Diego last
Thursday, where he conducted meet
ings. He will go from there east.
The Los Angeles presbytery will meet
next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day at the First Presbyterian church,
Pasadena. DR.. ]. w. Millar will deliver
the opening sermon Tuesday evening.
AT this presbytery commissioners will
be elected to go to the general assembly
in Kansas City, opening May 3.
The literary section of the Temple
B'nai Birth met last "Wednesday even
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