Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-25
CHRISTIAN WORLD
IS BOWED TODAY
BEFORE THE CROSS
Catholics and PrOtestants OBJ
serve Good Friday in
Memory of Cruci6xiOn.

In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal
churches as we'll as in a number of
others the services today were marked
with the utmost solemnity in COM
m~emoration of the crucihxion. All of
the vestments worn by the clergy at
the services today were of black and
white, and the thrones and affairs were
stripped of every n the
floors and seats in sanctuary were
bare.
In the Roman Catholic churches only
one mass was said today. which is
known as the mass of the presanctihed,
1t is not a mass in the true sense, as
no conservation takes place, only the
host consecrated the day before is con-
sumed by the celebrant, for today the
world stands appalled, at the remem-
brance of the Lords death.
After the service the w~orshippers
went to the altar ratings, where the
cross was placed before them. The
origin of this ceremony, according to
Catholic writer's, goes back to the time
when %. Helen, the mother of Con-
stantine the Great. in the fourth CEN
fury, recovered the cross on which
Christ was crucihed. The sacred relic
was exposed to the people, and they
fell down in alteration of their Lord.
who was crucifed on ii. 1t became
customary for the clergy to expose 1t
on Good Friday each year in Jerusalem,
and the holy city was crowded with
pilgrims from all parts of the world
during Holy Week. In the seventh CEN
tury the custom was followed in every
church in the world by exposing to the
people the image of the crucified Lord.
1t was only an image, but it served to
fecall their Lord who died for them,
and this alteration was to Him who had
died upon it. To them it was the SYM
boil of salvation.
On every day in the year in the
Catholic churches except Good Friday
prayers are said for all men except
for heretics. On Good Friday no eX-
ceptions are made.
At st. Patricks Cathedral the Right
Rev. Monsignor l. P. Whelan was the
celebrant of the mass of the presancti-
fed. and at 4 o'clock this afternoon
the tenebrae will be chanted. M~onsignor
Whelan will preach a sermon at 1880
o'clock, to be followed by the odoratlon
of the cross.
Similar services will be held at all OF
the other Catholic churches. There
was also an agony service from IL
o'clock noon today until 8 o'clock.
The day was observed in Trinity
Episcopal Church his morning at II
o'clock with prayers and a sermon by
the Rev. Louis Shreve Osborne, rec
tor. At 5 o'clock this afternoon the
Rev. Albert w. II. Thompson will dis
cuss 1.-The Life of Christ" and at s
o'clock tonight there will be prayers
and a sermon by the rector.
The Penitential Psalms were recited
at 6:15 o'clock this morning in OBJ
of the day in Grace Episcopal
Church. At 1890 o'clock there were
prayers AND a sermon by the Rev,
Charles II. Wells. The three-hour serv-
ices in honor of the crucifixion were
conducted from II until 8 o'cloc%while
at 4 o'clock the children, led by the
Rev. M. A. Barnes. made The sta
tons of the cross. Father Barnes will
also conduct the night service, preach,
ing on 1.-The Passion"
A special Good Friday service viii
be held in the Church of the Reedemer,
Broad and Hill streets, tonight, at 8
o'clock. The Rev. Henry r. Rose will
deliver a lecture on why I Believe
We Do Not Die