The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-01
HOLY WEEK IN ALL CATHOLIC CHURCHES
Hours of Devotion For Last
 Week of Lenten Season
COmmemOratiOn of Institution O1 Last Supper, and of Passion and Death of The Savior Will Be Observed in
 Usual Form

Holy week, the most solemn periot of the ecclesiastical calendar, will be l observed with the usual impressive cerem onials in the Catholic churche: in Bridgeport in common with church
 es throughout the Catholic world. The commemoration of the institu tion of the Last Supper. of the Pas sion and Death of Jesus Christ, ani of the eventful hours preceding th' resurrection on Easter Sunday, vii be held in Ahe usual forms. Special services will be held on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Hol, Saturday. In all churches confession: will be held Wednesday afternoon an6 evening to allow those who wish tc approach the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist on Thursday.
 On Friday the mass of the pre- sanctif1ed will be celebrated, and or Saturday the services will include the blessing of the Easter and Baptisna waters. The close of the lenten sea- son will be signalized on Easter Sun day by musical services more elabor ate than at any other season of the year.
 Yesterday, Palm Sunday, the Pas sion and Death of Christ was read at all masses, and the palms were blessed and distributed in commem- oration of the triumphal procession o1 the Savior with palms strewn in his pathway.
 Holy Thursday and Good Friday the services at St. Augustine's will be at o'clock and Saturday morning at o'clock. Friday at p. m. the Sta tions of the Cross will be read. Wed. nesday evening at 7:30 the last of the series of lenten sermons will be preached by Rev. Father Corbett. the eloquent Jesuit.
 At the Sacred Heart church the las1 three days of the week the services will L.gin at 8 o'clock each morning masaes will prevail. zoo and S:15 Evening devotions will be held Tues day and Friday evenings at 7:3O.
 At St Patrick's church confessions will be held Wednesday afternoon and evening. The services on Thursday of the pre-sanctifed will be offered at o'clock and services on Saturday will begin at the same hour. Friday evening services will be held at 7:30
 In St. Mary's church the services Thursday, Friday and Saturday will begin at o'clock. Evening devotions will be held as usual on Tuesday and Friday evenings at 7:45.
 At St. Charles church the usual hour of the parish mass, 7:3O will be followed in the devotions all week Evening devotions will be held Wed nesday and Friday at 7:30.
 Services at St. Peters will be at o'clock each morning during Holy week, and Friday evening the Stations of the Cross and other devotiOnS will
 be held at 7:30.
 in St. Joseph's church mass will be offered at 8 o'clock Thursday morn ing and the blessed sacrament will De exposed for veneration all day untl g D. m. Friday the mass of the pre- sanctified will be offered at 8:15. Sat urday services will begin at S:15. The hours of masses on Easter Sunday will be S:3o, 9:30 and 10:30. with solemn vespers at f o'clock Sunda5 afternoon.
 At St. Anthony's French R. c
 Church on Tuesday evening the usua St. Anthony's devotions will be held
 Confessions will be heard on Wednes- day afternoon and evening. On Holy Thursday, Holy Communion at 5:30 ano mass at 8 a. m. Prayer at the re. pository at 7:30 D. m. On Good Fri day, mass of the presanctified at a. m Stations of the Cross at D m. At 8 a. m. on Holy Saturday
 blessing of the paschal candle and o1
 the Easter water, followed by holy mass. On Easter Sunday, masses vii be held at 8:30 and 1O:30, the last one high mass, and the church choir under the direction of MT. Adelard ano Miss Gertrude Paradis, will render ap- propriate musical selections.