The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-04

SERVICES.
The Holy Week services at the
Cathedral of st. Paul will be as sol
emn and impressive as usual and will
be carried out with all the fullness
and richness of ceremonial prescribed
by the ritual Added interest will be
impaired to them by the fact that
this is the last occasion on which they
will be performed in the old Uathe-
dral.
The religious functions peculiar to
Holy Week will begin next Sunday
with the blessing of the Palm by the
Most Reverend Archbishop immedi-
atelv before the eleven o'clock Mass.
This ceremony recalls the trium phant
entry of our Saviour into Jerusalem
over a palm-bestrewn pathway and
amid the hosannas of an admiring pop
ulace. The blessed palm is embIe-
matte of victory-of the Saviour's vic
tory over death and the world, and of
our triumph over sin with the aid OF
His all-conquering grace. After the
Palm is blessed it is distributed to
the faithful and borne in procession
around the church to the singing of
sacred hymns.
During the Solemn High Mass which
will take place after the procession,
the Passion of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ will be chanted by stu
dents of ST. Paul Seminary, and the
Most Reverend Archbishop will preach
the sermon.
The Tenebrae.
The next significant service of Holy
Week is that of Tenebrae, which is
chanted on Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday evenings, beginning at eight
o'clock. 1t consists of number OF
Psalms, ETC., sung without organ ac-
compartment by trained choir OF
seminarians, and interspersed ith
lessons taken from the Lamen ms
of Jeremias, in which the prop. le-
walls the destruction of Jerusalem,
the captivity of the Jews, but still
more their forgetfulness of God which
brought this punishment upon them.
1t ends with the harmonized singing
of the "Benedictus' and the recitation
of the Psalm "Miserere" During the
service the lights in the sanctuary are
gradually extinguished until at last
the church is in darkness. From this
the service derives it's name-Tene-
brae, or darkness.
On Wednesday evening after the
Tenebrae, an instruction on the cere-
monies of Holy Week will be given.
On Thursday evening the sermon will
deal with some phase of the Holy Eu-
charist, and on Friday evening it will
be on the Passion, after which the
Way of the Cross will be performed.
Holy Thursday.
On Holy Thursday the cloud of sor-
row which hangs like pail over the
Church during Holy Week is lifted for
a time and the Spouse of Christ wraps
herself in a garb expressive of the joy
which fills her heart as she commem-
crates the institution of the Holy
Eucharist and of the Priesthood of
the New Law. The ministers of the
Mass wear white or gold vestments,
and only one Mass is celebrated in
any church on Holy Thursday. At the
Cathedral Pontifical High Mass will
be celebrated by the Most Reverend
Archbishop at ten o'clock, and during
it will take place the blessing of the
Holy Oils used in the administration
of the Sacraments. In addition to
the ministers of the Mass, the cele-
brant will be assisted at this cere-
mony by twelve priests chosen from
among the pastors of the Twin Cities,
and seven deacons and seven sub-dea-
cons from ST. Paul Seminary. The
whole ceremony is very beautiful and
significant.
During the Mass on Holy Thursday
two Hosts are consecrated, one of
which is consumed as usual. while the
other is placed in veiled chalice and,
at the end of Mass, is borne in sol
emn procession, with lights and
chanting, to the Repository, or altar
prepared for it on the Epistle side,
and adorned with lights and flowers
and ornaments, where it is kept until
the next day to be used in the Mass
of the Pre-sanctified. During the re-
mainder of the day the faithful visit
the Altar of Repose and adore the
Blessed Sacrament enclosed within
the Tabernacle.
Good Friday.