The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-07
HOLY WEEK, MOST
 SOLEMN OF YEAR, IN LOCAL CHURCHES
Hours of Services in Principal Churches Throughout
 the City

Holy Week, the most solemn period of the Christian year, when the -eeruci- hxion Of the Savior is commemorate ed, will have more than the usual
 observance in Bridgeport this year. Tn addition to the usual services of
 the Catholic and Episcopal churches, the Congregational churches have pre- pared for impressive ceremonies to mark the passing of the final week of the lenten season.
 With Maundy Thursday the services begin. On Good Friday there will be
 services appropriate to the commem- oration of the passion and death of Christ Holy Saturday is a day of
 unusual ceremony in the Catholic
 church In addition to the sacrifice of the mass, the blessing takes place of the Easter water. the holy water, the new fire, and of the Paschal can dIe. 1
 The consecration of the host is omit ted in the masses of Good Friday, the
 ceremony being Known as the mass of the pre- Hsanctihed.
 At the Sacred Heart church there will be masses Thursday, Friday and Saturday at g o'clock. Good Friday afternoon there will be services at 3 o'clock. and at T;30 that evening there will be benedictior, veneration of the cross, and the stations of the cross. Masses, Easter Sunday will be at ?: 80, 9:06, 9;3o and. 10: 30. Vespers will be at 7:30 Sunday evening. The full choir and the sanctuary choir will take part in the Easter music.
 At St. aAugustine's church the masses Thursday and Friday will be at and on Saturday at o'clock. Good Fri day afternoon the stations of the cross will be read at o'clock On Sunday the masses will be at the usual hours, .7:oo. s:3o, s:30 and 1o:so, with vespers at o'clock. Tonight at St. Angus Ia ef of ha foT1 of Father McCafthy, the Jesuit, will
 be preached.
 The Forty Hours devotion will be- gin at St. Mary's church with the high mass Easter Sunday Masses or, Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be at 8 o'clock. Vespers on Sunday will be at .3s30. The Easter masses will be at 7:a0 e:ee, 9;so and Io:s0.
 At St. Patrick.s church the mass on Maundy Thursday will be at 7:15 On Good Friday the mass of the pre-sanc- |tified will be at 8 o'clock. Good F,ri- day evening at 7:30 the stations of the cross will be observed. The mass on Holy Saturday will be at o'clock. All the masses Easter Sunday, will Bbe in the upper church at 7:O0, s.00, and 1D:30. vespers will he sung at 7:S0. Fat her shyne. the Jesuit priest, will conclude his series of lellten ser mons, on Easter Sunday
 The masses. Thursday Friday. and Saturday. at St. Cha1les will be at 8 o'clock Easter Sunday the masses will be at zoo, S:00. 9:15 and 10:30.
 At St. Peters church the masses will be at o'clock on Thursday, Friday and 5Saturday veneratione of the Ncross and the stations of the cross will be held on Good Friday evening at 7:30 Masses Easter Sunday will be at 8:30 and 19:30.
 At St Joseph's church the masses Thursday and Saturday. win be at S:15 Friday evening at 7:30 there will be stations of the cross tand veneratfon of the cross. Masses Easter Sunday will be at 8. 30 and 10?30. Vespers will be sung at 4sosclock.
 At St. Georges church the masses Thursday and Friday will. be at 8 O. o'clOck, and on Saturday at e,cfoek The Easter services will begin with the ceremonial of the resurrection at o'clock followed by the. first mass about z o'clock The second mass usually sung at 10:30, will be at 10 o'clock.
 In St. John's Episcopal church the daily services at 9:30 a. m. and 5 D. m will be continued until Holy Thurs day when there will be holy eoInml1n- ion services at 2, with services at Il a. m On Good Friday the morning services will be at Il a. m., and on Good Friday evening at o'clock the full choir will sing the passion music. d. m- and D. m. and on Easter Sunday at 7:30 a. m-, Il a. m. and D. m. The afternoon services are especially for the children and the fun choir will take part, as in both morning ser vices
 At St Paufs church on Maundy Thursday there will be holy conn1n11rl- ion service at 10 o'clock On Friday the morning prayers will sbe followed by a timely sermon. Good Friday evening the choir will render the can tata, Darkness and Dawn Satur- day at o'clock there will be evening prayer and the sacrament of holy baptism Easter Sunday the ceIebra- tfon of holy communion will be at o'clock and services at 10:3O will be followed by an Easter sermon The Sunday school Easter festival will take place at 4 o'clock the full choir par ticipatfng in all the Easter services.
 Union services of the First and the South Congregational churches fer Holy Week began last evening. win Rev Henry HalIam Tweedy, the for mer pastor of the church preaching at that church for both conversations Tonight Rev. Dr. Charles R. Brown. dean of the Yale Divinity school breaches at the first church
 Tomorrow evening the pastors will conduct nfdweek prayer services Rev MT. Gallaudet will preach at the South church Thursday evening, Dr. Swain at the First church Friday evening ] Choirs of the two church will unite for the union services
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