Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-19
AN APPEAL TO ALL
THE CATHOLIC WORLD
To Reverence Good Friday During
the Three Hours Devotion.
WHAT TO REFRAIN FROM.
A Day Consecrated to Prayer and
Meditation On the Passion of the
Death Of Christ.

OCdtu VA III ASe~
The following has been received by
this paper and its publication request
ed
Dear Mr.. Editor
We respectfully and earnestly re-
quest the publication of the following
COMMUNICATIONS assuring You of our sir
cere appreciation of your favor.
A movement TO promote a "Reverent
Observance of the Three Hours of the
Divine Agony on Friday" the first un-
dertaken in San Francisco Cal, in the
year 1910. has resulted in so. genera,
an observance on the part of the laitv
that one out of every fifteen of pop
ulation of five hundred thousand peo-
PIE in this city are taken from the pur-
suit Of the secular occupations of the
dav from the highways and by-ways
of life. TO the sanctuary, where at the
foot of the Cross. in meditation and in
prayer, the fruits of the Passion and
death of our Lord and Saviour flood in
upon the souls Of those gathered to
thus fittingly commemorate the Sacri-
fee of Calvary.
In the Lenton letter issued 10y His
Grace. Most Reverend Edward j. Han
ma. ID. D.. Archbishop of San Francis
co. to the Reverend Clergy of the nio-
cese in the present year, the Most Rev
erend Archbishop says
Good Friday has become. by the de-
voted zeal and practice of the faithful
of the Diocese of San F'rancisco,a day
especially consecrated TO prayer and
meditation on the Passion and Death
of Christ. The general observance of
the devotion of the Three Hours makes
it especially incumbent upon pastors
10 provide suitable exercises for the
large numbers who frequent churches
al this particular time. The services
on Good Friday should consist. there
fore. not only of the regular morning
services. concluding with the Mass of
the Pre- Sanctified. but also devotional
Z exercises from u to 3 o'clock. The
l traditional Good Friday evening serv-
ices. so popular with our people should
( he observed
Incidental to the attendance of the
people at the devotional exercises in
T the churches. and as means TO pro-
mote that end the Reverent Observ-
ance of Good Friday Committee sought
10 create condition that would make
the reverent observance OF the Three
Hours noticeable even IN the business
part of the city by efforts directed
along the following lines L. TO urge
individuals 10 observe leave to absent
themselves from their employment dur
ing the Three Hours for the stated pur-
! pose OF attending devotional exercises
| and, further. TO do all within their
power TO secure like privilege for 9th
, ors;2 to refrain from making unneces-
stray purchases during the stated hours
and TO encourage others 10 set a like
example; 3, to close their places OF
business from II to o'clock and max"
announcements of this fact by display
ing closed cards furnished by this com
mittee; 4, to use every endeavor to
bring about general closing among
the retail merchants in their respective
/ neighborhoods.
Cooperation with the efforts of the
/. individuals, the general committee de-
voted its efforts 10 the closing, where
possible. of the wholesale houses, sa-
looms and places of entertainment