Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-28

TIC N1OTLIIL1S JOuE110LS ]
and suffering of the cross rather
than on the glory Of the resurrec-
ton, and | whispered to my friend,
There will be a CruCiflXion CO.
night, l know it,"
Finally Joseph announced that
Las Tinieblas would be celebrated
in memory of Christ's hours upon
the cross, that those who did moi
wish to stay might leave at once, as
ii is the custom to close the NOR
ada. The babies We're taken out
the door and windows covered with
the candles Of the wooden
triangle gradually eXtinguished
and just before the last dim light
went out, weird sound came
through the wall as though it Were
coming up from the bowels of the
earth. | had been told that this
was the soul in hell so I was pre-
pared for the intimate little con
which was then INDUCED
in by the Hermano in charge witt
the lost soul on the outside.
Las TineblaS.
The light went ont, plung-
ing rs in thick blackness: in
stantly, through some amaz-
ingly clever prestidigitation.
the most deafeninS noise
have ever heard at such CLOSE
quarters, not barring tho Chi
cagO elevated. broke ont:
chains ratified and clanked
thundcrOusly, pitcros mingled
with "malatecas." or wooden
rattleS, the sound of flOgging
as figures whose presence could
nos be felt though not heard
or seen an they passed up and
down the aislcs ''s0tnndO"--
flOg2ing themselves.
They achieved Il magnificent
racket. The little sonora next
to- me seized nay hand. drew
my head on her shoulder and
pattcd me. Every now and
then there was ID sudden DEATH
like lull. In one Of these i
whispered 10 u form behind
me. ''Wlll they do more PEN
Gnce tonight VIII one suffer
on the erosc2" j hardly dared
asked IL and waited with bated
breath for the answer. 70
cTeo que ST." sri s...
10 ii '4En donde?'' F.. t.trg
4s "En al monte
That was all. | changed my
seat i'm the darkness. The din
began again, and u heavy chain
fell ON MY foot 80 that
screamed aloud and the Hery-
Gus professor sitting next me
threw her arms around my
face; someone fell on her in
the aisle, she said, One of the
others held up her arm with
her illuminated wrist watch on
ii and waved Il back and forth
IN give the main actors a thrill
The inferno stopped. the lights
went ON. There stood the Broth
ers of Light unruffled, with not a
sign of q chain in sight, although
such noise required ships anchors
and chains to say the least, and
chains will rattle when handled.
Joseph bid us a gracious good
night, and bid us to accompany
them at the service of La Gloria"
the next morning. The group lin
gered within. They evidently were
us.
As we came out Of the morada |
saw with start that the cross was
gone from its place against the
other cross. ! flew ahead What
could we do? We were met at the
car with the announcement that
while the two left behind were
sitting quietly in the back seat, the
of the car all up, eight
men had suddenly appeared from
behind the house bearing the cross
had gone noiselessly away down
the road dragging in inl the direc-
ton of the campo santo. They had
not dared follow. knowing it would
be useless.
And They Took Away the Gross,
My hosts daughter was talking
in NV ear: Eyes, they have every
wear a crucifiXion." she said. Last
year some bad boys they steal the
cross Just for fun. atravieso, you
know and they take it away and
the Penitentes they come ina
them and make them undress, and
carry it back. and they won't do
it but they have to; and they tie
them up too for some time on the
cross with a sheet and lean II
against the wall And my nephew
he is one they make him too. and
il is showing hard. more than now,
and he says he will never do that
again" T..
but | think they have one to-
night, only they don't let anyone
see, they don't tell anybody. And
they stay up there all night or
Just a few hours and then
take him down to the morada.'
We gasped. 1t was sharp ana
cold, and showing. Black clouds
hung overhead, : cold light touched
the hill tops and the horizon.
out there under that
dark sky hung voluntary suffer
err, made in the likeness of his
maker, IMPLYING for the sake of
his Christ those hours of suffering
on the cross. Perhaps, and proba-
bly,, another maybe several others
like him, were hanging on similar
on New Mexican hills on
Good Friday night.
OanRrh ~ ANN