Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1914 — St. Augustine’s Church Notes. [ARTICLE]

St. Augustine’s Church Notes.

This week, the week before Easter, has been called by <■ several names, from the great mysteries and various ceremonies celebrated and performed in it. The Greeks and Latins anciently called it the Great Week, the Holy Week, sometimes the Painful Week, that it, the Week of Awstrties; also the Week of Sorrows, the days of the Cross or of suffering. The chief object of the church in this week is to celebrate the memory of the passion* and death of her Redeemer Every part of the sacred liturgy is directed; the church’s offices, more solemn and more multiplied in this week than in any other during the whole year, are most especially adapted to excite in the hearts of the faithful those various sentiments of love and gratitude, of compassion for the sufferings of our Lord, of sorrow and detestation for Sin, which every Christian ought to cherish in this holy time Wednesday evening at 7:30 Rosary and sermon; Thursday morning, high mass and sermon at 9 o’clock; Thursday afternoon at 2:30, Encharistic Stations; Thursday evening at 7:30, devotional exercises. Friday morning services at 9 o’clock. Friday afternoon from 2 to 3, adoration of the Cross. Friday evening at 7:30 rosary and sermon. Saturday morning, the blessing of the baptismal water and Easter candle at 6:00. These ceremonies will be followedby the holy sacrifice of the mass. There will be an opportunity to i*eceive the holy sacrament of penance from 10 to the morning until late at night on Saturday. The early mass on Easter will be celebrated at 8. The Catholic Order of Foresters and the St. Rose Sodality will receive holy communion at this mass. Rosary, highmass and sermon at 10 o’clock.