Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1946-1948

_-- Bishop Buddy Presides at Consecration of Holy Oils

I l\fost Rev. Char1es Francis Buddy, D.D., Bishop of the San Dieio Diocese, presides at the annual con• secratlon ol Holy Oil• durinr l\laundy Thursday Mass celebrated yesterday In St. Joseph's Cathedral,

)MAUNDY THURSDA y RITE ATTENDED BY THOUSANDS One ol the most solemn cere- year. The Oils are for the sacra- monies of the Roman Catholic ment of Extreme Unction, fo Church, the celebration of the sin• anointing those who are to be bap- gle Maundy Thursday Mass, was at• tized, and for anointing the priest' tended by thousands of San Diegans hands at his ordination, and th yesterday in St. Joseph's Cathedral sacred chrism, a mixture of oil an In Protestant Churches, sacred can• bah=am used in the sacrament o tatas and concerts, Communion confirmation and at the consecra services and sermons marked the tion of bishops. day's observance. During the Mass, the altar was Large crowds of worshipers today decked with flowers and the purple are expected to attend Good Friday veil, which covers the cross during Mas~es and services, including the the Passiontide. was replaced by Three Hours of devotion in which one of white. After the Mass. the the Crucifixion is commemorated. signs ot mourning were resumed, In keeping with custom. only. the altar being stripped of its cov- one Mass was !-aid in each Catholic,erings and ornaments, the lights in Church yesterday, commemorating the sanctuary extlngui,;.hod, and the the washing of Christ's feet, the in• door of the empty tabernacle left l stitution of the Blessed Sacrament,open. In Rome, }he Pope washed and the Lord's Supper. I the feet of 13 poor persons, all At the opening of the Solemn i priests, according to ritual. Pontifical Mass in St. Joseph's ---

Cathedral two HosL~ were con$e• crated by Most Re,·.Charles Francis Buddy, D.D., Bishop of the San Diego Diocese. One Host was used yesterday and the other was carried in procession to a place kno\1,rn as the Repository or Sepulchre, where it will remain until today, Good I Friday, when there is no con.secra• tion of the Host. The Bishop, clad in white vest• ments. officiated at the annual con• secration of the Holy Oils. In the rite, he blessed a sufficient quan. tity of the three Oils for the wants