PATRONAL FESTIVAL

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 441, 24 May 1937, Page 4

PATRONAL FESTIVAL

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH Visit Of Bishop Cherrington The patronal festival of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford, was celebrated yesterday by large congregations at all services. The Bishop of Waikato, the Rt. Rev. C. A. Cherrlngton, was celebrant a.t Holy Communion and later in the day conducted services at Toko and Huinga before preaching at evensong at Stratfordc The golden offering reached a sum of nearly £lOO, £l5 more than that at the close of last Trinity Sunday. There were 166 communicants at Holy Trinity Church at the parish communion and the hall was subsequently filled for the communicants’ breakfast organised annually. The church was again filled for the children’s' service at 11 a m. and services a)t Toko, Cardiff, Midhirst and Huinga were all well attended. Holy Trinity Church was well filled last night for the festival evensong but it was not so crowded as at the morning communion service, a fact commented on in hih sermon by Bishop Cherrington, who expressed a wish that such were the case in every church of the diocese every Sunday of the year. It would show, he said, that the people were recognising their obligation to begin Sunday in the right way.