A RELIGIOUS SERVICE AT SEA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 49, 6 December 1900, Page 7

A RELIGIOUS SERVICE AT SEA.

On the last Sunday in September a unique religious service occurred on board an Atlantic liner. The service was conducted by two Catholic priests for the benefit of a congregation mostly Protestant. Here is an account of the service culled from a Protestant journal, the Outlook : —

'It was entirely in English and began with the usual phrase, " In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen," at which, as at the oloie, all the Catholics and most of the Anglicans present crossed themselves. Then followed the Lord's Prayer, everyone joining Then came the Catholic Aye Maria, or the Angelic Salutation taken from the first chapter of St. Luke, " Hail Mary, full of grace ; the Lord is with thee ; blessed art thoa among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Josub '—to which follows this petition : " Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us Burners now and at the hour of our death, Amen." 1 Next came the Apostles' Creed in the exact language familiar to everyone present, and then the General Confession, not, alas I in the language of the Anglican prayer book, but as the Catholics have come to use it. Its English translation begins thus : ' I confess to Almighty God, to the Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, to blessed Miohael the Arohangel, to Blessed John the Baptist, to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and to all the Saints, that I have sinned exceeding in thought, word, and deed, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.' This was naturally followed by the equisite prayer used by Catholics beginning : ' Almighty God, who, though dwelling in the highest heaven, yet vouchsafeth to regard the lowest creature upon earth.' The Epistle and Gospels were next read, and in the selections there was no variance of language from the King James version. ' The sermon followed — a noble discourse. Hymns had been selected to close the service, hymns dear, both in Latin and through many a translation, to Christians of whatever name — " 0 come all ye faithful," "Jesus, the very thought of Thee," and " Jerusalem the golden." '

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