DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 23, 5 June 1902, Page 4

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH.

(From our own correspondent.) June 2. The annual collection in aid of the Diocesan Seminary Fund was made at all the Masses and at Vespers on Sunday. The Yen. Archdeacon Devoy, S.M., Provineal, is on a visit to Canterbury, and at present staying at St. Mary's, Manchester htrett. One of the largest audiences of the s-ason assembled in tbe Colo«seum m 1 hursday evening last tolwitness the conclusion of the Coronation Carnival Towards 10 o'clock the goods remaining over, fittings, decoration*, etc., were fcubmitted to public auction, and realised sati-ifactory prices. On Friday evening a mo«t successful concert and social were given by a company from Christchuroh, assisted by local talent, in the Yallhurst School, in aid of the funds of a bazaar now being organised, and to be opened in August, to liquidate the debt on the recently-erected church at Hornby. During the course of an earnest appeal in the Pro-Cathedral on Sunday on behalf of the Cathedral building fund, the Very Dean Foley huid that hr> knew of numbers of young men who, becaui-e they were single, did not recognise any liability in regard to church support and extension. He (the Dean) was firmly of opinion that when men reached the age of 2."> years it was quite time they thought of getting married Many of these argued that it took all their available me«ns to Mi[ poit themselves, but he could tell them that the married stale, apai c from providing them with a wife to adorn a home, tended to muke them better men physically, morally, and financially. In connection with the patronal feast of the Pro-Cathedral on Sunday (within the Octave of ( orpus Chiisti) there was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from High Mass until Vespers. Many fi^sunbled during the afterno >n to make an act of adoration. At Vespers the Yen. Archdeacon Devoy preached a most impressive discourse on the ' Institution of the Holy Euchare&t.' After the Kiuion there was a procession lound the interior of the church, which was tnken part in by the vaiiuus confraternities, and membeis of the Hibernian Society and Catholic Club. Much decorative t.is o had been bestowed on the sanctuary and side altar?, and the high altar when illuminated locked particularly tine. There was a eroded congrtgation.