DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 52, 29 December 1904, Page 18

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

rUuih? lll^ MaSS was Celebra^ d at Christmas in BalworXpers 0 ' 6 Wa§ a VCry large of deVout The Very Rev. Father Brown, S.J com,nletert tihr» '^Xv n ir°7 th £ PaTiS ' h Of Lawr C «T C sf iSt On Monday he proceeded to Dkinedwi and durmg the week sets out for H-ofcitiha. UUnmin ' aina IJie lUon. John Meagher, M.L.C., so well kiwi^n in SJi^? 1 ' f nd relics lifeTNew F?ilav n? 1 ' + S(pejn \ a fe ™ da ys m Diunedin, arriving o n irwlay of last week. He was welcomed by the BikihoD S2h? R ay ' S* v atte » dccl *he banket given by X Rutfit Rev. Dr. Verdon on Monday. The distingLislhed visitor returns to the Hot Lakes this W( 4 aisUn^ihed P.ir.VL-^A to Masses at 7 ami 9 o'clock at St Patrick s Basilica, South Dunedin, on Christmas Day »' Miga Cantata was celebrated at 'll o'clock by t£gw Ref kw?rSV the Tf ecrnm ° n - bein S P r^hed y by the rL i h Cy ' 7 he m u sic wa * farmer's Mass in nlni??, Wa ? rendered *n an exceptionally creditable ?he sol^s s6s 6 wP°rp' M* iSled b J M eflicient orchestra (aft. n ussssl tenjor), a nd Messrs. Kerr and K. flush (bass) During the offertory Novello's setting of the < Arfestes Fide \el' was sung t*he soloists being Misses Carr a^ Kerr and Messrs. M LVoy and F, Bulh. Mr. ijagar coStell and Mrs Eagar presided at the organ The orchestra Sir ' MarCh ° f S 'as T -°Xt g a ChrthhUff" 17 !™*** at St - Jos °P h ' s Cathedral on Chrsflnas Day arge numbers appToachetf the Holy brated A- 11 , 000 ? P^tifical Hi 3 h Mas B w5 cele brated by his Lopdsdiip the Bisibop, Rev. Father Clearv bei,i,g assistant priest, Rw. Father M<urtfh v <A$£ 7 doa^on, anil Rev. Fatter O'Malley wiWeapo? 7 The s^r lm (tenor), and Messrs. Woo* and Wey (bass) £

am offertory piece the ' Ades'te Fideles ' was rendered tihe solfo iflarts being taken by Misses Pounds an,d Dr'nmm and Messrs. Smith and McG.rath. Mr. A. Vallis presided at tfhe organ and Mr. Feil conducted. The organist played as an outgoing voluntary ' Offer toi re yur dgux Noels.' The decorations were in excellent taste and effective, artd wore cdnftned principally to t*he high altar, over which were the wior'ds, ' Gloria in ExceLsis I>eo.' To tihe right of the main entrance was tihe crib. After Mass the choir we*re entertained by his Ltoxdsnip tihe Bishop, wWo complimented them on the manner in wihkih tihe music was rendered,, and an the progress made by them duimg tlie ytfar. Im the evening ilieie was a very large congregation, when tflie Rev. Father Claft'ey, S.J., proachad an the Nativity.