DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, 20 December 1906, Page 23

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From- our own correspondent.) * December 17,. Close holiday is being observed to-day (Monday) in honor of' the fifty-sixth anniversary of the foundai*ioh of Canterbury. The greatest attraction will, of - course," be the Exhibition, in the grounds of which the Fijian firewalkers from . the Island of .Benga, who arrived during the week, will give their first performance, and the only one yel given outside their own island territory. ' • - - , ~ On last Sunday week the devotion/ of the Forty IIours'"~ Adoration was commenced at the eleven o'clock Mass in St. Mary's Church, Manchester street, ' and concluded on the following Tuesday morning. On the Sunday evening the" "sermon- was preached by the Rev. Father -Tymons ' (^'aimale;, and- on L " Monday -evening 'by the Rev. Father Cooney (LytCellou). - _ ' The mission "of "the Red enip tori's t Fathers in r the Cathedral is being very la/rgely attended throughout. On last Wednesday evening, in the presence of a great congregation, the Very Rev. Falher Ohme preached- a splendid discourse on ten;p«rancc.- At the' half-past nine-o'clock 'Mass on Sunday last the Rev. Father Lowham made an impassioned appeal to any neglectfulfill ones to respond to the exceptional time of- grace during thisj the last week.-' lifM,he evening Ihe C'aihcdral was again crowded, when-" the- same gifted preacher delivered an' impressive discourse- on me -general judgment. He also announced a -special' Mass at eight o'clock next Sunday, when -every man in -, the parish is expected to approach the fioly Table.. Those associated with the H.A.C.B. Soeiely, the Catholic Club, - and St. Vincent de Paul Society," arc, to -attend in their distinctive 'regalia. - -