ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL.

Auckland Star, Issue 23, 28 January 1901, Page 3

ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL.

At. St. Patrick's Boman Catholic; Cathedral yesterday morning special, reference was made to the death or the Queen by the Key. Monsignor O'Keilly in the course of his sermon. He said a great Queen and a good woman had died, and the Catholics, in common with their fellow-subjects of other denominations, were ready to pay their tribute to her worth, and to sorrow for the loss sustained by that extensive Empire over which she had ruled so long and so well. He spoke of the progress the Koman Catholic Church had made an her reign, and said that in the British dominions the Church had perfect liberty/and well she had availed herself of that liberty. The Queen loved the virtue of purity, and she wished her subjects also to love it. Ul course according to the rules o± the Church they could not offer up public requiem mass for the repose of the Queen's soul, because she was not one of them, but still there was nothing to prevent the faithful throughout her dominions offering up prayers privately on her behalf. No doubt the King, from whom much was expected, would follow in the footsteps of his good mother. They would pray to God to let his reign be a long one, and that he, walking in the footsteps of his good mother, and using his powerful influence throughout the Empire, might do much good and confer much benefit on his subjects. At the conclusion of the service the "Dead March" in Saul was played most impressively b ythe organist and orchestra. The choir and orchestra rendered Gounod's "Messe la Solonelle" with splendid ci-

feet. At vespers- in the evening the choir and orchestra performed a magnificat composed by Mr. Harry Hiscocks, organist, entitled, ' Magniiicat Solonelle," and as an offertory piece, "Blest Are the Departed," from .Spohr's "Last Judgment." The orand orchestra also again played the "Dead March" in Saul. Similar marks of respect to the memory of her late Majesty were also irenuered at the other Catholic ' Churches.