GOOD FRIDAY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17430, 15 April 1922, Page 9

GOOD FRIDAY.

CHURCH miWI&SB. > The solemnities cottfiecrfcedwith Good Friday were observed in jrnxioua local churches yesterday. s ■ AttheCathedrai th<io£ening service was at 9.30 a.m., Ha"iss and litany.. At 10.30 a.m. there followed an; Commumon. semco With, an aadresi. Front noon to 3 pan. i;he solemn three hoars' devotion was conducted, the addresses based anthe; last word* from the Cross, being delivered by : the Rev. Dr Holloway. At 4.10 p.m. a children's service was held which < an ad. diessVas given by the Bishop oJrCanterbury. Evensong followed at 5 p.m. and at 7.30 in the piesKace of a crowded congregation, Staiuer's "Crucifixion." was sung fey the choir. The collections througll the day were fai St. Sivioux's orphanages, 'i'o-day, Hester Eve { there will be an mate-Communion .service at 7.45 a.m., Matins at 10 a, at., j and Choral Evensong .Ett 7-30 p.m. , A united Easter service, arranged ; byt}ie . Chriatchurch Ministers' .Association, was held yefitejilay morning i® St. Andrew's Ohurch. llie, service tta?: conducted by the Rev, N.- L. B. Webster, of St. Andrew's,. wad the Rev. J. Napier Millie preached, taking- as his text, John 14 and 31: "But that ihfi world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father giveth me cotainaadraent, even so I do. Come, let ub go hence/' The sacrament of the Lor<rs Supper was administered by Mr Webster to a very large congregation. Special hymns were and the solo, "He was despised," wsie song by Miss Sinclair. The offertory, which amounted to £3B 13b lOd, was in aid of the jßitssian Famine Fund. : ' At the ..Soman Catholic Cathedral yesterday, at 9 a.m., Ute Mass of the Presanctified waa celebrated by. the Rev. Ifather T. Hanrabon, the Her. Father J. Murphy bem,g Beacon, and the Rev: Father D„ Lordan, subBeacon. The: Passion Music was sun£ by 'the Rev. Fathers J. Hanrahan, JFihnerty and P. CPMeoghan. At 3 p.m. a large congregation wan present ut the "Stations of the Crow" and also in the «»*aing at the office cf Tenebrae. A special sermon on the Pa?sienwns preached by the Bev. Br. MeEvoy,. of Australia.