Traditional And Combined Services For Easter

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29802, 19 April 1962, Page 15

Traditional And Combined Services For Easter

Some Christchurch churches will mark Easter with traditional services while others will combine with other denominations to hold services. Three-hour Good Friday services of • devotion will be held in the Christchurch Cathedral, St. Luke’s Anglican Church (which parishioners from St. Michael’s and All Angels Anglican Church will attend) and St. John’s Anglican Church tomorrow from noon. At the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, a service of the Adoration of the Cross will be held tomorrow afternoon.

The Durham Street Methodist Church, the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church and Trinity Congregational Church will hold a combined service in St. Paul’s Church. Baptists expect many of their members to be attending Easter camps while many

Church of Christ members will be in Dunedin attending the last annual conference of the church to be held during Easter. Seven denominations will take part in a Procession of Witness in Linwood tomorrow. The procession has been organised by the Linwood Ministers’ Association. The procession will start from the Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd in Phillipstown, circle through streets for two miles and return to the church when the Bishop of Christchurch (the Rt. Rev. A. K. Warren) will speak to conclude the ceremony. There will be several stopping places during the procession at which speakers will address those taking part. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, members of the Church of Christ, Congregationalists and Salvationists will be in the procession. Many other churches will hold a service tomorrow

morning. Many Anglican ones will hold ante-Communion services. The Lutheran Church will hold a Communion Service in the morning and in the afternoon there will be a service conducted in Latvian. A territorial commander of the Salvation Army in New Zealand (Commissioner A. J. Gilliard) will be in Christchurch during Easter. He will conduct meetings tomorrow, open a citadel at Rangiora on Saturday, conduct a service at the Sydenham Citadel on Sunday and address Salvationist youth on Monday. On Saturday evening a play called “Fellowship” written by Commissioner Gilliard will be presented by the Christchurch Citadel drama group. Easter vigil services will be held in St. Michael’s Church and in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. They will conclude with a mass in the Cathedral and a Communion service in the Anglican Church at midnight on Saturday. An early morning service will be held by the Methodist Central Mission at Edmonds band rotunda on Sun. day morning and the Salvation Army will hold an early morning service in Victoria square. Most other churches will hold Communion services or their normal services on Sunday. Masses will be celebrated hourly at the Roman Catholic cathedral.