BRILLIANT SIGHT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 11

BRILLIANT SIGHT

COLOURFUL PROCESSION IN SYDNEY EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) • (Rec. September 6, 8.20 p.m.) Sydney, September 6. Fifty thousand people congregated outside the packed St. Mary’s Cathedral to hear pontifical- high mass celebrated by the Bishop of Namur, in the presence of the Papal Legate. The mass was heard by crowds in the park outside by means of amplifiers, many in the waiting throng dropping to their knees and praying. From an early hour the Cathedral .was the scene of great activity, the congregation of over nine thousand assembling long befoie the mass commenced, including members of tlie consular corps and the chief Civic commissioner. There was a most impressive and magnificent sight as the procession entered the Cathedral, headed by the Knights of St. Gregory and St. Silvester and the wearers of the Crown of Leo, all in dress clothes and wearing orders. Monsignors of the Papal Household, vicar-generals of the diocese, and the master of ceremonies, in a long line of purple-clad bishops. The colours of many different nationalities and orders made a brilliant spectacle. It was by far the most brilliant sight of the congress proceedings. “GLOOM RELIGIONS” VIEWPOINT OF MAN IN THE STREET Sydney, September 6. “Our world to-day is full of gloom religions. They are erecting a barrier between men and God,” declared Father Lockington, head of Riverview College, Sydney, speaking at a great gathering in the Sydney Town Hall at the Eucharistic Congress festival. “As the result of these gloom religions, millions of ordinary. people are wandering- in doubt or in the valley of despair, going down in a morass of materialism. Most people look upon religion as a depressing thing and a perverter of human life, and upon ministers as killjoys. This conception of religion is very prevalent, and from the point of view of the man in the street is quite tlie right position. Therefore. it must lie faced. Men died in millions some time ago in the cause of liberty, yet you have less of it to-day than ever.”