CATHOLIC MISSION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 77, 1 April 1914, Page 8

CATHOLIC MISSION

The men's mission at St. Joseph's, Buckle-street, was continued yesterday and to-day. The attendances at the morning masses show no diminution in numbers, and about 400 received Holy Communion this morning. The Very Rev. Father O'Connell, S.M., who preached, took for his subject "St. Joseph, a Model Working Man," and exhorted his listeners to be faithful to the text imposed on them by God, and by means of which fulfilment and fidelity they would save their souls. The Rev. Father M'Carthy, S.M., dwelt on Catholic faith, taking for his text, " Without faith it is impossible to please God." The speaker said that necessity for belief in revealing religion and natural life would not be sufficient to gain Heaven. He urged not only the necessity of belief, but also the reasonableness of faith "which Christ asks us to accept in His Name, and this faith is to be found only in the teachings of the Catholic Church." He counselled his hearers to be faithful to their religion, and concluded" by quoting St. Paul's text, " I have fought a good fight; I have kept the faith, and there is stored up for me the crown which the best judge will give me." This evening the men's 'mission will come to a close with the renewals of the baptismal vows and the procession of the Blessed Sacrament will be presided over by His Grace Archbishop O'Shea. The members of the H.A.C.B.S. Society will form the bodyguards. The Very Rev. Father O'Connell, S.M., and the Rev. Fathers M'Carthy, Taylor, and Herring, S.M., leave for their headquarters in Temuka to-mor-row.