EASTER IN CHURCHES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21466, 13 April 1933, Page 12

EASTER IN CHURCHES

MANY SPECIAL SERVICES GOOD FRIDAY OBSERVANCE Services appropriate to Good Friday will be held to-morrow in a large number of Auckland churches. In St. Mary's Cathedral the Rev. Canon Fanoourt will preach at the morning service. The devotion of the three hours, from noon to 3 p.m., will be conducted by Archbishop Averill. In the evening the cantata "The Passion" (Varley Hudson) will be sung by the choir. The preachers at the morning and evening services in St. Matthew's Church will be the Ven. Archdeacon Simkin and the Rev. Canon Strong respectively. The three, hours' devotion will be conducted by the Rev. Cecil Watson in St. Paul's Church, by Rev. E. E. Bamford in St. Sepulchre's Church, and by the Rev. Jasper Calder in the Church of the Epiphany. In the evening a lantern service will be held in Sit. Paul's Church. The cantata "Olivet to Calvary" (Maunder) will be sung in the Church of the Epiphany by the City Mission Choir, the soloists being Mr. Robert Nixon, Mr. Will Ellis, Mi*s Laura Walker and Miss Adele Taylor. Good Friday observances in St. Patrick's Cathedral began last evening with the solemn office of Tcnebrae, in the course of which tho disciples' desertion of Christ is symbolised by tho extinction of a number of candles placed in the sanctuary. The service will be repeated this evening and tomorrow evening. This morning there will be solemn pontifical mass and blessing of the holy oils, and watch will be kept before the altar of repose throughout to-night by men of the city parishes. To-morrow morning the mass of the prtsanctified will be celebrated and other services will follow. The special preacher each evening will be Father Innocent Doyle, O.P. United communion services will be held in the Baptist Tabernacle and the Beresford Street Congregational Church to-morrow morning and evening respectively. Morning services will be held in St. Andrew's and St. David s Presbyterian Churches, and an evening service in the Pitt Street Methodist Church. The half-yearly Auckland Christian Convention will open to-morrow afternoon in Scots Hall and will continue until Monday evening. . Festai services will be held in all churches on Sunday (Easter Daj). Anglican churches, according to custom, will be decorated with flowers and greenery. In St. Mary's Cathedral Archdeacon Mac Murray will preach n the morning and Archbishop Averill in the evening. The archbishop w> 11 be the celebrant and preacher in bt. Matr thew's Church in the morning. The first Easter mass will celebrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral on Saturday. On Sunday mornm ß pontifical mass will be celebrated by Bishop Liston, who will also preach.