PRAYERS FOR PEACE
APPEAL FROM THE POPE STATEMENT BY BISHOP MONTH'S CRUSADE LAUNCHED In accordance with the Pope's wish that the Catholic bishops of the world should make this month a crusade of prayer for peace among nations, a message from Bishop Liston, Catholic Bishop of Auckland, was read in every church in the Auckland Diocese yesterday. The bishop commanded that special prayers be said every Sunday morning and evening this month, and that an hour of public prayer be held in every parish church on Sunday, May 28, when all Catholics would be asked to receive Holv Communion at Mass. "The wishes" of the Pope are for us a command that we receive with respect and thankfulness," stated the bishop's message. "The appeal links us with our fellow-Catholics in all lands—some like ourselves blessed with freedom _in our faith, others in several countries suffering intensely and bravely because of their loyalty to God. It unites us also with men of goodwill everywhere, the great multitudes of men who crave for peace in their possessions and with their fellow-men."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23340, 8 May 1939, Page 13
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