THE HOLY SEASON IN DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 51, 19 April 1895, Page 18

THE HOLY SEASON IN DUNEDIN.

The ceremonies of Holy Week and Easter were coTJuoted <v up nut in St Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin. On Wednesday Thursday, and Friday evening the offico of tenebraj took place. The Lamentations were chanted by the Very Bey Fathers O'Leary, and Lynch and the Rev Fathers Newport, O'Neill (Miltoa), Hunt, and Ryan,-and the Lessens by the Rev Fathers Vereker, O'Donnell (Gore), Murphy, McMullin, Coffiy, and Howard. The sanctuary choir chanted the "Jerusalem," and, antiphonaHy with tbe priests, the" Benedictns 1 and " Miserere." On Thursday eveniog the Rev Father O'Neill preached on the Real Presence, deliveiing a very able and instructive Bermon. On Friday evening, after the conclusion of the office, a relic of the true cross was exposed for the veoeration of the faithful, the Very Rev Father lynch explaining the devotion. On each evening a large congregation was present. Tbo celebrant of the High Mass on Holy Thursday wae Father O'Leary, the deacon, Father Newport, the sub-deacoo, Father Vereker, and the master of ceremonies, Father O'Donnell. The music of the Mass was sweetly and devotionally sung by the choir of the Dominican nuns. The nuns, too, had decorated the altar of repose with a very refined taste. Adoration was kept up throughout the day by the members of the Society of the Children of Mary and of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, and throughout tbe night by the men of the Holy Family. The celebrant of the Mass of the Prcsanctified on Good Friday was Father O'Neill, the deacon, Father Vereker, and the sub-deacon, Father Ryan. Father O'Leary preached a very touching sermon on the Passion of Our Divine Lord. The church was densely crowded. Ou Holy Saturday the celebrant; was Father Hunt, the deacon, Father Lynch, the sub-deacon, Father Howard, and the master of ceremonies, Father Murphy. Tbe music was sung by the nuns' choir. On Easter Sunday the number of communicants at the early Masses was very large. High Mass was celebrated at 11 a.m. by Father Lyncb, with Father Murphy as deacon and Father Howard as sub-deacon. Father Murphy preached an excellent sermon on the Resurrection. An English varaioa of the byma '• 0 F.lii, Filfa " was eung by the cathedral cboir before Ma«s commenced. The Mass performed by the choir was Haydn's No I :- B oprano, Mrs Sandys • contralto, Miss R. Drumm ; tenor, Mr E. Eager ; basp, Mr J. Hally. There was a large congregation, and in the evening at Vespers and Benediction Ihe church was crowded— notwithstanding tbe rain, which had set in on Friday forenoon, continuing, with little intermission, for the next three days.