DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 36, 7 September 1899, Page 6

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH.

(From our own correspondent.)

September 4 The Forty Hours Adoration will commence in the Pro-Cathedral on the loth inst. His Lordship the Bishop makes his episcopal visitatian to, and commences his mission iv the Ashburton parish next Sunday week. The Rev. Father Hi^im h at present replacing the Rev. Father Marnane at i-t. Mary's, ALmcheoU r street, during the latter's temporary abseiioi' on the West Coast. Thy tiw ycliuil Letter of his Holiness Pope Leo XIII. on the consecration of n.ankind to the Isacred Heart of Jesus was read at the Hitfh Mass iv the Pro-Cathedral on Sunday. T be R"V Father Marnane. ot St. Mary's, Manchester street, left ove>l viii ' n Tuesday lor Gn-yuiouth to be present at the silver jubilee celeb; ations of the Very Key. Dean Carew. The Rev. Father Aubry, of Leeston, and the Rev. Father O'Connell, of Waimate, who had effected some time ago a brief interchange of duties, have now returned to their respective districts. On Sunday next the annual charity sermons in aid of the Society of St Vincent de Paul will be preached in the Pro-Cathedral at High Mass by the Very Key. Father Le Menant des Chesnais, V.G., aud in the evening by the Rev. Father Goggin, S.M. Special musical arrangements have been made for the occasion. His Lordship the Bishop returned to the city on Tuesday evening from the south, leaving again on the following Friday morning for Geraldine, where on Sunday last the episcopal visitation of the parish was made, and a mission by his Lordship and the Very Rev. Dean Foley began, which is to be continued during the present week. [Our correspondent's account of events in Timaru, Greymouth, and Pleasant Point are covered by reports published elsewhere from the centres referred to.— Ed. N.Z.T.]