DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 52, 27 December 1900, Page 19

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

The close of the nineteenth century will be marked by special religious ceremonies in St. Joseph's Cathedral. At midnight on Monday next, the closing day of the century, the Te Deum will be solemnly sung in thanksgiving to the Almighty God for all the blessings bestowed by Him upon the Church during the course of the century. The Vent (Water will next be sung, to implore tho Divine blessing upon the century which shall then have just opened. This will be followed immediately by a Pontifical High Mass, during which the Blessed Pacramjnt will be exposed. The solemn functions will conclude with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

The Rev. Father Keogh, S.J., of Melbourne, arrived in Dttnedin, on Monday, for the purpose of conducting the annual retreat tor the Dominican Nuns and the Sisters of Mercy. The entertainment given a few weeks ago by the lady members of St. Joseph's Choir was repeated in St. Joseph's Hall on Wednesday night of last week, when there was a capital attendance. The audience were highly pleased wiih the various items, and showed their appreciation by frequent applause.