CIRCULAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 22, 29 May 1902, Page 3

CIRCULAR

OF THE Archbishop and Bishops of New Zealand TO THE Clergy and Laity of their Charge. +

Pearly Bklovkd Brethren- or tii« Clergy AND Laity, — It is our e.irnest desire to heartily associate ourselves and our flocks with the sentiments and expressions of thankfulness and joy emanating from the hundreds of millions of loyal and devoted subjects throughout the worldwide British Empire, on the auspicious occasion of the Coronation of His Gracious Majc-sw, King Edward VII. Accordingly, we deem it our duty to remind our respective Clergy and Faithful that, while they gladly join their fellow-colonists in all the festivities connected with this joyous event, they must not forget to thank and invoke, with the deepest sense of Keligion, the Great and Good God, the author of human Society, ' by Whom Kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things,' in ordar that He may shower His choicest blessings upon the New Reign, to make it long, happy, and prosperous. Wherefore, we enjoin that, in all the Churches of our Dioceses (in which weekly service is held), a solemn Te Deum of thanksgiving and invocation be sung or recited, at the hour most suitable for the re^pjetive congregations, on Thursday, the 26th of June (Coronation Day) or on the following Sunday. Given at Wellington on this 27th day of May, a.d, 1902. * FRANCIS REDWOOD, S.M., Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan. * JOHN JOSEPH GRIMES, S.M., Bishop of Christchurch, * MICHAEL VhRDON, Bishop of Dunedin. * GEORGE M. LENIHAN, Bishop of Auckland.