Feilding

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 43, 24 October 1907, Page 15

Feilding

(From an 'occasional correspondent.) '' We here would be pleased to exchange weather with Otago for a time, and would gladly accept - sunshine for all the rain we are having and are likely to have for the next two months. The health of the Rev. Father O'Meara has improved greatly. He had a delightful trip Home, and. in a recent letter gives an account of .a visit to Dublin. Father O'Meara expects to be back at Feilding about the middle of November. A Triduum in accovtiajice with the decree of our Holy Father the Pope which began on October 11, was celebrated at St. Bridget's Church, Jbeildijag, .by His Grace the Archbishop. The exceedingly wet and stormy weather of late experienced over ~ the district prevented many from attending, although at the two Masses and Benediction on Sunday there were very large congregations. in the celebration of the Triduum his G-race was assisted by the Very Rev. Dean Binsfeld, S.IVI. On the opening of the ' Triduum his Grace preached a most -eloquent and impressive discourse on the Keal Presence. On Saturday evening, and at the eleven o'clock Mass on Sunday the subject brought forcibly before the people by his Grace was the great love and devotion they should have for, and the necessity of receiving often and wortmly the Blessed Sacrament. The closing sermon on Sunday evening was on the Uoly__S_a_crifice of. the Mass, in the course of which his Grace exhorted a faithful obEervance of the laws of the Church in attending Mass on Sundays. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament followed. The Sisters of St. Joseph sang the 'f c Deura ' most 'devotionally. Lnfortunately we do not often have the privilege and pleasure of listening to the sermons of our illustrious Archbishop, and those who were not present during the Triduum missed a treat, and an" exceptional opportunity that may not soon occur again.