DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11, 19 March 1908, Page 14

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.)

March 15.

The beautiful ohapel of the Sisters of the Missions, attached to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, is near"mg completion, and is expected to be out of the builders' hands within the next few weeks. Iha periodical conference of the" clergy of North Canterbury deanery was held last Tuesday at Rangiora. The Very Rev. Dean Gins.ty, S.M., V.Gr*., "presided, and there were fifteen of the clergy present. Some people have been seized with the impression (sa/d his Lordship the Bishop in conversation with your correspondjnt) that the Cathedral as a cold building jnteriorjily in the winter. 'Now this is an absolute fallacy, due to imagination rather than to any actual experience. Experts, both as to material and construction, unanimously agree that the right conditions are that the buildilngi is cool in summer and warm m ivanter. An erroneous impression is evidently formed by some, that because the constituents are stone and mater a!s of a similar nature" the Cathedral must necessarUy be cold, thus judging by appearance simply. Rightly, hqwejer, the very reverse in regard to human comfort obt^aas

At the Cathedral on Sunday evening, his Lordship the Bishop deliver© 1 ;! the second of a series of Lenten discourses, on the 'Catholic Church inrelat : on to Marriage.' As a preface to the subject Ms Lordship showed that from the fall of Adam woman was dishonored, and po'ygamy and divorce were rampant. The coming of our Divine Lord!, who exemplified the sacredness of marriage by wedding humanity to Himself and establishing; the Church, restored matrimony to its primitive high! position, and raised it to the dignity of a sacrament. He went on to show how by Divine legislation the unity and indissolubility of marriage were established. In brief, but forceful, terms he spoloe of the evils of divorce, and enlarged upon what woman owes to the Catholic Church and to the iFtopes.