Oamaru

New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1915, Page 27

Oamaru

(From our own correspondent.)

November 1.

To-day being the Feast of All Saints, Masses were celebrated at St. Patrick’s at eight and nine o’clock.

One of the most successful missions preached in this parish, that conducted by the Rev. Fathers Mangan, C.SS.R., and O'Sullivan, C.SS.R., was brought to a close last evening at the Basilica, after over two weeks’ strenuous labors by the devoted missioners. The Masses and evening- devotions each day were attended by large numbers of the faithful. At the evening devotions in particular the Basilica was much too small for the congregations that assembled, and it was ■i source of deep gratification and happiness to the devoted Fathers and to the local clergy to have it thus. Yesterday, at the half-past eight o’clock Mass, there was a very large muster of the Hibernian Society, when the members approached the Holy Table in a body. In the evening the Basilica was crowded, and the mission was brought to a close. The mission will open at Duntroon to-night and also at Windsor, and at Enfield on Wednesday, and Kurow on Thursday.