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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIII, Issue 18, 4 May 1916, Page 20

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.)

May 1.

Devotions in honor of the Blessed Virgin are to be held in the church every evening during the month of May. A special sermon is also to be preached every Sunday evening during the month by Rev. Father Herbert, S.M., explaining the Catholic doctrine concerning devotion to our Blessed Lady. ' , V 1 On Wednesday morning last, a ceremony of reception was held in the chapel of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, when a postulant received the holy- habit ■of ‘ the Order. Rev. Father Aubrey, S.M., of Waimate, performed the ceremony, and also preached a sermon suitable to the occasion. - 1 s _ . ~ In accordance with the wishes of his . Lordship the Bishop, Anzac Day was observed here in a fitting , and solemn manner. There was one of the largest congregations ever present in the church at 11 o’clock, when a Missa Cantata was celebrated by. Rev. - Father - Herbert, who, taking for his text — ‘ Going, they shall go weeping; but- coming, they shall come joyfully, carrying' their sheaves,’ preached an able and eloquent sermon, ■ dealing with the history of ; the war from a religious standpoint. The rev. preacher paid a loving tribute to those heroes who had laicDdown their lives so willingly and gladly for King and country, and referred' in a special manner to the bovs of the district, who. had fallen in battle, and spoke words of sympathy and consolation to their bereaved relatives and friends. ; „ After the Mass, prayers for the dead were recited, and the ‘ Dead March ’ was played by the organist? (Miss Dennehy), which added greatly to the solemnity of the occasion. . . .