CONTRIBUTION OF A COLLEGE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22343, 5 March 1938, Page 6

CONTRIBUTION OF A COLLEGE

T&AIJKSGiviK-G Af st. pAfiucfc's WELLINGTON, March 4, The staff and students oi St. College, Wellington, participated this mbfhihi in Soiemh Sigh Mass sung ia thanksgiving fb> ihe blessings of .thj flrst century 81,-Roman Cathdlic hj» in the Domihidn.'.'ln which the collet has played,an imßoftaivt part. ' . The celebrant 3r&s the Rev. Fathel T. Cleafy, S.M. The tJeac&ii and subs deacon wjsrfe the, Rev.JFather M.,Burkei S.M., aha the Rev. Father C. Knight; S.M. The Rev. .Father T. Betgin; S.M., Was Master of Ceremonies. Mus* was sujoplied by_ the college choir.. _Tne sermon was preached by Father Clearß the in the absence 81 thf Rector, whb is. representing the collet at the centenary celebrations at Auck s land. . Father Cteary mentioned that duHnf the edllefe's shbrl history no WK& than,,l2s former pupils had gone Jam. as Marist priests to assist in building Catholicism in this country, with tfi* Metropolitan of New Zealand, Archbishbp O'Shea, at the head. In addition, many of the diocesan clergy, members of the Franciscan Order, Society of Jesus, Redemptorist Order, Sotietf Ef M ? r y;. a nd missionaries of the Sacreß Heart cbiild be numbered. This was one of the college's proudest traditiofts that it carried dh the task of pionefr missionaries in the work of the Chureft in sabred ministry. It was for the present bdys tb carry tin the torch offaitthanded dpw.n by the teachers of the Society bf Mary over the last hundred ?£ ai V V lte i u * ure of th e Church & New Zealand Was largely in the hands of those still at school.