JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 514, 22 May 1909, Page 9

JOTTINGS.

The Pope has granted a long private audience> to tho ReV. Brother Hennessey, of Dub- V \ liu,'Tvho is nbout'to complete his visitation of all. tho Houses of tho Christian Brothers \ throughout the world—an undertaking which lias obliged him to cover about fifty thousand' , miles,', for it has taken him through Africa, America, Australia, and New Zealand. 'Tho ' Pope asked him many question* regarding tho ■' .progress of the Christian Brothers' schools, the ■ number of pupils, the methods of teaching, and- especially,'of religious', teaching, but. : ' what pleased liim most in the account was tho knowledge that his decree recommending y: frequent and oven daily Communion had pro- : , duced wonderful fruit among the boys under tho caro of this great teaching congregation. ' ' ■ His Holiness (says tho English "Tablot")-' gave a very hearty blessing to tho Brothers and their tens of thousandb of,pupils throughout tho world, i " t i Archdcacon Avetill prcaclicd a • strongly, practical sermon in the Christchurch Cathe- . dral last Sunday on the text, : "Why Stand }e Gazing up,into Heaven?" In conclusion ho said that as-tho result of various causes they woro face to face with :what : was called a hard winter—one that : would press very , hardly on many hard-working men.. If they were going to talk- platitudes when moq, women, and ' children wero starving, tlioy. . would bring .discredit upon Christ, their King, who was interested in men's bodies , as well as in their spirits,. They would pro? . bably havo a, "coal and! blanket fund," which .was all very well in its way ; but pro- : bably they would havo something more tliaa that. Ho hoped that tho city authorities ; would riso to the' occasion' ind try to provide work for honest and deserving men, / . and that tho , Church would assist them in that direction. Ho wanted to see tho Church a little moro human, to seo it really trying ' to assimilate tho Mastor's oxatnplo and'to V eeo it mindful of the fact that it had some* : - thing more to do than, to gazo solfishly into Heaven; ho wanted to seo tho Church really help to make tho kingdoms of this world tho kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.' , An alteration has been' mado in tho boun-,. darioS; botwofin tho_ Thorndon .and; To Aw •; 'Raman Catholic 1 parishes. ,Tho old boundary, established when Wellington was more or less confined to Lambton Quay, was through , Boulcott, Church, and Mount Streets. Tho now boundary, which' gives a largo addition to To Aro, follows Grey Stroofc, tho Kel- \ bumo tramway, and Kolbnrno Parade .to Plnnkot Strooi, " . i