A PASSIONIST MISSION AT AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 25, 20 October 1893, Page 31

A PASSIONIST MISSION AT AUCKLAND.

(New Zealand Herald, October 9 )

Thr Very Key Vincent Grogin, Baperior of the Order of the Passionists, who arrived from Sydney per R.M S. Monowai on Saturday last, to bold a mission here in all Catholic churches in the various centres or this diocea*, delivered an address at St Patrick's Cathedral yesterday at the Mass at 11 a.m., explanatory of the object of his mission, his Lordship Biebop Lack b>ing present. Father Grogan has bet n invited to establish branches of the Association of the Holy Family of Nazareth throughout Auckland, the Pope having expressed his wish to the bishops of the Catholic world to have branches of the Association formed in their diocese. The very rev gentleman took as his text, •« And He went down with them and came to Nasaretb and was snbject unto them," St Luke iii., 51. No one knows the wants of souls of the whole Church so well as his Holiness!, and be wishes that the institution of the Holy Family of Nazareth should be established everywhere throughout the world. The very rey gentleman then read an extract from the manual and the regulations of the Association of the Holy Family to explain its objects. The rery rey missioner then read the statutes of the Association and explained the regulations governing it. They all knew how much was done in the Catholic hom«s of Ireland and in the Christian homes of England and Scotland, and yet how d ; fficult it was to bring np a family (though they were watched most carefully) properly. Bat in the •olonieg there was no such thing as parental control. How much license was allowed to children, and how they were pampered and were not subject to their parents, and how frequently parents were indifferent to their obligations as such in these colonies. At the age of 15, and even sooner, they threw off all obedience to parents and became completely their own masters. If this were not stopped it would be the destruction of society, the weakening of the Catholic Church, and the ruin of mankind. The Catholic Church, inspired by the Holy Ghost, had established this society, which was planned on the life of the Holy Family at Nazareth and of Jesus, who was the centre and object of its existence. This society's object was to teach obedience to children, who will learn that Christ went down and dwelt in Nazareth with his parents, and was snbject to them. To parents it would teach their duty to their children, and to teach othsro and themselves. To all it would teach the Christian's duty. Ha had perfect confidence in the excellence of the object of his mission. Children who were now unruly would be made— with God's blessing and grace, obtained during the course of the mission, and through the establishment and maintenance of the Association in their midst— obedient ; scenes which disgrace Christian homes would be prevented, and scandals removed ; drunkards converted and drunkenness permanently prevented, and the grace and blessing of God brought into their daily lives and homee, and their toil sanctified here, while they would be preparing to win an eternal crown hereafter.