THE REDEMPTORIST MONASTERY, BALLARAT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 17, 27 April 1899, Page 6

THE REDEMPTORIST MONASTERY, BALLARAT.

One of the finest buildings in or around Ballarat is the Monastery of the Redemptorist Fathers, near Wendouree. Some time ago the Fathers, finding 1 the accommodation provided in that portion of the monastery then completed was not sufficient for their requirements, applied to their Superior-General at Rome for permission to complete the building. This was granted, and the work was carried out at a cost of £6,240. As the Fathers have no private means, no endowment, and no income from a parish, their only means of support being the charity of the faithful, they appeal to the generosity of their friends to assist in removing, or at least, lightening, the heavy burden placed upon them by the erection of this new wing. The provincial (Very Rev. Father O'Farrell) is now making an earnest appeal to the generous charity of the bishops, priests, and people of Australasia for whom the members of the Order have laboured, to the best of their ability, in the work of missions and retreats, for the last seventeen years. In building this monastery they have sought to reproduce m Victoria such a house of retreat as has been erected by the Order in Limerick and Dundalk, by the generosity of the Iribh people. In making this appeal, they avail themselves of the opportunity of expressing their sincere and lasting gratitude to the many friends who have assisted them in the past, many of whom are now dead, but whose benefactions are daily remembered at the altar, and aleo twice each day in the prayers of the community. The new wing was solemnly blessed and opened on last Sunday by his Lordship Bishop Moore, who has approved of the appeal, and hopes that the many friends of the Redemptorist Fathers in Victoria and elsewhere will be only too glad of the occasion to testify their esteem by a generous response,