DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 6, 5 February 1903, Page 19

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

Holy Cross College, Mosgiel will re-open after vacation on Saturday, February 14th. There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday from last Mam until Vespers. la the evening the usual procession was held, in whioh the ohildren of the parish schools and the members of the Sacred Heart Society took part. Daring the absence of the clergy of the Cathedral parish at the retreat the Rev. Father Ganly, of tit. Kilda, Melbourne, attended to the parochial duties. On Saturday Father Ganly left for Milton, where he was the guest of the Very Rev. Father O'Neill, and en Monday he proceeded to the Bluff to catch the steamer for Melbourne. The retreat of the olerjjy of the diocese of Dunedin was concluded oq Friday morning. The clergy present expressed themselves in very oomplimeutary terms regarding the maoner in whioh it was condaoted by the Very Rev. Father Le Menant dea Cbesnais, V.G., Chrtatchuroh, who was thanked on their behalf by the Right Rev. Mgr. Mackay. The Diocesan Synod, whioh was preceded by the Mass of the Holy Ghost, presided over by his Lordship Bishop Verdon, was held on Friday at the conclusion of the retreat. As we go to press the annual outing of the children of the Catholic schools of Dunedin is being held on the Caledonian Grounds at Outram. The children, to the number of several hundreds, and a large party of adults proceeded to Outram toy special train at 9.25 a.m., many also going by the ordinary train, which left a few minutes earlier. The outing was organised by an energetic committee., who had made every arrangement to insure its success. A number of ladies had rendered valuable assistance by procuring prizes for the various competitions. A report of the proceedings will appear in our next issue. The visit of the Rev. Father Ganly, who said both Masses here on Sunday, and also gave Benediction and preached in the evening (writes our Milton correspondent), proved to be a regular red-letter «'»y for the Irish Catholics of the district. Father Ganly's morning sermons were both given as usual in English, but from the numerous illustrations and ouotations ie l'i&h with which it was enriched, it was evident that the preacher was proficient in the old tongue, and a large congregation assembled in the evening, many of whom had come long distances for the express purpose of having a chat with the visitor in Irish. The whole of the Rosary, from start to finish was recited in Gaelic, and it was worth going miles to hear the hearty, spirited, united way in which the large congregation rolled out their response in Irish. Then, to the great delight of the congregation, Father Ganly preached in Irish, and, though it is 14 years since he delivered a sermon in anything but English, he spoke with such clearness and fluency that his Irish hearers assured your correspondent they had not the slightest difficulty in following' every word. For the benefit of any present, who. as Father Ganly pointedly put it, might have the misfortune not to understand (Irish, he translated his remarks into English, and the sermon proved to be a pointed, pithy. and forcible exposition of the Sacraments and of some of the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith. After the service the old people ' foregathered ' in force and revelled in the luxury of being able to talk unlimited Irish with the genial and gifted priest. The service in Irish had apparently been as keenly enjoyed by the preacher as by his hearers, and Father Ganly expressed himself as greatly pleased with the spontaneous and spirited wa<y in which young and old had given their response. He was also surprised and delighted to find, in this apparently out-of-the-way part of the Colony, such a laige number of people who loved and spoke the old tongue, and he declared he would carry away with him very happy recollections of the good time he had had \*ith the Irish men and women of Milton. Tt is hoped that on some future holiday Father Ganly will be able to pay us another visit, and will make a longer stay among his Irish friends than was possible to him on this occasion.

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