The Maori Mission

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 52, 24 December 1903, Page 3

The Maori Mission

We have been requested to publish the following! communication from the Very Rev. Dean Ligfatheart, Superior of the Maori Missions in the diocese of Auckland :— To the benefactors of the Maori Mission. My dear friends, Having once more arrived in Maoriland proper after my long journey throughout New Zealand, I beg to express my sincere thanks to all those who have taken a practical interest in the Mapri Mission, and, in the name of all the Fathers of St. Joseph's Society, I wish the friends and benefactors of our work a Merry, Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. Remember, my tnends, that though I have made a beginning, there remains an immense amount to be done on the Maori Mission and that I solicit your assistance for some time to come. All donations, bte they ever so small, will be most welcome. I woudd particularly request those persons whose wprldly enterprises in New Zealand have been blessed and who feel inclined to leave legacies for religious and charitable purposes not to forget the very deserving Mission among the native race in the diocese of Auckland. Surely, if your substance was gained and your fortune made in the land of the difsky native of New Zealand, who but he has a right to some consideration from your charitable intentions ? Or, again, think of those noble and heroic Fathers who have made and are still making soich great sacrifices with no other object in view than the welfare of your own forgotten fellow-citizens. For temporal reward the priest on the Maori Mission cannot look. His; vocation is unquestionably a most disinterested one. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is celebrated daily for the intentions of the benefactors, whilst they will also have a share in the prayers and devotions of the Fair

hers and their spiritual children. Praying, them, that many, it not all, of my newly-made friends may continue to assist us, I remain, Yours very gratefully in the S. Heart, A. LIGHTHEART, ___^_________ Rotorua.