ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5, 1 February 1906, Page 5

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.) January 27. The new Convent of the Sacred Heart at island Bay will be publicly opened on Sunday week, and will be ready to receive pupils next month. The convent schools are to re-open on Monday next. Owing to the annual retreat of the Marist Brothers now being conducted in Christchurch, the Boulcott street school will not re-open until the following week. The annual retreat for the clergy of the archdiocese will begin at St. Patrick's College on Wednesday, February ?, and Conclude on the following Monday, when the annual Synod will take place. The retreat will be pleached by the Rev. Father Cleary, C.SS.R. The Aery Rev. Father Lewis, V.G., has gone to Fcilding, . wheic he is to open the new convent erected there lor the Sisters of St. Joseph. The foundation stone ot this convent was laid some time ago by his Grace the Archbishop. The following pupils from St. Patrick's College were successful m the Junior Civil Service examination: B. Kelly, R. Hill, T. Boyce, A. Cullen, G. Miller, 11. Seymour, J. Duggan, T. Walshe, F. Kelly, P. Kavanagh, R. Miller, and L. Chapman. The fust two pupils gained forty-fouith and fifty-third place respectively for the whole Colony. The new home of the Rcdemptorist Order here and thu head house for New Zealand occupies a very prominent site overlooking Oriental Bay, and commanding the Aery best view in the city. The present house consists of seventeen rooms, and the grounds are a little more than an acre and a half in extent. The reverend Fathers took up their quarters in their new home on Tuesday last, and on Wednesday his Grace the Archbishop blessed the building, and celebrated the first Mass in the little chapel that will be used until other arrangements for this purpose are made. On week days Mass will be celebrated at 7 a.m. and on Sundays ,at 7 and 9 a.m., with devotions at 4 p.m. The place has been named St. Gerard, after a lay Brother of the Order. The Order has, in consequence of their purchase, incurred a heavy debt, and further liabilities will also have to be faced in the near future. The work of the Order is one that strongly commends itself to the Catholics of New Zealand, and the Redemptorist Fathers may rely on generous assistance.