Temuka

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 42, 17 October 1907, Page 24

Temuka

(From our own correspondent.) ' Oct. 8. • Rev. Father McDermott commenced a mission at Pleasant Point on Sunday. Very Rev. Father Clune left liere on Monday, for Kurow, where he opened a mission on Tuesday. The mission conducted by the Redemptorist Fathers was brought to a close in St. Joseph's Church on Sunday evening when the Very Rev. Father Clune preached. Ho spoke in glowing terms of the manner in which the Temuka people had taken advantage of the mission. It was a beautiful sight at the 8 o'clock Mass to see such a large number of men approach the .Holy Table, many of whom wer~ members of the Catholic Club. The members of the Confraternity of the Children of Mary, a society which has received a considerable accession of members .through the exertions of Father Clune, also received Holy Communion. In his farewell address, Father Clune exhorted- the congregation to keep faithful to the resolutions they had made {during* the mission. He tojok occasion to thank Father Kerley for inviting them to Temuka, the Sisters of St. Joseph -for decorating ths altars, the choir, the altar Y.oys. Rev. Father Kerley thanked Father Clune, and Father McDermott on behalf of- Father Goggan, the congregation, and himself, and congratulated them on the good work, they had done for the people of Temuka. . Oct. 13. Rev. Father Goggan returned to Temuka on Friday. from Hanmer Springs, where he has been for the last fortnight. A very successful mission preached by the Rev. Father McDermott, C.SS.R., .at Pleasant Point, was brought to a close en Sunday last. The weekly meeting of the Temuka Catholic Clvb 1 was held on Tuesday evening last, Mr. J. Barry presiding. The programme was a lecture by ,l>r. Crawshaw, who gave- a very interesting and instructive address on the heart. A.t the conclusion, he was accorded a.heapfcy -.vote, of thanks on the motion fit- Mr. T. K&ight, seconded by Mr. Z. Beji.. . — .— ,; . .-- - - ,i „ j