DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6, 6 February 1908, Page 22

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The parish sohools re-opened on Monday, last.i^ In a private letter the Ver,y Rev. Dean ".Burke states that he will be back in Invercargill early ,in March."' On Sunday there was Exposition of the (Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph's Cathedral from last Mass until Vespers. In the evening there was the usual procession in which the various confraternities took part. > Fathers O'Brien, Howell, and Mclnerney (S.J.-);-- all of Victoria, returned by the « Warrimoo ' .on Monday., Among the visitors from Victoria who arrived in Dun~ ec?in this week were the Very Rev. Fathers O'Connell (Carlton), Hearn, S.J., and O'Connell (diocese of Sandhurst). Fathers Goggan, S.M. (Temukay and Price; (Ha* warden) were also in Dunedin during the week. We understand there is to be a change in the staff of the Christian Brothers' School. Brother Moore late of Sydney, takes tb!e place' of Brother Ryan^ who Has

3>een assigned important worjc connected with the Provincial Novitiate.; On Friday of last week his Lordship the Bishop administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 39 candidates at Allanton, at the close of the mission which' was conducted by the .Rev. Father Campbell, C.SS.R. Father Campbell is conducting a mission this week at Mosgiel, . and Fathers' Creagh and McDermott at Wrey's Bush. On Thursday of last week the inmates of the St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage, South Dunedin, went for a picnic to the College, Mosgiel, at the invitation of his Lordship the Bishop. The children, who were in charge of thp Sisters, snrnt a ve'rv enioyable time in the line grounds of th<* OoHege, and 'did ample justice to the good things thoughtfully provided for them by the Bishop. The annual picnic of the children attending Ihe (.atholic schools in Duedin and suburbs took place at ■Waitati on Wednesday. The children, accompanied *by their parents, the local clergy, and the picnic committee, left for Waitati shortly before ten o'clock by- a train consisting of nineteen carriages. The attendance was vprv large. Among those present was the Very Rev. Father O'Connell, Victoria. ' The Rev. Father Hunt, C.SS.R., concluded Ihe mission- in Ranfurly on last Sunday. The missions both in Nasefay and Ranfurly were very well attended and crowned wilh most gratifying success. Father Hunt is now conducting th° ' annual retreat of the Little Sisters of thp Poor, Arde'son's Bny, Dnnpdin. Father Del?nv hns charge of the Ranfurly parish during the absence of Father MacMull^n. who left iherp on" Monday for a trin lo TCurone. (A report of his departure appears in another column). Murh rep-mi was exn r pss^d whpn tfm news (thouch not im-xnectpd^ reached Dun^d : n- that Sister MaryTtiilli Hughes, O.S.D , had passed a way at thp CJonvpnt n upeTist^wn. on Tn*>pda^ mo-nin"- .of this wpe-V. The. d<ecßPS-.d relinrioMs WflS in thft Bnfh ye^ r of her pee anfl th- 17-f* of h-r rp^ionq For several years shp had sufferpd from pulmonary consumption hut oh earth her days were length^d hy the fine 'climite of I'ueenstown andi the tender and assiduous care of her Pisters in religion. She rorp h-r long illne^ with admirable pnti"TT*> pnd nietv, awl hex r.as*arr e into pt^rnitv was briffh^n-d by the administration of the last Sacmments.— R.T.P. +i °" ,X uesdav Olf last weeV a social was given by Father o Donnpll to the Catholics of Arrowtown in the J athohc school, m order to celebrate the ■ extinction of Jhe debt on the local church property. We learn that a laige body of the Parishioners assembled and a very enlorable social evrning was snent. Amongst tbe toasts honored on th» occp«?ion was +hnt of the finp old nn a thohc Pioneers of the 'district md of Fathter O'Donnpll who wnT ™ T% T - m X^ tp ° f T ' ralse for "is worth' and ;isi+or from, Victona) w-rp also honored. a -d t^ ,. Wn - m- passed erimvablv amidst sonnr and snepch. and recii"ir for tbo.' r i n Arrowtown The l-dip s fWP!ire told^ d?-d excllrnt worlc in connection with the KOCI3I. |