DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 16, 23 April 1908, Page 23

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

A meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Society will be held on Friday afternoon.

• The opening meeting of St. Joseph's Men's Club for the current season takes place in St. Joseph's Hall on Friday evening. - * " The new church at Te Tua, in the Riverton parish which is to be dedicated to St. Joseph, will be blessed and opened on May 10.

Mrs. Jackson, president of the ladies' branch of the m .V. V , llxc ? n i de . Paul Soci ety, has been appointed an official visitor to the female department of the prison Dunedin. ■ '

The good results of the mission at St. Joseph's Cathedral were seen on Easter Sunday morning: when unusually large numbers approached the Holy Table at the early Masses, this being particularly the case at 7.30 o'clock, when nearly the whole of a crowded congregation of the men of the parish received Holy Communion.

The missions conducted by the Redemptorist Fathers throughout the diocese of Dunedin for the past six months, with a short 'interval at Christmas, were concluded on Sunday, when the closing ceremonies took place at St. Joseph's Cathedral, St. Patrick's Basilica (feoutfo Duned-m), and St. Mary's Church (Port Chalmers) . ,„ .p\ Ringing the mission to a close at St. Joseph's 1 on Suntla y evening Rev. Father ÜbS.R. earnestly exhorted the men of the congregation to join one or more of the confraternities 'or societies connected with the parish, such as the Sacred Heart Society* the Hibernian Society, the Catholic Men s Club, and the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

On Tuesday evening last the Children of -Mary held their annual social at St. Joseph's schoolroom, when advantage was taken of the occasion to present their late president, Miss Falkner, with a silver cake-basket in connection with her approaching marriage. The president (Miss Heley) presided, and the following; clergy S er^^T r T nt ;~ Rev ' Fathers Coffey, O'Reilly, Corcoran, P. O'Neill Lowhair., C.SS.R., and Creagh, C.SS.R The Rev Father Coffey, in making the presentation! spoke of the recipient's many good qualities, and of the great interest always taken by her in the sodality Vocal l.terns were given during the evening by Misses Treston, Brady, Rodgers, Tarleton, Murphy, Leybur, and Heley. Miss Parker played the accompaniments!

At St. Joseph's Cathedral on Easter Sunday there were the usual early Masses, .and Solemn High Mass at eleven o'clock, which was celebrated by the Rev Father Corcoran, Rev. Father Cleary deacon, Key' Father Lowham, C.SS.R., subdeacon, and Re v . Father Coney, Adm., master of ceremonies. ihe occasional sermon was preached by the Rev. Father McDermott, U.bb.R. The music of the Mass, Gounod's No. 3, was excellently rendered by the choir, Mr. Vallis presiding at the organ. The decorations, which were confined to 'the high altar, were in excellent taste, and reflected great credit on the ladies responsible for the work. At laree o'clock there w a s Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament for the women of the parish, and' in the evening the dosing exercises of the mission for the men, took place. The Rev. Father lowham preached a very impressive discourse dealing with the means to be adopted to avoid sin and ■ preserve the fruits of the- mission-. The ceremonies concluded with the Papal blessing.

The renewal mission for the men of the parish was continued during the week at St. Joseph's, Cathedral On Thursday evening the sermon on the Blessed Eucharist was preached by the Rev. Father Lowham C.SS.R. On Good Friday the Mass of the Presanc-' titled was celebrated at niaie o'clock by the Very Rev Mgr. O'Leary (Lawrence); Rev. Father O'Reilly deacon] Rev. Father Corcoran sub deacon, atad' Rev. Father Coffey, Adm., master of ceremonies. ' The Cantors of the Passion were the Rev. Fathers Cleary, Liston, and O'Reilly: The music of ' the Mass was sung by ' the choir of the Dominican' nuns. The " occasional sermem

SS^KES?* 1 H7H 7 the Rev ' Father Lowham, -O-.SSTR: In the pJS? « n i, the +h Wa^ th l-df v o^^ of the Stations of JStJ^ \ S the explariaUry discourses -wei«- d«li-' vered by the Rev* Father McDermott, C.SS.R : The mission sermon In the. evening was Reached by ihe Stls S?f h??^ Oa Hol y Saturday SolemnHdgh SL Z fl'^f I '^ by Rev. Father Cleary, Rev. L J Z OReilly deacon, Key. father OonJoran' subdeacon, and Rev. " Father Coffey, Adm., master of ceremonaes. » .'-•;. .-