DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, 15 October 1908, Page 24

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.)

October 12. The Very Rev. Dr. Kennedy is on a brief visit to^Hanmer for health purposes. The Rev. Father Hoare, S.M., of St. Mary's, Christchurch North, assisted at the Cathedral on Sunday.

Permission has been kindly granted" to the promoters of the combined Catholic excursion and outing on December 26 for the use of the.Riccarton racecourse ana* properties of the Canterbury Jockey Club for the occasion. The committee,' of which the Very Rev. Father Price, Adm., is chairman, are busily engaged in arranging details, and a meeting of ladies willing to assist is convened for this week.

The devotions for the month ■of the Holy Rosary are being observed in the customary manner, and with, the ; edifying cooperation of the faithful. Addressing the 'congregation in the Cathedral on Sunday, the Very Rev. Father Price spoke of the devotion of the as a sublime and beautiful practice of our religion. He instanced how the faith was preserved in the penal days in Ireland, for after everything else was taken from the persecuted people, the Rosary still remained, and. was • handed down from .generation to generation. The mention of the Month of the Holy Rosary . reminds us that it was on Rosary Sunday, iB6O, that the first Catholic Church erected in . Canterbury was opened. Thus, the first Sunday of October, 19 10, will be the jubilee of this historical occasion. The tenth annual meeting of the Ashburton Catholic Club (states the Lyttelton Times) was held on Tuesday eveinng, .Mr. D. - McDonald-, in the chair. The balance sheet showed that the receipts had exceeded the expenditure by .£9 us 7d, and the assets exceeded the liabilities by 19s ?d. Officers were elected as follows : — President, Mr. T. Brophy ; vice-president, Mr. J. Murphy; secretary, Mr. J. A. Lennon; treasurer, Mr. E. Hanrahan ; librarian, Mr. W. Lennon ; committee — Messrs. D. McDonald, S. Madden, Brophy, F. Pritchard, and J. Hannigan.'