Taihape

New Zealand Tablet, 26 November 1908, Page 23

Taihape

(From an Occasional Correspondent.)

The Catholics of Taihape are busy preparing for a bazaar to be held in February of next year, in aid of the Presbytery debt extinction fund.

The Rev. Father O'Connell has returned to Wellington, after his missionary labors along the Main Trunk line. He gave very successful missions in Taihape, Mangaweka, Ohingaiti, Utiku, Mataroa, Raetihi, Ohakune, and Raurimu. "

The devotion of the Forty Hours' Adoration began at Mary's Church, Taihape, on Sunday/ November 15, and .ended en Tuesday morning- with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. On Sunday Mass at 11 o'clock was celebrated by Rev. Father, b'Connell, S.M. Masses were celebrated on Monday, and Tuesday at 6.30 and 8 o'clock respectively/ large congregations attending ; and also at the evening devotions. The Rev. Father O'Connell, S.M., preached on Sunday morning and evening, and also on Monday evening. In the course " of. his sermon on

Sunday morning the Rev. Father quoted from the message of the Holy Father to the members of the Eucharistic Congress, recently assembled in London. All Catholics were not privileged, he said, to join in that great celebration, but all could look upon the message of our Holy Father as a personal message urging Catholics to loyalty ,and love towards Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. The Forty Hours' Adoration might be looked upon 7 as a small Eucharistic Congress *n every parish in which it was held. Father O'Connell paid a tribute of praise to the members of the local branch of the Hibernian Society, who, wearing their regalia, kept up continual adoration. Large numbers received Holy Communion, and the devotion, held for the first time in Taihape, has been a source of great good to the parish, and of much consolation to the good Rev. Father Lacroix, S.M., oui parish priest. The altar was beautifully decorated by Missas McLaughlan and Thurston, and the choir, under MY. Allen Viclcers, rendered the music of the Mass in an admirable manner.