DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 17 December 1908, Page 14

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) December H._ The performance of the operetta, 'Princess Ju'Jti,' by St. Benedict's choir and friends at Avondale on last Wednesday was a most pronounced success. The public hall was crowded. The proceeds are to be devoted to the - local church in reduction of the ,debt .thereon. The annual entertainment by the pupils of the con- . vent' schools, Parnell, takes place this ..evening in St. Bonaventura's Hall. The members of the Marist Brothers' ; Old Boys' Club and of St. Benedict's Boys' Club have • promised to attend. Very Rev. Dean Gillan, V.G., is at present conduct,r ing a retreat at the Cathedral every evening of the week ,• for the confraternities of the Children of Mary and Guard of Honor. Benediction is given each evening. The retreat concludes on baturday morning with a general Communion. * ... Rev. Father Ormond, recently ordained in Rome for " this diocese, arrived' in Fremantle, en route for Auckland, in the.Omrah on, Thursday, December 3. He leaves Syd-f-ney.,on next Wednesday, and arrives.., here on the' Sunday He iniWes^port, and went" Home for study 'in August, 18971 Wince that time* lie has spent five years .in Thurles College and six years in Propaganda Gol- " leg'e," Rome: , -„, -^The Right Rev. Mgr.- O'Reilly, speaking at the Sacred •" Heart College 1 " prior 'to distributing the prizes, /said that - . he recollected _as far back, as 1858 visiting the spot whereon the present ' college was built:- ' " The estate was then known -as- that, of St. Joachim. . The students '-.fifty years ago - used, to journeyout >there for, recreation., "WKat a wonderful change was now wrought 1 -The whole locality was then •but a wilderness. :;.' He contrasted the .lot of- -the students then with the students of -to-day, and wondered how it was possible that the former- had .-.attained. to- the^positions tliey did. - How grateful and gratified they must all feel at the wonderful strides made I~ ' To the good Marist Brothers ~ a special debt of gratitude was due. One special feature • connected with their labors was the good position held by so many of their pupils throughout the Dominion. He - hoped ere long that this fine building, large as it was, would be totally inadequate to the needs of the staff and

to the' scholars, who, he hoped, would flock' to the ' Sacred : Heart College. Let them rally round the good Brothers.