DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 2 December 1909, Page 1897

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

noi Yl_ hvoigqii wo\ io\ sfir ; y*or?p bus ari^issfo himnoi o* (By Telegraph from our own correspondent.) -The v mission-at -the-Cathedralj-conducted-by the Redemptorist Fathers, concluded last evening. Throughout it has been a great success, the attendance having kept confessionals untiFa "late hour.' At the 7* o'clock Mass on Sunday many hundreds.- reQehredr Holyf, Communion, and at the eight o'clock"" Mass f or^wcraferi l 6ver "sis'' hundred faction to all. At the eleven o'clock Mass there was^a croWjde<L congregation^ when , Rev v! Father, - Hunt, , delivered^ a fine/'discoift-se. >^fii rt the^aftternoon* 'CionfirmJitioir -wafe^ admmistereci '-tq j2§4j children and^adgltsi.T:-; li\ >the evening • the church was again filled. A recor"d~taken "showed " 1457Vifexi6nS. h f^d e'nteife'^j a 'M& firfrdship I']1 ' ] out the Rosary, after which^he -jtjiankejd-rthe, R.edemptoMst,Fathers for their laborious'^ ahu 1 ltighfy Jrv succ-egsful V'ork 1 during the past three weeks. All were%, y£ry>,deeply. indebted to them, and he hoped" to' see L them" bacfe° again before long. They regrQWifEa^erriOliaie'^'idi^arture. He was an ornament to his^iHustriQUs- Qrder TOr ,Whereyer he went he would be in their .-hearts and- kffecSons.^ Very Rev. Fathers £!lune preached, the closing seEmoii, takiug for his text, ff|||^e|MMfulf^to^|3iraaa»| vviarMylabfife^ the crow?f l o!-^fg. i '- fi "Ta% exliSrted^tllem ttftvoiof th*e SlfuYe-* ments-of -this- worlds and -to- live -so that at the -close of their earthly career they might die the death of the just, iialaWLfefi.f&ji eyeflSsYin|Afiap^rness|'| He bade a touching farewell ttfsth^Bfsifopi pHests ,aifd4?eop^e, and spoke under o£fivi^<=&ty'em:ot:£on. qsaJßwtsQw&Qroy&s deeply' grateful to his Lordship, and,ikefei^iss.oßal]s Iftasauiiderj a deep obligation SiMP^*^^ Father Holbrook he was also lnovecrted. After many years of close friendship he DW^nion^paftib-uMrly^iiluckland, with the keenest^ B h^4g^een hills and valley s I would find«ip£p'lilcS» M eMg'sßearl^G'Snd in his Masses ariS -prayers— he~would~always~Temember - them. This morning TCaj S^flemi^lteaui^lfM^Bs ,fopi tb:ei'|repose of the souls of deceased relatives of those who attended the mission was te Sb SrlHi*^^^^^ 1 F* L l :^f^ e l )ra fi t > Fathers Wright ' lan^ siradeaffdh respectqxe^K^lThree