DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 23 December 1909, Page 2013

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph from our own correspondent.) The Holy Family Confraternity meets in the Cathedral every Tuesday evening. Rev. Father Ormond on the last two evenings lectured on the Catacombs. To-morrow ni^ht the discourse will be on St. Francis Xavier. &

His Lordship the Bishop, accompanied by Rev. Father Holbrook and Rev. Brother George, left on Saturday by motor car for Te Awamutu, over one hundred miles frojn Auckland, and were met on arrival by the Rev. Father Lynch and the parish committee. On Sunday morning the new church was solemnly dedicated at 11 o'clock. Before the ceremony began his Lordship explained to the assemblage the meaning of the ceremony, and at its conclusion Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Holbrook. A special choir from the surrounding parishes sang appropriate music. The occasional sermon was preached by his Lordship. The Bishop administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to twenty candidates. Rev. Father Lynch, on behalf of himself and of his parishioners, presented the Bishop with an address of welcome and purse of sovereigns. Mr. Warren is the architect of the new church, which cost over £300. The parishioners were fortunate in securing four acres of land at a cost of £200. While "there his Lordship was the guest of Mr. g and Mrs. Jackson. ' A social gathering of the Marist Brothers' Old Boys' Club was held to-night in the club room. There were present his Lordship the Bishop, Rev. Fathers Edge, Holbrook, Wright, Doyle, Williams, Carran, and Rev. Brother George, A presentation of a- purse of sovereigns to Mr. Cyril Mahon, who has resigned the hon. secretaryship of the club, was made by the Bishop, who eulogised the services of Mr. Mahon. Rev. Fathers Holbrook, Edge, Brennan, Brother George, and others also bore testimony to the good work done by the retiring secretary. Mr. Mahon replied, and said that to have merited the esteem of Bishop' priests, and members was . sufficient recompense for all he had done for the club. Another presentation was made by his Lordship to Mr. McCabe, on the occasion of his marriage. A fine musical programme was gone through Mr, P. Clarke, musical director, acting as accompanist.