Palmerston North

New Zealand Tablet, 10 March 1910, Page 379

Palmerston North

(From our own correspondent.) March 6. The committees are hard at work with programmes of the national concert and social for St. Patrick’s Night, and everything points to a successful gathering. The novena begun in St. Patrick’s parish on Friday, the 25th ult., for the repose of the soul of the late Bishop of Auckland terminated to-day, when an unusually large number, of the faithful approached the Holy Table at the 7.30 and 9 o’clock Masses. Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament began at the close of the 11 o’clock Mass and was continued until Vespers. In the evening there was the usual procession. A meeting of the boys of the parish between the ages of twelve and twenty, under the auspices of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, took place in the library on Sunday evening, and proved a great success; An apology was received from Rev. Father Costello, who was unavoidably absent, giving his sanction and hearty approval to the undertaking. The Rev. Fathers Connolly and Queally and Sub-Inspector J. O’Donovan addressed the meeting at length. ' Some fifty names were-handed in together .with twenty-five boys present. It was decided to inaugurate a boys’ guild of the Sacred Heart Society, to include all who had left school between the ages mentioned, those present being enrolled as members, and every ten boys to have a member of the St. Vincent .de Paul Society to look after them, from which great work may be expected if backed up by the parents. • " ’ ” 1 ■