Wanganui

New Zealand Tablet, 26 January 1911, Page 149

Wanganui

(From our own correspondent.) There was a crowded congregation at St. Mary’s Church on Monday evening, January 16, when four postulants were received into the Order of St. Joseph. Their names were Miss Josephine Maud Lloyd, daughter of Mr. T. Lloyd barrister (in religion, Sister Hyacinth), Miss Hudson (Sister MGc ri SS n at , l eon T Cooper, Feilding (Sister Benignus) and Miss Lily Parker, Lyttelton (Sister Claver). The ceremony was performed by his Grace Archbishop Redwood assisted by Rev.. Fathers Moloney and Barra, and the beautiful music incidental to the ceremony was entirely Ere? ,b at a the°Ro of j ? x” 8 ’ t | le - ‘ 0 Paris’ and ‘ Tantum Jtrgo, at tlie Benediction, being a rare musical treat. His Grace the Archbishop addressed the novices, and charged them to remember that in putting off the worldly dress and donning the convent garb they bade good-bye to all worldly tiatp ß nf r fin 1VGS ’ ctc i‘, They , were going to enter a novitiate of holiness and became brides of the divine Lord a id His Church. They cut all attachments of the world and

now took the vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. They were entering the school of perfection, like the lives of the holy angels, rich in the wealth of virtue, love, and chastity, and were now the brides of Jesus Christ. There were fully eighty nuns present, this convent being the mother house of the Order. After the Benediction there was a reception at the convent, where the Sisters entertained his Grace and the clergy at supper. The annual retreat for the nuns was this year conducted by Rev. Father Creagh, C.SB.R.