HIS GRACE ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD

New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1912, Page 35

HIS GRACE ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD

SILVER JUBILEE (From our own correspondent.) - * • , . * April 20. A meeting of Catholics from the various city parishes- was held in St. Patrick’s Hall last night to consider what steps should be taken to celebrate the silver jubilee of his Grace Archbishop Redwood’s elevation to the archbishopric, which will be on 13th May next. The chair was occupied by the Very Rev. Father U Sfiea, Vicar-General, and there was a large attendance, including a considerable number of ladies. In opening the proceedings Father O’Shea said that an episcopal silver jubilee was a very great event not only in the life of the prelate who celebrated- it! but also in the history of the diocese over which he presided. The -clergy of the archdiocese met last week and considered what should be done to celebrate the occasion in a fitting manner, and they decided to have Pontifical High Mass, and some other functions, and also to present his Grace with an address and a purse of sovereigns. The question arose ts to what the laity would do and it was suggested that it . would not be prudent for them to make any monetary nresentatiou fiom the whole of the archdiocese which would interfere with the vigorous canvass which is to be made during the next two years for the Cathedral funda project very dear to his Grace. The'chairman went on’to say that the occasion was unique. It would be the first occasion on which an archiepiscopal jubilee of any prelate had been celebrated. During the quarter of a century that was )ust ending the Church had made eater ogress in New Zealand ’ than perhaps 'in any previous period, and therefore the occasion was one which they could celebrate with every feeling of pride and.in the manner they thought best. g S that flf 7 ReV ‘- Dean I ?®g naulfc J' S - M - (Provincial) said - fiat the occasion would be a unique one, not only in the history of the Catholic Church in New Zealand; but in the history of the Catholic world. He reminded his atwMch°hisr great %Eucharistic .Congress' at Montreal at which Jus Grace was present,; and of that memorable procession in honor of the Blessed Eucharist in which -m the practice of the Catholic Church-seniors take last place. His Grace held practicallv ffio V. ake

among the -Archbishops assembled, as he was the oldest Archbishop present. ; Not only that, his Grace was New Zealand's first Archbishop, therefore the occasion would be a most historical event in the history of the Church in this Dominion.

y J . Rev. Father James Goggan, S.M., who accompanied the Archbishop to Rome on the occasion of his Grace's elevation to the Archbishopric 25 years ago, made ; eulogistic references to the Archbishop's many good, qualities, and to the unique record reign of his Grace as Metropolitan of New Zealand. ;\ „■

\ C A committee of the laity was then set up, consisting of Colonel Collins (chairman), Mrs. Twohill, Miss K. Robinson, and Messrs. B. Doherty (treasurer), W. C. Gasquoine, 11. O'Leary, M. Kennedy, J. E. Fitzgerald, J. J. L. Bourke, F. K. Reeves, F. O'Neill, M. J. Hodgins, Hoskins, Healy, Lawlor, Kearns, and F. W. Ci'ombie (secretary). The committee met subsequently, and. decided to recommend, at a meeting to be held on Wednesday next, that his Grace be entertained at a conversazione in the Town Hall, and presented with an address and a purse of sovereigns.