DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 14 August 1913, Page 26

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph, from our own correspondent.) *.; ' . ,■.'";' , :''V" - : - ' '." : -;v'-'.' ■ ./■ August 11. , < Rev. Father Skinner, of Waiuku, addressed the meeting of ? the Holy Family confraternity last week and gave an interesting account of the spiritual and temporal progress of his parish. One of the Redemptorist Fathers will, in a few months' time, conduct a short mission for the members of the confraternity. Work is going on at present in enlarging the Sacred Heart Church, Ponsonby. The population of the parish has increased so much of late "that the work of enlarging the parish church has become an absolute necessity. . •' -.- • , A new branch of the Hibernian Society will shortly be opened at Te Awamutu, where the parish priest, Rev, Father Lynch, has the matter in hand. This will make the fifth branch opened during the present year in the Auckland province. \ - „ His Lordshig Bishop Cleary and the Right Rev. Mgr Brodie intend being preseh o at the consecration of the Most Rev. Dr. O'Shea, S.M., at Wellington on next Sunday. The district executive of the Hibernian Society will present an address from the society to the new Archbishop, and one of the executive officers, possibly Bro. Flynn (district president), will go down for the occasion. His Lordship Bishop Cleary leaves next Thursday via New Plymouth, and Monsignor Brodie goes by the express train on Friday. ;: The Very Rev. Father Ryan, S.J. arrived here on Sunday morning from Sydney, and in the evening at the Cathedral preached a fine sermon on the value of time. From wide experience and observations in his travels the learned Jesuit gave many illustrations of tow all classes of society abused God's great gift of time. Father Ryan, who is at present the guest of the clergy at the Cathedral presbytery, leaves in a few days for Wellington for the purpose of being present at the consecration of the Most Rev. Dr. O'Shea, S.M., as Coadjutor to his Grace Archbishop Redwood. '■'/ ' August 12. An interesting lecture on ' Lourdes' was given in St. Benedict's Hall by Rev. Father Forde on Monday

evening before a large attendance. The rev. lecturer dealt with the history .of Lourdes, gave an account of the many miracles that * had been wrought there, and explained how some of them had baffled medical science. The lecture was illustrated by '• a number of - excellent lantern slides, and was- followed with the keenest 1 interest. Musical items were rendered by Mesdames Hansen and Bourke, Miss Lorrigah, and Messrs. J. H. Egan and Bourke. Miss Armiger was accompanist, and Miss Lowry gave a number of pianoforte- selections. At the conclusion of the proceedings, a hearty vote of thanks was passed to the rev. lecturer. ' , V-• r