DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 10 December 1914, Page 26

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph, from our own correspondent.) December 7. His Lordship Bishop Carroll, of Lismore, New South Wales, is at Rotorua at present. The Devonport parish, under Rev. Father Furlong, has contributed to the Belgian relief fund £35 ss. His Lordship the Bishop, after an absence in the south of many months, in which he has been fighting Bible-in-Schools Leaguers, is expected to ' return to Auckland this week. The juvenile branch of the Hibernian Society met in the Hibernian Hall on last Friday evening, when there was a large attendance. Bro. Woodley presided. Rev. Brother Phelan, Superior of the Marist Brothers, attended. Eleven new candidates were elected by ballot. The lads entered heartily into the proceedings, and took much delight in the conduct of the business. The annual examinations of the Marist Brothers’ School, Vermont street, have been magnificently successful. In the Sixth Standard the passes were one hundred per cent. The thanks of the executive of the Catholic Association have. been voted to Mr, Frank Doyle, Ponsonby, for his indefatigable efforts on behalf of the school, in which the Brothers and pupils heartily join. t Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament took place from last Mass "till Vespers in the Cathedral on Sunclay. Members of the confraternities, of the Children of .Mary, Guard of Honor, apd Holy Family in turn watched before the Blessed Sacrament in relays during the afternoon and evening. In the evening Rev. Father Ormond preached on our Lady. A procession followed, in which the confraternities and children took' part. Four of the Marist Brothers bore the canopy, under V ...

which Monsignor Brodie carried the Sacred Host, Rev. Fathers Duffy and -Forrestal acted as deacon and subdeacon respectively. There was a large congregation. The mission for men of St. Benedict’s, conducted by Rev. Father Kelly, C.SS.R., concluded last evening. It was a pronounced success. Every morning and evening throughout the week large numbers responded to the appeal of the missioner,, who in • powerful exhortations stirred the congregations. Over two hundred men, exclusive off boys, approached the Holy Table on Sunday morning. In the evening the mission concluded, when the Papal blessing was bestowed by Rev. Father Kelly. This morning he commenced a mission to the confraternities and women of the parish. In St. Benedict’s this morning a large attendance rewarded Father Kelly’s invitation.