DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 4 January 1917, Page 35

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

,~— ' - ' The Rev. Father Langley, C SS.R , who is-giving : the retreat to the Sisters of 'Mercy, South i Dunedin, - '-":i preached *in St., Patrick's Basilica on last j Sunday night. The Little Sisters of the Poor, Anderson's Bay; desire to thank Mr. Adams and friends of the Water- , T i' side Workers, Port Chalmers, who generously contributed £9 . towards a Christmas and New Year's 1; treat for the old people in the Home at Anderson's Bay. x . The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. Spiers;. '-■ 1 Kurow, will regret: to learn of the death; in action of/; 1 ;" * their son James. Corporal James Spiers was edu- '. cated in St. Patrick's School, Oamaru. On leaving ■; •" ; school he entered :? into the service of the New" Zealand Insurance Co;, Oamaru. He was a first-class tennis and hockey player, and was very popular: amongst the '' young folk. He left New Zealand with-the 14th Reinforcements, and was reported killed in action on December 10.—R.1.P. The Very Rev. Father Lockington, S.Y., who is engaged this week in giving a retreat to the Dominican ".' --' Nuns, preached;:, to a very large . coiigregatioin in St.Joseph's Cathedral on last Sunday night. The subject of v the: , sermon, which was 'speciallydirected to our Catholic .mothers/. : was sorrow. ' and its lessons: In beautifully descriptive language ' . the j : Very Rev. Father eloquently ' dealt with the lessons in sorrow taught by the present war, aud '*■ concluded by stating if nations, which were led away from God 'by the infidel teaching of recent years, were brought back the conversion niust come through Catholic mothers, who themselves will have to learn at \ the shrine of sorrow, 'where> they shall find seated the- '■■ noblest type of womanhood/ the t- Mother of Sorrows. ' %