DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, 11 January 1917, Page 35

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

There was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Joseph's Cathedral on last Sunday and procession round the Cathedral on Sunday night. The Very Rev. W. J. Locking ton, S.J., left Dunedin by the second express on Tuesday. lie leaves New Zealand for Sydney to-day (Thursday). The annual retreat for the clergy of the diocese of Dunedin will commence in Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, on Monday, January 22, and will be conducted by the Very Rev. Father Boylan, S.J. The Mass for the Mouth's Mind for the late Monsignor O'Leary will bo celebrated in the College Chapel on Tuesday morning, January 23. There was an exceptionally large attendance at the last meeting of St. Joseph's Ladies Club, held in St. Joseph's Hall on Wednesday evening of last week. Rev. Father Corcoran presided. Advantage was taken of the occasion to present pocket wallets to Privates J. Stapleton, J. Sweeney, L. Graham, and J. Tarleton, who were on final leave, prior to their departure for the front. In making the presentations, Rev. Father Corcoran paid a high tribute to the worth and patriotic spirit of the recipients, and wished them good luck and a safe return to New Zealand. Private Stapleton suitably replied on behalf of his comrades and himself. A choice programme was contributed to by the following:—Misses E. Murphy, A. Mahoney, Cassidy (2), and Private Sweeney (songs), Miss L. Foster (recitation). In St. Joseph's Cathedral on last Sunday night the Very Rev. Father Lockington, S.J., preached an eloquent sermon to a very large congregation on the present-day need of good, strong, independent Catholic

men who-;could become fearless leaders of their fellow, men. He pointed out that the battle to be fought by our- Catholic men to-day'was more exacting and' required finer -, qualities than the battles fought by the martyrs of old, as -it .was : a -comparatively; easy <" thing, - assisted by Divine grace, to make the supreme sacrifice 1 for a. cause ; which stood near to the ; heart, while it > is : an extremely : difficult thing, 1 demanding the finest virtues, to make a consistent stand against the- spirit of lindifferehtism and carelessness which : are taught by the world to-day. He illustrated his subject by ; telling examples drawn from the history of past times and from the ; present war. ; - ' - - On Tuesday, .January 9, St. Dominic's Priory, Dunedin, was the scene of a solemn and - impressive ceremony, when ; three young ladies pronounced their final vows, while three aspirants to the * religious state were clothed in the white habit of'St. Dominic. The newly professed were —Sister " Mary Petronilla Sloane, Sister Mary Charles Borromeo Venning, and Sister Mary Celestine Radford. The postulants received; were Miss Margaret Croker, Limerick, Ireland (in religion, Sister Mary Etlma) • Miss Gertrude Spillane, Limerick (in religion, Sister Mary Lawrence) ; and Miss May Carrick; Wellington (in religion, Sister Mary John Evangelist). The ceremony was performed bv his Lordship Bishop Verdon, assisted by Rev. Fathers Kavanagh and A. Venning, S.M., Wellington, while Very Rev. Father Coffey, Adm., and Rev. Father Corcoran were present in the sanctuary. The solemn music incidental'to the occasion was rendered in a devotional manner by the Dominican Nuns' Choir. The ceremony concluded with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, after which the visitors were entertained by the Sisters in the spacious hall adjoining the chapel. - r * ■■''••'