DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, 25 January 1917, Page 36

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The Very Rev. Father Boylan, S.J„ Prefect of Studies in Kew College, Melbourne, is engaged this week in giving a retreat in Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, to the priests of . the diocese. ■ • ~ A meeting of the committee of the Catholic Federation was held in St. Joseph’s Hall on Sunday night to make final arrangements for the Catholic schools’ picnic, which is to be held at Evansdale on Wednesday, February 7. All the details are well in hand, and given a fine day the picnic this year should prove a great success. In the matriculation results- just published the three candidates from the Christian Brothers’ School succeeded as follows: — C. O. Woods, matriculation, solicitor s general knowledge, medical preliminary; S. A. Spain, matriculation, solicitor’s general knowledge, medical preliminary; J. J. Noonan, partial pass. The school will re-open on Monday, January 29. A Pontifical Requiem High Mass for the Month’s Mind of the late Monsignor O’Leary was celebrated in Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, on Tuesday morning. His Lordship the Bishop was celebrant, Right Rev. Mgr. Mackay assistant priest, Rev. Father Delany deacon, Rev.- Father Kaveney subdeacon, Very Rev. Father Coffey, Adm., master of ceremonies. The solemn music was sung by a choir of the priests of the diocese. The parish schools will re-open on Monday, January 29. His Lordship the Bishop, in announcing the reopening of the schools at the nine o’clock Mass at St. Joseph s Cathedral last Sunday, stronglv urged on the parents the necessity of sending their" children to the Catholic schools and seeing that they attended regularly throughout the year, as only by regularly attending could the children do justice to themselves, to the class, and to the devoted teachers. News has been received by Mr. L. Clancey, 27 -Neville street, Caversham, that his son, Lieutenant William Sarsfield Clancey, has been awarded the Military Medal and received his commission for conspicuous services on the Somme battlefield. Lieutenant Clancey left with the Main Body, was all through the Gallipoli campaign (during which he was wounded slightly), and has been in France since the New Zealand troops first went there. He is an ex-pupil of the Christian Brothers’ School, Dunedin. At the devotions in the Cathedral on Sunday nmht Rev. - Father Gondringer, S.M., St. Patrick’s College’ Wellington, preached a very earnest and practical sermon on the indefectibility of the Church, pointing out how she came victorious through all the battles waged against her for the past 2000 years. And no matter what prophesies or predictions will be falsified by this present world struggle, and many of them will be falsified, of one thing we may be absolutely certain, that the Church will come through it all better known’ better loved, and better respected than ever before. A most enjoyable day’s outing was given to the children of the South Dunedin Orphanage on Tuesday, January 16. The St. Patrick’s Conference of the St! Vincent de Paul Society, assisted by Catholic and nonCatholic friends of the orphans, arranged for drags to convey the children to Wairongoa, where the grounds had been placed at their disposal by Messrs. Thomson Bros. The day was beautifully fine and the children passed the time in games and other amusements. A plentiful luncheon was provided, and an abundance of sweets and toys helped to make the day a very happy one for the little ones.