DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, 26 June 1919, Page 22

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.) .Time 23. On Wednesday evening- last a novena, preparatory to the consecration of the parish to the Sacred Heart, which will take place on Sunday, was commenced in the Cathedral by Fathers Langley and Kilbride, C.SS.R. The exercises, similar to those of a mission, are being well attended. On Sunday evening, when Father Langley preached on the obligation of hearingMass, the congregation was exceedingly large. The devotion of the Forty Hours' Adoration began on Sunday after High Mass 'in the Cathedral and will be continued until Tuesday night. Miss Ward is acting temporarily as organist at the Cathedral. Father Leen, pastor of Lincoln, who has not been enjoying, good health of late, is being relieved by Father Fogarty. The Catholic Girls' Club social, held in the Hibernian Hall on last Thursday evening, was largely attended and proved most enjoyable. The foundations for the new Catholic girls' school buildings are now well advanced. On making the necessary excavations, the soil formation proved to be excellently suited to the purposes of building. Solemn consecration of St. Mary's, parish. to the Sacred Heart will take place on Sunday next. The sermon, special to the occasion, will be preached by Father O'Leary, Marist Missioner. • v On last Sunday morning at the 9.30 Mass, some 50 children attending the Convent Schools made their First Holy Communion. The First Communicants were afterwards entertained to breakfast by their teachers, the Sisters of the Mission. .'...!;.

There was First Communion „of the children at St. Agnes’s Church, Halswell, on Sunday last, and at the Sacred Heart Church, Addington, on the Feast of Corpus Christi. A

..A Arrangements for the Grand Victory . Fair, to be held in August, are well advanced. Committees and stall-holders are working energetically, and the executive, presided• over by Messrs. J. R. Hayward- and T. Cahill, is > holding meetings weekly. - Valuable prizes have been I secured for- the- art union, fox- which books of tickets .are in wide circulation: 11 ■ V