CHURCH OF ST. ROCH. HANMER SPRINGS

New Zealand Tablet, 30 October 1919, Page 19

CHURCH OF ST. ROCH. HANMER SPRINGS

The long-looked-for blessing of peace came to us well nigh 12 months ago, November, 1918. For more than four years the angel of death brought his message to thousands of homes. Thousands of our boys are buried in many lands. Their priests, careless of danger, stood by them, and through their ministrations prepared them to face death fearlessly. .The blood of priests and boys flowed in the same stream, their last remains rest in the same grave. Their memory shall never die. The last words of St. Monica to her son St. Augustine would be, if possible, their last words to us: "Bury my body anywhere; I desire nothing but a remembrance at the altar of God." I promise, each time I stand at God's altar in the Church of St. Roch during 1919 and 1920, to offer up the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for all your friends who have died as a result of the war and the epidemic, also all your intentions. I beg to acknowledge the following donations, for which I am very grateful:—£2 each, Miss De Troy (McKenzie), trustees late Duncan Rutherford; £1 each, Miss E. Orange (McMaster Street, Invercargill), Miss E. Furlong (Greymouth), Miss J. Heffernan (Greymouth), Grateful Client (Dunedin), Miss B. Corcoran (Harapepa); 15s, Three Grateful Sisters (Ashburton) ; 10s each, Mrs. Rowe (Hotel, Ranfurly), Reg. No. 23, Ist Battalion (Wellington), B. Haughey (Marshland), Mary McCarthy (Ngaere, Taranaki), Mrs. M. Coffey (St. Bathans), Mrs. John Stack (Lyalldale, St. Andrews), Miss Annie Fowler (Greymouth), Mr. John Boyle (Heddon Bush), Mrs. Traynor, Miss Foster, Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Heath (Wyndham), Gratitude (Waiau), J. Fennell (Hawera),. Mr. and Mrs. Rohan (Orawia, Southland), Mrs. C. Angus, Miss Sheedy, Mrs. A. E. Martin (Greymouth), A Friend (Makikihi) ; 7s 6d, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss McLaughin (322 Rattray Street, Dunedin) ; 5s each, Mr. Markham (McKenzie), M. Cleary (Waimate), L. Kane (Studholme Junction), Client of the Sacred Heart* (Wellington), Miss M- E. Clarke (30 Wilson Road, Geraldine), Friend (Waitahuna), John Dwyer (St. Bathans), Client of St. Roch (Winton); 2s 6d, Mrs. S. Tohill (322 Rattray Street, Dunedin). Are you a client of St. Roch? I want thousands to join. Your names are to be placed in the Church of St. Roch. All donations will be acknowledged in the Tablet. — Yours very gratefully, Rev. J. P. O'Connor, Hawarden, Canterbury.. HA WARDEN PARISH. * | Masses as follows: November I—Hawarden,1 —Hawarden, 9 o'clock. November 2 —Culverden, 9; Waiau, 11; Hanmer Springs, evening devotions, 6.30. November 3 (All Souls' Day) Hanmer, 7 o'clock, and at the same hour every morning during the;" week. November 9Hawarden, 9; Brackenbridge, 11. November 16Cheviot, 11. November 23 Brackenbridge, -9;vHawarden,' 11. November Culverden 9; Hanmer Springy ilft ■-:.; ■-..'- ■<o< \--W- M *'U^Vz£-J??.:'~" % * '*& i« -.a J. P. O'Connor. ::''.y.