DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 8 April 1920, Page 35

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) v ' -■ March 26. The Auckland subscribers of the Tablet would wish that a St. Patrick’s Day, or some such holy day, would occur in mid-week every week, to enable them to get the Tablet on the Friday of the week of publication, instead of, as not infrequently happens, the Monday or Tuesday of the following week. As it is, the paper arrives in Auckland on the Saturday morning. Any hitch in mail or train arrangements, or the arrival on that day of a ’Frisco or Vancouver mail, even of an hour’s delay, deprives us of our paper until Monday, and sometimes Tuesday. - His Lordship the Bishop is now enjoying fairly good health, and is thus enabled to resume the onerous duties of visitation of the diocese. Last week we chronicled the visit to the East Coast and Bay of Plenty districts by seaplane. On Sunday last the Bishop held a visitation of St. Benedict’s parish and administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to over a hundred children. During the week his Lordship paid a formal visit to St. Joseph’s parish—-Grey Lynn. He inspected each class in the school and addressed the children. He also expressed himself as well pleased with the progress being made in the reerection of the church. Wellsford, Kawhia, and other outdistricts will be visited by the Bishop very shortly. . The Pope’s appeal “to save the children” of Central Europe, and directions on same subject from the Apostolic Delegate, are being issued by his Lordship the Bishop to every parish in the diocese, with the request' that a special collection be ■ made on the first Sunday of May, or the nearest Sunday the Pope’s fund “for the alleviation of the extreme misery which the children of some regions of Central Europe are now suffering.” The arrangements for the carrying out of the solemn ceremonies of Holy Week at the Cathedral have been completed by the zealous administrator, Father Forde. The office of Tenebrae will be chanted on the Wednesday, Thursday, and Good Friday evenings at 7.30 o’clock. Solemn Pontifical Mass, consecration of the Holy Oils, and procession on Maundy Thursday at 7 a.m., Mass of the Pre-sanctified on Good Friday at 10 a.m., ceremonies on Holy Saturday at 7 a.m. Rev. Father Doyle (Remuera) will preach on Holy Thursday evening, his Lordship the Bishop will preach on the Passion on Good Friday night, and Right Rev. Mgr. Hackett, V.F., will preach on Easter Sunday night. There will be solemn Pontifical High Mass on Easter Sunday at 11 a.m. The movement for a grand bazaar and carnival, to be organised by the combined parishes of the city (five in all) in aid of the funds of these parishes, is gaining in favor. Preliminary arrangements have been made, and immediately after Easter the meeting will be held. Meanwhile, the Cathedral fete has been postponed to November next, and will in all probability merge into the larger scheme. Advice has been received by Mr. O. Hudson, the local representative of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London, that an exhibition scholarship has been awarded to Miss Thelma Gallagher, of Auckland, as the result of her examination last September by Mr. Howard Hadley, for licentiate solo performer (pianoforte). The scholarship is tenable at the Royal Academy of Music, London, ' for two years, with an extension to three years if the holder’s progress is satisfactory. Such a distinction has never before been awarded to any student examined at the Associated Board’s Auckland centre. Miss Gallagher is a pupil of Miss Cutts.