N.Z. FEDERATION

New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1920, Page 39

N.Z. FEDERATION

I ' - -« (Contributed.) . J ..: General.--Ail parish secretaries are earnestly requested to forward local items of interest to their diocesan sec- - retaries for publication r'Tt'" is very 'important that ; parish secretaries should note this. It will be the means of showing the members of the ■Federation i what you j are doing, and create a livelier interest in Federation work. I Parents will notice in this column a few of the very many problems"' that are -"engaging-the earnest "attention; of the diocesan, councils and parish committees. _-„. Many have probably felt the lack-of help in these matters. This shows how necessary it is that you become a member and enrol your a children. The Federation is out to help you and your children to become good Catholics and Christians, and be a credit to your Church and country. Surely no Catholic layman, much less any of our priests, can fail to support an organisation, such as the Catholic Federation, that has both the spiritual and temporal welfare of its members so much at heart.. We need the help and advice of every priest in every parish in New Zealand. n j 1 We ask the Catholics of New Zealand to give us something in returnifor our work. ; Remember, we give, our time arid attention to laboring in your interests. Will you not become a member and show that you are not ungrateful for our assistance Help us, by becoming a member, to help you and your children. . W*% >. § We wish to point out to committees that there is a movement afoot to have; the law changed so that we shall have to pay rates on-our schools. 'Does not this show you the need for unity and your becoming a member? i Wellington.-—At the half-yearly meeting of the Wellington Diocesan Council the . following resolution on a remit from Napier was carried unanimously: —"That the regulation by which two .scholarships are to be awarded triennially be altered to allow of one scholarship being awarded-annually."' :;• '■•■' - -- > *, ■

i Now .; that there is a scholarship awarded every | year, it should be every child's aim to work for it. They should start immediately. Make enquiries from your parish secretary. Get your parents to join the Federation and to enrol you. This will result in increased funds, which will enable us to grant more scholarships. Remember, by becoming a member you help the fund. ... ::-..; Committees will remember the movement .inaugurated in October, 1918, ■ to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of his Grace Archbishop O'Shea. . .-The, Federation desired to take its' place in expressing it's 'jeaniest"?; support .of the movement, and decided to present his Grace with a Pectoral Cross oh behalf of thei;. members of the Federation in the archdiocese, : in appreciation of the generous and consistent support given to the organisation by his Grace. The celebration had to be postponed ioh account of the outbreak off influenza shortly afterwards. Members will be pleased to learn that the cross was publicly presented to his Grace at* St. Joseph's Church the occasion of the farewell to the parish priest some little time. ago. \ Christchurch. —The Very Rev. . Dean Rognault presided at St.. Mary's Parish Committeef meeting on the"last" Sunday in March. The Rev. Father Roche and a large number of parishioners were present. The meeting was addressed by the diocesan secretary, who gave a very interesting account of matters now engaging the attention of the executive. Parish committee's were circularised appealing for a special effort to,enrol the "go slow" parishioners so as to make the year a record one. The members of j the executive • have generously offered their services to parish committees to give lectures in . the various parishes with a view to increasing membership in the Federation. Parish committees should not fail to take advantage of this offer of the executive, and thus ensure the joining 'of all parishioners ;in the Federation and the .fostering of a, livelier interest in Federation work. It is desirable to introduce , a system whereby -people, removing from-one parish to another may provided with a letter of ntroduction to the priest in charge or the parish secretary. The clergy recognise that, owing |to the lack of some such system, a number of otir people, especially the younger ones, who leave home .to take employment in the larger towns, . drift into lukewarmness :! and 3 endanger their faith. If this system were adopted by the Federation as a whole it would ; prove a great boon to persons who : find it necessary to remove a r strange -parish, ; and J would be the means of- placing them in a Catholic atmosphere. Remember- Federation Sunday,- 1 July 4. Write for receipt books/ s etc;, none, on hand. ! : : ya.?.s.&^^ r x '