ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 8, 21 February 1924, Page 25

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

February 15. With the jubilee so near and visiting prelates arriving day by day it is hopeless to get anything down except jubilee notes. For the out-dwellers who do not see the Wellington papers, and who would be grateful to hear the details of the preparations, it may be as well to summarise a little. There will be in Wellington in jubilee week the greatest assemblage of prelates ever known in Australasia. His Grace is a much-travelled figure and ho has made many friendships in the neighboring continent. The flocking hither of so many distinguished guests is due not only to their desire to honor the oldest living prelate in the Catholic Hierarchy, but to the love they bear him, who all his life has never known malice and has always wished men well. And so they come —from Queensland, from West Australia, from Samoa even, to be present at the celebrations. The celebrations themselves commence at 10 o’clock on the Sunday of the 24th. The High Mass will be sung by Archbishop Redwood himself. The Most Rev. Dr. Chine, C.SS.R., Archbishop of Perth, will preach the sermon. . In the Basilica itself there will be only 500 seats left over after the bishops and clergy have been accommodated, and these will be occupied by representatives elected from the various parishes. After the Mass an official luncheon will be held in St. Francis’s Hall, and at 3 o’clock the great procession of the Catholic body will take place. The order of the procession will be: —Band, Students of St. Patrick’s College, Children of Catholic Schools, Children of Mary (in regalia), Marist Brothers’ Old Boys, Catholic Laity, Hibernian Societies,\Catholic Clergy, Bishops, Archbishops, his Grace Archbishop Redwood. The route will be from the Basilica to St. Patrick’s College. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will take place there in the open air at an altar erected before the college. As the college is situated on a rise the ceremony should be visible to the thousands of worshippers below. A band, stationed halfway up the drive, will play the Benediction music. Everyone remembers the old wooden building facing the drive. This has been demolished to provide room for a band rotunda. Special evening devotions will be hold in all the Catholic churches of the city. The chief ceremony will be at St. Mary of the Angels’, Bouleott Street, at 7 p.m. His Grace Archbishop Redwood will attend. The sermon will be preached by Archbishop Duhig, of Brisbane. A solemn Fe Deum will be sung by a special choir recruited from the choirs of the city and suburbs under the conductorship of'Signor Truda, assisted by Rev. Father Ryan, S.M., of St. Patrick’s College. Monday will be a day of pleasure—a motor trip to W aikanae over Paekakariki Hill for the visitors —is the programme. On Tuesday night at the Town Hall addresses from the Hierarchy of Australia, from the clergy of the Archdiocese, and from the Catholic laity will be presented. A special Jubilee Hymn composed by Miss Eileen Duggan and set to music by the city organiser (Mr. Bernard Page) will be sung by the great choir. At 3 p.m. on Wednesday the children will assemble to present an address. Items will bo rendered by a chorus of boys and girls. The celebrations will conclude with aconversazione at 8 p.m. Among the performers will be Miss Mary McKeowen, Mr. C. Hickmott, and Mr. P Fitzgerald, The list of visiting prelates and prominent ecclesiastics is as follows: —His Excellency Archbishop Cattaneo, Apostolic delegate to. Australia; Archbishop Kelly, of Sydney Archbishop Mannix (Melbourne), Archbishop Spence (Adelaide), Archbishop Clime (Perth, W.A.), Archbishop Duhig

(Brisbane), Archbishop Barry (Coadjutor of Hobart), Archbishop Sheehan (Coadjutor of Sydney), Archbishop O’Shea, S.M. (Coadjutor of Wellington), Bishop Darnand, S.M. (Samoa), Bishop Shicl (Rockhampton), Bishop O’Farrell (Bathurst), Bishop R. Dwyer (Wagga Wagga), Bishop J. Dwyer (Maitland), Bishop O’Connor (Armidale), Bishop McCarthy (Sandhurst), Bishop Foley (Ballarat), Bishop Hayden (Wilcannia-Forbes), Bishop Cleary (Auckland), Bishop Brodie (Christchurch), Bishop Whyte (Dunedin), Bishop Liston (Coadjutor of Auckland), Monsignor Byrne, V.G. (Brisbane), Monsignor Power (Hawera), Monsignor Cahill (Auckland), Monsignor Ormond (Auckland), Monsignor McKenna, V.G. (Masterton), Monsignor Mackay, V.G. (Oamaru), Very Rev. Father Sullivan, S.J. (Provincial of the Jesuit Fathers in. Australia), Very Rev. Father O’Reilly, S.M. (Provincial of the Marist Fathers in New Zealand).