The Marist Fathers

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 14, 22 April 1925, Page 29

The Marist Fathers

CHANGES IN ORGANISATION. A change (says the Catholic Press) has lately taken place here in the organisation of the Society of Mary, The Australian, houses of the Marist Fathers, which up to this day were attached to the Province of the Missions, are now united to the New Zealand Province. Therefore, the St. Patrick's and Villa Maria parishes in Sydney, the Blessed Chanel Seminary in Mittagong, and the Gladstone parish in Queensland non - come under the authority of the Very Rev. Father C. O’Reilly, S.M., formerly Provincial of New Zealand, and now Provincial for the whole of New Zealand and Australia. A home missionary house and the new Lismore college will soon be added to the present activities of the Marist Fathers in Australia, and will be, it is hoped, only the beginning of further Marist activities in this, the Australian field of the Lord’s vineyard. Although the Villa. Maria parish is thus passing on to the re-organised Province of New Zealand and Australia, the old house, with the land attached to it, remains property of the Marist Missions. The Marist Missionaries, working in the South Sea. Islands, will still find there a peaceful resting homo, whenever they need a change from their tropical and malaria-infested isles; and they will continue going there also for. their second novitiate. The Very Rev. Father E. Courtais, S.M., who had been away to France on a rest trip, and has just returned to Sydney, has been appointed Visitor - of the Marist Missions, and will have his residence at Villa Maria; of which house he will at the same time bo local superior.