HOME OF COMPASSION ISLAND BAY, WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 51, 23 December 1925, Page 21

HOME OF COMPASSION ISLAND BAY, WELLINGTON.

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, was fittingly celebrated at the Home of Compassion, Island Bay; Father Joyce, S.M., celebrated a Missa Cantata at 9 o’clock. The children’s choir sang sweetly the “Missa de Angelis.” At 2 o’clock there was a procession of the Sisters and children to the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. Appropriate hymns were sung and the rosary recited to and from the grotto. At 3 o’clock his Grace Archbishop Redwood arrived to administer the Sacrament of Confirmation to about 15 children of the Home, among whom were some incurables who were Confirmed lying in their wheel chairs. His Grace reminded the children that on December 8, 71 years ago, he left New Zealand to study for the priesthood, and.asked them

to pray for him in thanksgiving to God for th« ; many graces i« had received. The ceremony ended with Benediction of tho Most Blessed Sacrament, and so concluded a happy feast day for the community and inmates of the Home.,