REQUIEM MASS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 27 November 1930, Page 7

REQUIEM MASS.

ate father gilbert. SLEBRATION AT ST. BEDE'S. iolemn Requiem Mass was celebrain the chapel of St. Bede's College trday morning in memory of the f Father 2'. A. Gilbert, Rector ot College. The acting-Rector, the . Father Burger, S.H., was the jbbiant, and he was assisted by the [v. father Blake, S.H, (St. Bede's If), and the Rov. Father G. Daly Kington). ■sent in the sanctuary were Hep Brodio, and the lie v. Fathers BiUbert, -M.S.C., MeMonagle, L. ■lt (Wellington), Riordan, S.-M-Ifci), 8. O'Connor, S.M., J. Culfj H.M., Scanlon, S.M., and O'Connor. The Rev. _ Father Dowling was master or cereliffl, and the cantors were the Father J. Hanrahan, and Father Jrim, S.M. Miss M. Ward was tiw organ. tilers present were relatives and I friends of Father Gilbort, reparatives of St. Bede's College Old 5* Association, the Sisters and iien of St. Joseph's School, Papathe boys of the College, and the am and staff of the College, i a brief address at the conclusion lie Mass, Bishop Brodie recalled fact that it was almost exactly «ar ago that Father Gilbert had id in the Sanctuary, where he was &ne now at the dedication of the (el, for which he had worked and «d with such great fervour. t B these dead lips could speak," I iiis Lordship, "they would tell tors to follow in the footsteps of nan, and to be grateful that God teat' His inspiration through him. peat work at St. Patrick's Colrtere, it is safe to say without ;of contradiction, he instilled a it of reverence and performed such u is not being surpassed any- " else in the world, followed by itenrs here, onlv urcre us to say iitaewed gratitude, 'Not unto ns, but unto Thy Name be the *:» b Bishop recalled Father Gilbert's St. Patrick's and St. Be-de's, for the Catholic Church as a > '• He had always been a source Wr and aid to those under hini> uout him, and now that he was tie Church and they all had suflaa irreparable loss. *ia the day the coffin was taken Cathedral, Barbadoes street. In a large congregation, includ•wher Gilbert's relatives, former *> jofl pergonal friends, assisted at *®Ution .of the Rosary, said by Father MeMonagle, AdminisPrayers for the Dead were Mg by Bishop Brodie and a choir 'Priests, led by the Rev. Father f 8.M., of Fairlie, who was f S associated with Father Gilbert Bede's College, and Father J. of Papanui. The clergy . "Winded Dean O'Donnell, of iB n ® r * Kennedy (Beckenham), W (South Canterbury), Father fi) " l?" nani )> Father Long (Greyer' A S 1 ® 1- Lordan (Kumara). », p„ Burger (Vice-Rector, St. M 2% e ), Fathers A. F. McDontW \pignan (St. Mary's), and f\ teaching staff of St,