EUCHARIST CONGRESS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 252, 16 June 1932, Page 3

EUCHARIST CONGRESS

DUBLIN ENTHU SI ASTIC ALLY MAKES PREPAR ATION S FOR VISITORS. FIFTY-FIVE AORES PREPARED. DUBLIN, Monday. Many foreign bishops and priests, notably Americans, have cancelled their visit to the Eucharistic Congress on account of world-wide depression. Nevertheless, Dublin is enthusiastically c.ompleting its arrangements in anticipation of 1,000,000 Irish alone attending. Fifty-five acres of grassland in Phoenix Park are being prepared, with accommodation for every parish in Ireland. A high altar for Pontifical High Mass, with a great brass dome flanked with long arcades for prelates and distinguished visitors, is almost ready. Decoration of the processional routes has begun, and triumphal arches of papier maehe resemhling stone are being erected. ' . The Australian group's meetings are being held in All Hallows College, Drumcondra, which has sent hundreds of priests and missionaries throughout the world, many of whom will meet again at the Congress. Rev. Eris O'Brien, of Sydney, will ■ read a paper on the Eucharist in early Australian history, and Rev. Moynihan, of Melbourne, a. paper on the Mass and Viaticum in the Australian bush. 1 The only woman speaker at the ■ Congress will be an Australian, Sister ■ Anselm, on the Eucharist and coming j generations.