R.C. Mission Services

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2109, 4 June 1898, Page 2

R.C. Mission Services

To-morrow, at St. Joseph’s Church, masses will be celebrated by Father Ginatyi:‘at 9 and 11, o’clock in the morning. There will also be service in the evening at 7 o’clock. Daring the week the mission services will be continued. Every momiag at 9 O’clock there will be a special service for children, ' and in the evening—at 7 o’clock—a mission service to which all ate invited.

There are few people in New Zealand who take an interest in philanthropic work who have not heard of the Mount Magdala Magdalen Asylum. The Very Kev Father Ginaty, its founder and presiding genius, has taken good care of that. The humanitarian enthusiasm which led him to give up his secure position as Missionary Rector of the large parish of Christchurch in order to embark on what appeared to be a hopeless undertaking has overcome' difficulties that seemed insuperable. Father Ginaty, in the course of his clerical duties, had been so deeply impressed by the need of some agency for the rescue of fallen women, that he threw the whole of his superabundant energies into the movement, with such good result that already £30,000 have been spent in buildings and land at Mount about five mile 3 from Christchurch, and under his fostering care, aided by the Order of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, one of the noblest philanthropic institutions in the colony has sprung into existence. There are now 130 inmates in this refuge for fallen sisters, but hund#ds have passed through it to lead lives of virtue. 4 The institution is open to women who stand in need of hand, irrespective of creed, and its inmates have come from all parts of the colony. The system pursued is one which provides for healthy work, and an extensive laundry has been established in connection with the institution.

Father Giua'y is now* in Te Aroha for the purpose of enlisting public sympathy in the institution.