NEW St JOSEPH'S CONVENT TO BE OPENED ON SUNDAY

Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 59, 29 July 1965, Page 1

NEW St JOSEPH'S CONVENT TO BE OPENED ON SUNDAY

The new St. Joseph's Catholic Convent, in Opepe Street, will be officially opened and blessed by Archbishop J. M. Elston, Auckland, on Sunday. A traditional Maori welcome will be given to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Nazareth on the church grounds. This will symbolise the historic occasion of the arrival of the Sisters in St. Patrick's parish to start a school of religion and music for the benefit of parishioners, including those at Reporoa, Wairakei and Mokai. A centre and sub-centres will be set up to provide facilities for all the children to benefit by this new approach to religious instruction. The children will continue to attend the public schools and arrangements are made to provide religious education on weekends and after school hours. The order of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Nazareth was founded in Bathurst in 1880. The mother house

for the Sisters in New Zealand is the Sacred Heart Convent, Wanganui. The order was founded by the Rev. Father Julian Woods for the religious and secular education of children and the visitation of the poor and sick in their homes and in hospital. The Sisters conduct primary and secondary schools in the city and country districts and take Christian doctrine classes in country centres and State institutions. Archbishop Liston will be accompanied by the Most Rev. R. J. Delargey, who was consecrated in 1958 as auxiliary bishop to Rev. Liston. Bishop Delargey will administer confirmation to 82 children at the 11 a.m. mass on the same day. Among visiting clergy will be the Very Rev. Father G. Aarts, superior of the Mill HUI Fathers in the Auckland diocese and the superior general of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Rev. Mother Adrian, will represent the Order in Taupo.