DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 15, 10 April 1902, Page 19

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

A week's mission was commenced on Sunday in the Catholic Church. Port Chalmers, by the Very Rev. Father Boyle, CM. There were large congregations both morning and evening.

The Rev. Father McCarthy, C.M., opened a week's mission in the Sacred Heart Church, North East Valley, on Sunday morning. Large congregations were present at the services on Sunday, and also during the week.

His Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Verdon will hold a visitation at Invercargill on Sunday, when the Sacrament of Confirmation will be administered. During the following week his Lordship will administer Confirmation in the out lying districts.

On Sunday there was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Joseph's Cathedral from the 11 o'clock Mass until Vespers. In the procession which was held in the evening the children of the parish schools and the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart, to the number of nearly 150, took pare.

During the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday the members of the Confraternity of Perpetual Adoration were present in large numbers, as many as one hundred at a time. Many members alpo pay visits to the Cathedral during the week. The Confraternity bids fair to become one of the most successful societies in connection with the Cathedral parish.