DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 18, 1 May 1902, Page 19

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN.

There will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday from the 11 o'clock Mass until. Vespers. The usual procession will take place in the evening. His Lordship Bishop Verdon administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to over 200 children at St. Patrick's Basilica, Oamarn, on Sunday. On Friday evening a social and musical entertainment will be given in St. Joseph's Hall in aid of the South Dunedin Literary Club's piano fund. The object is a necessary one towards materially assisting the club in the success of the forthcoming winter session, and will no doubt be well patronised. The Superior-General of the Irish Chrifctian Brothers has addressed a letter to the Christian Brothers' pupils throughout the world on the subject of the new novitiate and training college now in course of erection in Dublin. The Superior invites the pupils of each country to provide a prize for the monster bazaar to be held in 1003. In the course of his letter he points out that the benefits from the new building will be world-wide as the bulk of the Irish Christian Brothers throughout the world receive their training in Dublin. The new Catholic Church at Cardrona will be solemnly blessed and opened on Sunday, May 11. The occasional sermon will be by a distinguished preacher, and there will be special music appropriate to the solemn occasion. The new church is a very handsome building, and is one of which the pabtor, the Rev. Father J. O'Donnell. and the Catholic* of the district may be proud, as it is a practical proof of their faith and generosity. The interior has been well fitted up, and the furnishing is complete in every detail. The Very Rev. Father Boyle and the Rev. Fathers Henry, McCarthy, and McEnroe, who had been engaged in giving missions in variouß parts of the diocese of Dunedin for some months, left for the north by the Waikare on Tuesday afternoon. Before leturning to Sydney th^y intend to spend a short time at Rotorua. The local clergy and a number of the laity went down by train to Port Chalmers to fee them off by the steamer During the time they have been in the diocese of Dunedin the Vincentian Fathers have done an ire ilculable amount of good, their zeal and earnestness being productive of gie^t spiritual benefit to the people among whom they labored. A very pleasant evening was spent on Monday last in St. Joseph's Hall when a miscellaneous entertainment was given in aid of the home for the aged poor. There was a large attendance, and the efforts of those who had the arranging of ttie entertainment met with well-deserved succrsa. To Miss Staunton in an especial manner praise is due, a^ she was mainly icspousible for the getting up of the programme. The items set down for the musical part of the programme were well received, songs being contributed by Misses Anthony. Meenan. Davig. and Mr T. Anthony; and instrumental music by Mrs Butler. Miss DuggaD. and Mr Myles.