DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 35, 31 August 1905, Page 6

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our own correspondent.)

August 28. His Lordship the Bishop was on an episcopal visitation at Rangiora on Sunday. At Vespers m the Cathedral on Sunday evening 21 aspirants were received into the Confraternity of the Children of Mary by the Very Rev. Vicar-General (chaplain).

There was a meeting of the Cathedral choir after Vespers on Sunday, when proposals made by the conductor, Mr. 11. Rossiter, for greater regularity of attendance at practices and more systematic record of membership, were considered and adopted.

Before leaving the Burnham Industrial School last week his Lordship the Bishop expressed in the visitors' book his impressions of the institution, the pleasure exferienced by the visit, and the conduct of the boys ; and added that the motto evidently followed by the manager was 1 ' suaviter in modo, fortiter in re.'

Mass will be celebrated at the Church of Our Lady, Star of 1 the Sea, Sumner, on S,u<nday next at half-nast nine o'clock by the Rev. Father O'Connell. He will also attend there on the evening previous for the convenience of the Catholic residents who may be desirous of performing their religious duties. The Christian doctrine class, which numbers upwards of twenty children, will assemble on Sunday afternoon for instruction.