St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 19

St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby

(From an occasional correspondent:) :" "•-■'■' "On Tuesday, - April 9, at St. M a -y v s Convent/Ponsonfoy, the ceremony of profession took place Nine young la-dies made their' vo^'s, f.and . were admitted" as members of the Sisterhood' of Mercy,; ' The names of the novices were :— Sister M. Dympna "Madden (Blenhei'inO, Sister M. Calasanctius G alien (Australia) -• SisV ear- M. Josepha McCab© (Parnell),.. Sister M ' Cyril S^ n (Australia), Sister ' M. "Casiinir- Price '(Ausirfalii-) . Sister M.- Elizabeth Shine (Australia); ' Sister >M. Paul" ma Wilkinson- (Australia), : Sister- ~M., Dolores Purteli (Auckland), Sister M. Euphrasia.Mulqueeny (Cctromaii- ?%!,-• «s« s - , Lordsh iP Lishop . Lenihan- received the' vows, or the bisters, and ipreaiched .an eloquent sermon' on the religious -life: 'Rev. Father Molldv celebrated Mass, Rniviif n n- g7 ft^ 1 - 1 w t re : ~ Rev - Fathers Holbr6ok, Buckley, Duffy, Williams, Murphy, and Sheridan The convent choir, assisted " -by the Misses- Lynch Whitsled, Jones, ' and Kelly, sang the music of the' Mass' cwJL re S ret _ rtor t0 reco^ me death of., a -venerable Sister, of -Mercy at St. Mary's ■ Convent, Ponsonfoy. ihe deceased religious (a sister of the l a te Mr. JQaniel Kvn f°t l^ a p l ' c , alul p onsonby.),wasborn in County' Tyrone, Ireland, and was in her -eighty-second year-at the time of her /death, and. had, spent 'over, forty-six yeais mi the convent at Ponspnby. She endeared fier- • self to young and-' old by her charitable ' and gentle disposition She was attended in her last illnesf by V C ?wfn 1P ?"•• A enih ' an ' Very Rev - Pather Lilian! V. Or. (who administered, all the rites' of the ChurchY celebr b /f ft H ReV ' J^ mm ° U<>y - A' Requiem' Mass Ss her sou?-R.I.P dneSl(ias ' J Mm * for the ', r of