DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 31, Issue 44, 31 October 1907, Page 22

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

A number of the 'members of St. Joseph's -Ladies' Club received Holy Communion at the ,7.30 o'clock Mass at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday - mcKCniaig, and afterwards attended al St. Joseph's Hall, ; where the annual breakfast was helfl. A three weeks' mission, to be conducted by the Redemptorist Fathers, will be opened at the eleven o'clock Mass at St. Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday. Speaking at the nine o'clock Mass on Sunday the Key. Father CoGey, Adm., expressed the hope that, not -only all- present would attend the mission regularly, but would make it their business to induce lukewarm- and indifferent Catholics, with whom they were acquainted, to take advantage of that time of grace. The missions conducted in the Palmerston parish by Father Lowham, C.SS.K., came to a close on Wednesday evening of this week. The religious exercises began in Midcllemarcfi from Sunday, the, 6th, and ended on the following Thursday ; in Hyde they were" -continued horn the 10th to the la in ; in Macraes from the 14th to the 19Ih ; in Palmerston from Sunday, the 2,lst, till tne following Friday. The mission- opened in Hampden on last Sunday and closed, as stated above, on Wednesday evening. Throughout, the various exercises were very well attended, and the mission has been a conspicuous success.

TEe Redemptorist Fathers opened a mission at Tie r-Blufi on Monday last, and will be engaged in other parts of the Invercargill parish during the next three weeks. A mission opens in Waikouaiti on Friday, at Port Chalmers on Sunday, and at St. 'Leonards on Monday. The South Dunedin mission opens on Sunday, November 10, and closes on November iS4. The pupils of St. Joseph's Convent School, Port Chalmers, gave a dramatic entertainment before a packed audience in the Foresters' Hall on Friday evening. Many intending . patrons of the entertainment were, we understand, unable to secure admission, 'ihe children did remarkably well, and their perfoi'imance •was .-highly creditable io - the good Sisters, who must have devoted considerable time and attention to their training. The Rev. Father Hearn, who presided, thanked the audience for their attendance and the pupils for their successful performance.