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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 15

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(By telegraph from our own correspondent.) \ -•-" ' On Sunday, there was Exposition" of the. _- Blessed . Sacrament from the last Mass until Vespers. Sixtynine children made their First Communion -in St. Patrick's Church at the seven o'clock Mass, and afterwards had breakfast in the Foresters' Hall, and were waited on by their parents and friends. They assembled again in the Church in the afternoon for Adoration, and" were present in the evening for Benediction, and the renewal of baptismal vows. A procession of the Blessed Sacrament took place, in< whichl the confraternities of the children of Mary, and the children who made their First Com- ; munion took part. The Very^ .Rev. ' Dr. Kennedy, of Meanee,' preached an eloquent sermon on the baptismal 'vows. Between sixty and seventy children, who were trained by Mr. O'Connor, sang the music of. the first Mass. ,