DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 19, 14 May 1908, Page 23

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) May 8. A most successful social, uiulor the auspices of the Catholic Young Men's Club of Onehunga, was held a few evenings ago in the local club rooms. It is very lively that on the Feast of Corpus Christi the Superior of the Redemptorist Order, Very Rev. Father Clune, will preach at the Cathedral. This year it is intended to ha\e a procession around the grounds of the Cathedral. At the Masses at the Cathedral last Sunday the clergy spoke earnes4ly in support of Ihe ' New Zealand Tablet,' whose representative, Mr. Moriarty, was in Auckland. It was urged that all should subscribe, and thus have in the family circle a healthy, wholesome, and thoroughly Cathol'x newspaper. His Eminence Cardinal Moran has notified his Lordship Dr. Lemhan of Ms intention to present to St. Patrick's Cathedral a beautiful monstrance to commemorate his memorable visit last February. The Bishop, priests, and people of the Cathedral parish will prize very Wigihly this generous gift from his Eminence. A controversy is going on in the morning paper as to whether New Zeailanders are becoming pagan. It arose over some remarks made in London by Bishop Neligan. Sir Robert Stout, who chanced to be here, entered the controversy. As to the propriety of our Chief Justice doing so is a matter of opinion. On Friday evening in the Royal Albert Hall a most successful social was given under the auspices of the Marist Brothers' Old Boys' Club. There were a great many present, and a very enjoyable time was spent. The net proceeds aro to be devoted to defrays

ing the cost of renovating and altering the- club's rooms,. ■ (From an occasional correspondent.) St. Mary's Convent Chapel was^the scene of a very «s^^ SiVe^ CB iS n i 01iy on Wedn^day, April 22, when 'three novices made itfoeir profession as Sisters of Mercy. Th.3 altar w a s tastefully deoqrated for the occasion • I n the absence of his Lordship Right Rev. Dr. Lenihan, n%^ em(m 7 - Was P 6rf o rmeia by the Right Rev. Mgr OReilly. An impressive sermon, appropriate t 0 the occasion, was preached by Very Rev. Father (Brodie, of WiwJm, who, while congratulating i.he Sisters on the steps they were taking, referred to the great work SreTd rf 7 +h n f Ste ?J n AucUan ' d - and the wonderful ffSr^ t, c °p r ' d^ of Merc^ throughout the world. A large number .of Mends «of the Sisters assembled to witness the ceremony, those of the clergy bein r R e v Fathers Holbrcok, Edge, Zaima, Bradley? O'DonSll and th°P P r,^ c . be i«t liful music was devoLionallv rendered by the Convent .chor, assisted by the Misses Lynch snd of making th.eir v o ws, were Sister M. Barbara Del*hunt. Muswellbrook . Sister M. Bonaventure Myall Malted and Sisber M. - Pallistus Mvnil M,iS' Alter the-ceromonv, the friends of the Sisters wire tertained at Jreakfw* by the Rev. Mother and Sisters and all joined In wishing the newly professed m^y years .to continue the noble work they had so «nS ously undertaken. ° & ener *