Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 25, 25 June 1908, Page 15

Timaru

(From Our Own Correspondent.) June 22. His Lordship Bishop Grimes made a visitation of Fairlie and Albury on Sunday, June 14, Pleasant Point on the following Thursday, and Temuka yesterday. His Lordship administered the Sacrament of Confirmation at the last-men-tioned place. Owing to the unfavourable weather the usual procession of Corpus Christi, which was to have been held in the Convent Grounds on Thursday last, had to be postponed till Sunday. This delay necessitated a double preparation, but the devotion of the good Sisters was more than equal to the emergency, and the always beautiful grounds looked their very best on Sunday afternoon.. The route taken by the procession, round the south side of the grounds, then a wide sweep of the front lawn, and back to the chapel by the eastern door, was splendidly decorated with garlands of flowers, and marked off by lines of Tibbons. At intervals wayside shrines were erected with devotional and artistic effect. By the time the procession started from the chapel there must have been upwards of a thousand people on the grounds. After the cross-bearer marched the school boys, under the charge of the Marist Brothers, then the school girls next the pupils of the Convent, and then the Blessed Sacrament borne under a canopy by Rev. Father Tubman. The Risters of the Sacred Heart followed, and then the general congregation. One halt was made at a temporary altar erected at the main entrance of the building, and the concluding portion of the Benediction service was gone through. Here the scene was most impressive. The members of tha Sacred Heart parish are privileged at being allowed to take part in such an exhibition of piety and faith.