DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 24 September 1908, Page 19

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph from our own correspondent:) _„ , September 21. Right Rev. Mgr. O'Reilly leaves next Wednesday on a short visit (0 Waikato. " - , Rev. Father O'Brien, C.SS.R., arrived from Wellington yesterday morning and preached an impressive sermon at the Cathedral in the evening. The Vicar-General will in the near future open a church at laumaru.ui, now nearing completion. This, is an -entirely new parish, to which Rev. Father Molloy has been appointed. ... , At , St< Bent -' dict '* « >horl mission will commenced on Wednesday, September 30, preparatory to the, feast of thS Holy Rosary. Rev. Father Tigar, 0.P., conducts the mission, and preaches each evening. " At the Sacred Heart Church, Tonsonby, at 10 o'clbck on Sunday last, High Mass was celebrated: 1 The choir '- was conducted by Mr. Percy Kehoe", of the Bland Hole Company Gounod s Messe Solennelle. was beautifully rendered. There was a -large congregation. A large and successful meeting was held last evening after Vespers at Ailsa House, which was presided over by Rev. "Father Weaghur, when arrangements were completed for the annual social in connection with the Cathedral parish, which takes place rext Wednesday evening. It p.omises to be highly successful. The Very Rev. Dean .GHlan, V.G., left for Gisborne on last 1 hursday to open a new church in that parish. He expects to be absent for a fortnight. On his return he will attend the opening ot a church at .ivondale, tyhcre a meeting was. held on Sunday afternoon, when the parishioners' had explained to "them the cost of the erection of the building and' all details connected therewith. ' 'io»