Thames

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 08, 8 October 1908, Page 24

Thames

The many friends of the Right Rev. Mgr.- O'Reilly, V.F. (says the Waikato Independent of September 29) will be pleased to learn that he has almost recovered his health and strength after his protracted illness at the" Mater Hospital, where he has beer, ho kindly cared for by the Sisters of Mercy. He is at present on a visit to Cambridge. On Sunday last he celebrated Mass -at 8 a.m., and in the evening, after the Rosary, delivered a most eloquent and impressive discourse on the. feast .of the day, basing his remarks on the M:\ticnth- chapter of St. Matthew's (iospol. At the conclusion In: gave Benedictio lof the Blessed S-acra.-nenl, being assisted by Ihc Rev. Father Holbrook. 'During the week the Right Rev. Monsignor will visit many of his old friends, in the Waikato district, and hopes soon to be able to resume his pastoral charge at the Thames. Monsignor O'Reilly fn\st \isited Cambridge to administer to the Catholic-congregation in the year 1869. He next visited the town in 1872, and in 1876 he took part in the consecration- and dedication of. St. Pc-tcr's Church, Sunday last being the thirty-second anniversary of the opening of the church.