DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 14, 8 April 1909, Page 544

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph from our own correspondent.)

April 5. Palm Sunday was observed in all the city churches, a pleasing feature being the large numbers of -both sexes who wore palm during the day. His Eminence Cardinal Moran, in * writing "to his Lordship Dr. Lenihan thanking the Bishop for the handsome cross which the latter brought from Rome for his Eminence, said : 'It is one more link binding together the mother sees of Australasia. 3 Rev. Father Hegarty, of Queensland, is at present, visiting Auckland, and celebrated Mass at Newmarket last Sunday at St. Benedict's. At the eleven o'clock Mass a procession took place around and inside the church, the processionists bearing palms. - The sight was most edifying and devotional. The net result of the St. Patrick's Day celebration in Auckland amounted to £236. To this sum from time to time will be added contributions from parishes throughout the diocese. Helensville has already contributed £12 19s. The fund will be devoted to the schools of the diocese, an object which at once, enlists the support of every Catholic worthy of the name. On Wednesday evening last the prizes won at the St. ■ Patrick's Day sports were presented^ by his Lordship' the Bishop at the Marist Brothers' Schools, Hobson street. 4.. There was a very large attendance, and the proceedings were marked by the greatest enthusiasm. The Bishop thanked all connected with the' sports for the success achieved, and congratulated the successful competitors. His _ Lordship the Bishop accompanied by the Right 4 Rev. Mgr. Gillan, V.G., and Rev: Father Holbrook, visited Avondale last Tuesday morning to see for the first time the new church there, which had been erected during the Bishop's absence in Europe. His Lordship was greatly pleased -with the sacred edifice. The party- drove out in the new motor car which the Bishop purchased in Belfast. It is a fine car, and capable of holding five passengers. „ At the Cathedral on last evening his Lordship the Bishop explained from, the pulpit the meaning of Tenebrae, the music of which was sung by the choir. The music employed was- in use, he said, in the English College in Spain, at which the King and Queen of. Spam ' used to attend regularly in Holy Week. St. Patrick's choir was the only choir in Australasia, in' which it was used. The large congregation listened with much interest to his Lordship's explanatory remarks.