Palmerston North

New Zealand Tablet, 14 December 1911, Page 2536

Palmerston North

(From our own correspondent.) December 10. After the 11 o’clock Mass on Sunday there was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until the evening devotions, .when the usual procession took place. The annual retreat of the Children of Mary began in St. Patrick’s Church on last Tuesday night, and terminated this morning with a general Communion at the 7:30 o'clock Mass. The Rev. Father Costello preached the retreat. The Rev. Father Joseph Herring, who was ordained to the priesthood on December 4, celebrated his first public Mass in St. Patrick’s Church this morning. - ... « He preached on the Blessed Virgin to a very large congregation in the evening, after which the whole of the congregation approached the altar rails and received his blessing.