DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1913, Page 35

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The annual collection on behalf of the St. Vincent do Paul Society takes place on Sunday at St. Joseph’s Cathedral. It is to bo hoped there will be a generous response, as the society is doing excellent work. A number of children from the Catholic "schools of the city and suburbs were taken down the Harbor on Saturday and Monday to see H.M.S. New Zealand. Among those who visited the battleship on Saturday were a number of Catholic pupils from Lawrence, Alexandra, Milton, Mosgiel, and Port Chalmers.

On Sunday there was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph's Cathedral from the last Mass until after Vespers, when there was the usual procession in which the parish societies took part.

An entertainment in aid of the furnishing fund of one of the stalls at the forthcoming bazaar will be held in the Garrison Hall on Monday evening, June 23. Among those who have promised their services are some of the leading, vocalists in Dunedin. .

Master Cyril Hastings, Christian Brothers’ School, Dunedin, was the winner of the first of three book prizes offered by the Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Company, for essays by ; primary school children who participated in the excursions to Lyttelton to see H.M.S. New Zealand.

A Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of Bishop Moran was celebrated in St. Joseph’s Cathedral on Tuesday. His Lordship Bishop Verdon was celebrant, Rev. Rather Coffey, Adm., assistant priest, Rev. Father Corcoran deacon, Rev. Father Kavanagh subdeacon, and Rev. Father Buckley master of ceremonies. ■

On Sunday evening the Children of Mary, South Dunedin, marked the close of the month of May by a. procession in honor of the Blessed Virgin. The socialists, headed by their president (Miss Long), carrying the banner of the Immaculate Conception, walked -from' St. Patrick’s School, through the presbytery grounds, and round the basilica. The statue of our Lady, appropriately adorned, was borne by Misses Cameron, N. Dunford, A. Brown, and S. Mullin. After the Rosary had been recited and the Litany and hymns to the Blessed Virgin’sung, the spiritual director (Rev. Father Delany) gave the badge to eight aspirants and admitted thirteen new members to the sodality.. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament terminated ah edifying ceremony.

The devotion of the Forty Hours’ Adoration began at the Church of the Sacred Heart, North-east Valley on Friday morning, when High Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Buckley, Rev. Father Corcoran , being deacon, Rev. Father Kavanagh subdeacon, and Rev. Father Coffey, Adm., master of ceremonies. The devotion was brought to a close on Sunday, evening, when there was a procession around the interior of the church, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. At the half-past eight o’clock Mass on Sunday morning there was an unusually large number of communicants, amongst whom were about sixty members of the Hibernian Society in regalia. The attendance at the Masses and various exercises‘ was exceptionally go<sd. After the first Mass -on ■ Sunday the ladies of the congregation provided light refreshments for the members of the Hibernian .Society.

The many friends in Dunedin of Rev. Brother Cusack will be pleased to hear that he is wielding the baton with his usual success as conductor of the students’ choir at the Christian Brothers’ College, Nudgee, Brisbane. At the opening of the Catholic Club in Brisbane on May 8, the college orchestra, conducted by him, contributed several fine selections. On May 9 his Grace the Coadjutor-Archbishop of Brisbane,, accompanied by his Lordship Dr. Shiel, Bishop of Rockhampton, visited Nudgee College. A programme of vocal and instrumental music, with elocutionary and gymnastic items (says the Catholic Advocate) had been arranged, and it is but simple truth to say that each item was perfectly performed and highly appreciated. The orchestra consisted of about thirty lads; who, under the baton of the Rev. Brother Cusack, gave such an exhibition of perfect playing that Dr; Duhig, Dr. Shiel, and Father Lane (who accompanied them) declared they had never heard anything so good; Piano, several first and second violins, ’cello, double bass, cornet, flutes, trombone, large drum, kettle drums, etc., were there, and certainly the members did their work well. The singing class was also conducted by Brother Cusack. The purity of tone was very remarkable.' The blending of the sweet voices with the orchestra in the “Angelus” from Maritana was a real treat.’