DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 11 September 1913, Page 27

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(By telegraph, from our own correspondent.)

A social in aid of St. Benedict's bazaar was held to-night in St. Benedict's Hall, and like its predecessors' was eminently successful. The property owned by the Church in the Richmond district has been satisfactorily sold to Mr. Thomas Darby. A sacred concert was given last Wednesday evening in the Church of the Sacred Heart in aid of the building fund by the Cathedral choir, under Mr. Hiscocks. The attendance was most satisfactory, and the financial results should prove encouraging to the priests and people of the western parish. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament took place yesterday at the Cathedral from the last Mass until after Vespers. His Lordship the Bishop attended at Vespers, and there were also present Right Rev. Mgr. Brodie and Rev. Fathers Ormond and O'Doherty. His Lordship delivered a splendid sermon on the certainty of death. He illustrated his discourse with many arid striking examples, particularly those taken from the laws of nature, some of them of the very simplest, yet in the hands of the Bishop they were amplified and explained in a manner which at once riveted attention and struck home to minds of the most ordinary capacity. It was one of those sermons which linger in one's thoughts and make an indelible impression. A procession of the Blessed Sacrament afterwards took place. His Lordship bore the Sacred Host, Rev. Fathers Ormond and O'Doherty being deacon and subdeacon respectively. Monsignor Brodie also assisted. The Marist Brothers carried the canopy, and the confraternities and children took part in the procession.