Intercolonial

New Zealand Tablet, 8 April 1915, Page 45

Intercolonial

A very pleasing ceremony took place. on St. Patrick's Day at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, when the president of the Catholic Federation (Mr. P. S. Cleary) received from, his Holiness the Pope the Cross of Leo XIII.'Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.' At the request of his Grace the his Excellency the Papal Delegate invested Mr. Cleary with the handsome cross of the Order. On the mail steamer by which his Lordship Bishop Phelan came out from Home; were the Mother Provincial of the Brigidine Nuns and Mother Vincent, together with ten postulants for New South Wales and one for Victoria-. A pathetic circumstance was the death of Mother Joseph after the vessel left Port Said. The deceased nun was for many years Rev. Mother of the Brigidine Convent, Ararat. A Solemn Dirge and Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Bishop Grimes were celebrated in St. Patrick's Church, Church hill, Sydney, in the presence of a large congregation. In addition to his Excellency the Apostolic Delegate, there were present tlie Archbishop of Sydney and a large gathering of the clergy. The Archbishop of Sydney,"taking as his text, ' It is appointed unto men to die, and after death Judgment,' preached an eloquent panegyric. Among the familiar figures of Melbourne and suburbs is that of the Rev. Brother P. Nunan, the.wellknown collector of " St. Augustine's Orphanage, Geelong (says the Advocate). After fifty years of faithful service he has quietly retired from that activity, and the Rev. Brother J. N. Moore, who comes from a scholastic institution in Queensland, takes his place. .St. Augustine's Orphanage is widely known as a model training school. Its band is famed far and wide in the Commonwealth, and the success of the school is equally well known. It teaches its boys farming, gardening, poultry raising, dairy work, tailoring, broom and boot making, and painting and carpentering. There are 250 boys in the institution, and these are often rescued from the worst surroundings and turned into admirable citizens. His Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne delivered a fine patriotic speech at the St. Patrick's Night entertainment, in which the following salient passages occurred:—l hold in my hand a small card which contains St. Patrick's Day greetings, and which I received yesterday or the day before. This card is small and simple, and yet it has set me thinking. I cannot do anything more appropriate to-night than to give you, very briefly, the reflections to which it has given rise. On top it contains a bunch of shamrocks; beneath, a harp wreathed with shamrocks; and in the middle, the old familiar salutation constantly heard in Ireland when a friend or neighbor enters an Irish home : ' God save ye all here,' to which the response is, ' God save you kindly.' The sender of the card has added : ' With these homely, hearty words of the old-time prayer I greet you this Patrick's Day, knowing that you will answer, ' God save you kindly.' Now I pass on the salutation to you, and I say, ' God save ye all here,' and you will respond, ' God save you kindly.'