Hamilton

New Zealand Tablet, 17 June 1915, Page 51

Hamilton

The closing devotion of the month of May was celebrated by a procession in honor of our Blessed Lady through the convent grounds. The procession - was headed by the acolytes and our Lady’s banner, then came the school children in regalia, fifteen of whom carried each a. banner representing a decade of the Rosary. The statue of our Blessed Lady was carried bv the Children of Mary, the clergy, and a very large number of the parishioners following. The concourse assembled at the -grotto' of our Lady of Lourdes, where an eloquent sermon was preached by the Rev. Father O’Doherty, who took for his text, ‘ Behold thy Mother.’ The devotion concluded by the recitation of the Rosary and the May hymn by the children’s choir. The grotto of Lourdes was erected in the convent grounds at the expense of the Sisters, the statue being procured from Lourdes. Last year, on Rosary Sunday, the well and grotto were solemnly blessed by the Right Rev. Mgr. Gillan, V.G., of Auckland. • -