DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, 22 July 1915, Page 35

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

The annual meeting of the Diocesan Council of the Catholic Federation, will be held on Wednesday evening, July 28. ;'..:.,■,. V ; - ,- . . - ; ' The collection for the St. Vincent de Paul Society, which was taken- up at St. Joseph's Cathedral and the suburban churches of the parish on Sunday, will be continued on next Sunday. p: A basket-social, under the auspices of the local Catholic church committee, will be held in St. Mary's Hall, Mornington, on Friday evening. The proceeds are to be devoted to the church site fund. Private J. Cassidy, a member of the Christian Brothers' Football Club and St. Joseph's Harriers, writing from the Dardanelles to a friend in Dunedin, says he is in good health. He sends his best wishes to his many friends, and hopes to see them all soon. _ •"-.. On Tuesday morning a Solemn Requiem Mass for the repose of the souls of Catholic soldiers who have fallen in the war was celebrated in St. Joseph's Cathedral. Rev. Father Corcoran was celebrant," Rev. •Father Kavanagh deacon, Rev. Father Falconer "subdeacon, and Very Rev. Father Coffey, Adm., master of ceremonies. St. Joseph's Harriers held their weekly run from Forbury Park on Saturday. C. Whelan and A. J. Tourell were entrusted with the paper, and laid the trail along Victoria road, St. Kilda, past Tahuna Park, then crossing Chisholm Park. The pack struck some very difficult country to cover. The trail lay in the direction of Lawyer's Head, returning via the beach and St. Kilda. After the run the members adjourned to the Bungalow Tea Rooms, as guests of the committee, and an enjoyable evening was spent. On Friday, the 16th inst., Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a ceremony of reception and profession took place at St. Dominic's Priory. Two young ladies, Miss J. Duhig (Lowburn, near Cromwell), and Miss K. O'Donnell (County Clare, Ireland), received the holy habit of the Order of St. Dominic-, and will be known in religion as Sister Mary Stephana and Sister .. Mary Kieran respectively. Two novices, Sister Mary Liguori Falconer and Sister M. Mechtilde Mace, took their final vows as members of the Order. In the unavoidable absence of his Lordship the Bishop the ceremony was performed by Very Rev. Father. Coffey* Adm., St. Joseph's Cathedral, assisted by Rev. J. Falconer. Very Rev. Father Hunt (Cromwell), and Rev. Fathers Liston, Collins, Scanlan, Lynch (Holy Cross College), and Rev. Brothers O'Ryan and Geraghty were also present in the sanctuary. Quite a number of relatives and friends of ..the new Sisters assembled to witness the ceremony. ■ ■;. CATHOLIC SEWING GUILD. >?., Tho Catholic Sewing Guild for Belgian relief held their meeting as usual. Besides the Belgian work, the guild made the necessary articles for two beds at. the Trentham Hospital. The committee received . goods from the following:—Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Meen.an, Mrs. A. D. Burns, and Mrs.-P. Brown.