DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

New Zealand Tablet, 20 February 1919, Page 22

DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH

(From our .own correspondent.) February 17. A well-attended meeting of those interested in the welfare of Nazareth House was held at that institution on Sunday afternoon. His Lordship Bishop Brodie presided, and referred to the growing needs of the Sisters of Nazareth, to the increasing cost of maintenance, and to the lessening of their resources owing to the war and its many calls on the charity of the public. A special appeal was therefore found to be necessary, and it was proposed that this should be in the form of a garden fete. It was decided to hold a fete on March 22 in the grounds of Nazareth House, and Mr. T. Cahill was appointed secretary. The various stalls were allotted and a proposed schools’ display was left in the hands of the Marist Brothers to arrange. An executive meeting of the M. 8.0.8. Association was held in the Brothers’ school on Sunday morning, Rev. Brother Justin presiding. The principal business transacted was the fixing of the annual meeting for March 5. and for which a circular was drawn up. After devotions at St. Mary’s Church, Manchester Street, on last Sunday’ evening the members of the Sodality of the Children of Mary assembled in their meeting room to bid adieu to Miss Eileen Gray, one of their most devoted and enthusiastic members, prior to her wedding. In presenting Miss Gray, on behalf of her fcl low-members of the sodality, with a beautiful statue of the Immaculate Conception, the Very Rev. Dean Rcguault, S.M., paid a tribute to the good qualities of the recipient, and accompanied the gift with a nice prayer book from himself, conveying at the same time the sincere good wishes of all for her future happiness. The fifteenth anniversary of the dedication of the Cathedral was observed with special solemnity on Sunday. There was Pontifical High Mass, commencing at 11 o’clock. His Lordship the Bishop was celebrant; Very Rev. C. Graham, S.M., assistant priest; Fathers Buckley and Burger, deacons of honor at the throne; Fathers Morkane and Collins, deacon and subdeacon respectively of the Mass; and Rev. Dr. Kennedy, Adm., master of ceremonies. The occasional sermon was preached by his Lordship Bishop Brodie, in the course of which he paid a feeling tribute to the memory of his revered predecessor, reminding the congregation of the great progress the Church had made in the diocese under the wise supervision and administration of Bishop

Grimes. His Lordship exhorted the faithful to continue to show the same generosity and devotion towards the works still to be carried out, particularly those in the interests of Catholic education. Jn the evening the Bishop presided at Solemn Vespers, and Rev. Dr. Kennedy, Adm., preached appropriately of the day's observance. The choir, conducted by Mr. P. F. Hiscocks, with Mr. Harry Hiscocks at the organ, gave a fine rendering of Turner's Mass in the morning, and at Vespers the choir and children's choir combined sang most effectively. In rendering the "Te Deum" the verses were sung by the two choirs alternately.