DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 17 November 1921, Page 19

DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND

(From our own correspondent.) November 11. His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate will arrive in Auckland on Saturday, November 26, from New Plymouth. Oh that same afternoon a garden party will be .given in the grounds attached to St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby, from 3to 5 o'clock. On Sunday, the 27th inst., his Excellency will preside at Solemn High Mass in the Cathedral at 11 a.m., when addresses from clergy and laity will be read and presented. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon his Excellency will bless, and lay the foundation stone of the new convent, Grey Lynn. In the evening, at 7 o'clock, he will preside at Vespers in the Cathedral, when the occasional discourse will be delivered by the Right Rev. Mgr. Hackett. At the conclusion of the sermon the Apostolic Delegate will officiate at Pontifical Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. On Monday and Tuesday his Excellency will visit convent schools and charitable institutions. The Apostolic Delegate will leave Auckland by the Niagara on Saturday, December 3, on his return to Sydney. The Coadjutor-Bishop, Right Rev. Dr. Liston, visited Huntly parish on Sunday, October 30, and administered the Sacrament of Confirmation. On last Sunday his Lordship visited Coromandel and the outlying districts. Tho recent fete held in St. Benedict's Hall in aid of the funds of the new parish of the Good Shepherd, Dominion Road, under the Rev. Father W. J. Murphy, realised over £3OO. Extensive improvements have been'made in the grounds around the church-school since the inception of tho new parish, and funds are in hand for the erection of a presbytery. A grand juvenile social will be held in the Town Hall on Wednesday, November 16, in aid of the Grey Lynn convent fund. The .quarterly meeting of the Particular Council of the St. Vincent de Paul Society (comprising all the conferences of the diocese) will be held in St. Joseph's, Grev Lynn, on Monday, November 21. The president, Mr. O. Little, will give an interesting account of tho congress held in Sydney last month, and at which Mr. Little was the Auckland delegate. Rev. Father Zanna, writing to friends in Auckland, says that he visited Lourdes recently. During his stay in Paris he had the pleasure of renewing acquaintance with Archbishop Cerretti.