Invercargill

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 27, 12 July 1923, Page 9

Invercargill

(From our own correspondent.) July 2. Despite very boisterous weather during the week-end, large numbers approached the Holy Table at the early Masses on Sunday, and the members of the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart turned out well for the evening devotions, when the Very Rev. Dean Burke preached an instructive sermon explanatory of the history of devotion to the Sacred Heart. Saturday's express from Dunedin did not reach Invercargill until 11.80 a.m. on Sunday morning, after which Rev. Father (F. Marlow had to journey some miles to the* little country church at Rakahouka to celebrate Holy Mass. Very great regret was expressed on all sides when the news 'came through on Monday concerning the death of the Rev. Father O'Neill, of Winton.— The members of St. Mary's Tennis Club held a small , jumble sale in St. Joseph's Schoolroom, last Saturday, which proved very successful. Last month Miss Annie Baird left Invercargil] to join the Sacred Heart Convent, Rose Bay, Sydney. Her departure from her native town leaves a s gap that will be hard to fill. Miss Baird was president of the Sodality of yie Children of Mary for many years, and grateful reference was made, at last Sunday's meeting to the excellent services she had rendered that body. She had also been a valued member of St. Mary's Choir' and secretary of .the Altar Society. In the social life of the Church she had taken a prominent part, and she left Invercargill with the united good wishes of the whole congregation May her life in the Home of the- Sacred Heart be marked with ! every grace and blessing! " .