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No. 2,809
PERTH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1934
Vol. LX
The Grail Movement in England Plans and Hopes for the New Year
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The Grail ,s,t .enent is designed to kindle the ine 'ation of modern Catholic youth ee. to give it a practical, definite eeeil which is capable of realisation, if only they will work for it with all the: - might. It demands of them as a c. 'r of course such high qualities as co-. ee, initiative, and endurance, and it teaches them to develop their sspecities to the highest degree, the .tre expected as Grail members to ssl, elinate their actions to the cause -ode'', they serve, the conversion of world foe Christ. This ideal is eepable of realisaholt if each en.' elHr will helieve wholeheartedly th,i• 'an be so. The text on the wa:1 'le Grail chapel at Sloane. Street "T am come to cast fire upon ths ,..ertle and what will I but that it be k indled." There are two .chief Grail Houses in Isondon, ons et .:r8 Sloane Street, ond one at 271. r:7 Street, Ni., and each one, as, e to :ts own nosthLal, is a hive of The Hovos at :Soarie Street is the Central departreental Hove, and acts as a training (_entre :or leaders, aspirant leaders, futiire leaders and intellectual and artistic vanguard while the Upper Street hnuse is more in the nature of a club. In the Sleane Street house the c ourses have 'Alen based on very definite needs. A cf)tir.;e on Apologetics by Father Steuart, Si was designed te equip members with the necessary knowledge of their religion to defend it if need arise. A course for leaders on Psychology and Lite was given by Rev. Dr. Vance. The circle to study Catholic Social Action, for which Father O'Hea, S.J.Father Day, S..j., Mr. -Nilson, Lady Sanderson. and others gave interesting lectures, into such important subjects enquired as the Papal Encyclicals, the (?nclition of women in industry, the flousing problem, etc, with a view to !taking the organisation meet modern needs. Next year a study circle will be formed in connexion - with this group. Early in the new eear, Father Maritndale. S.J., will give a series of leccures on The Message of Jesus Christ e as He preached it. Father McNabb, u.P., on The Papal Encyclical on Marliage, and Mrs. Sheed on Catholic Ac. 'en. and the Map of Life. Another of the ment. iS to make needs. if the move,l1s1 convincing headway, is for clear public speakers, and IS has h very been most efficiently supplied practical courses on elocution DY Miss Rorke Cree, and Public Speakip by - Mrs. noland. ': his year Mrs, eland is forming a debating society. , As far as is, concerned, the presentation of plays the (1-reil have definite Pyleans for producin g more in the new ar. fling "Everyman''-' was only a beginThere
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too iar from such a Grail house to visit it regularly. They consist of groups of aspirant members who meet together in their own parish and leaders from the parish are sent to be trained at the Headquarters, where they have regular meetings and get instruct for Grail work. Some twelve outposts have already been formed and mical Interpretation; and Dom J. B. f 'Church Hymns. Ryttimical Interpreta- many more will follow in the New First Aid, Year. McElligott, 0.S.B., the President of the 1 thin ,and Carol Singing. Gregorian Society, took a group for Needlework, Handicrafts, Cooking, Dra:Also in Convent schools, The Grail Plain Chant. He lives to have an matics, Folk Dancing and Sports; a has formed centres. called "power staengaged who are special group of girls efficient choir befors Easter. tions." They are formed in co-opera The Chiel Leaders have given talks to be married arc being trained in da- tion with the Mother Superior, and on the Grail spirit, methods, and aim. mestic duties, and taught to look upon consist of groups of girls who join volThere have been several Grail week- marriage as a vocation. untarily and take an active part in the end courses for leaders and students, consolidating its apostoiate as far as their studies perGrail, while The consisting not only of talks but pracbusy mit. tical plans for the future. At Shrove- position in London. has been outposts. forming University Students and Graduates tide a special retreat will be given for These outposts are formed by re-_ form the groups and. "cells" for propa Grail Leaders. They provide the in, A-ement The house at Uppes Street has been quest of, and in co-operation with the ganda. run on slightly different lines. There parish priest in places where there is with expert and specialised information They are classes for Languages. Gymnastics. no Grail house with resident Grail on social conditions and evils Community Singing, Plain Chant and Leaders, and where the girls are Iiivng were the first and most enthusiastic group of Grail members and proved that the Grail has a future in England, since they will be its leaders. The Grail is not to leave England. It was stated by a bogus communication to the Catholic Press in England, that the Pope had declared that the Grail must not stay in England. The communication was proved to be a lie. On the contrary, the authorities of the Grail have f urnished the "Catholic Times" with their programme for the New Year. A more intensive campaign of Catho lie Action is outlined.
THE CHURCH IN IRELAND A LAND OF APOSTLES
The Grail has its special Departments which are at the head ef the main branches of the movement. These are in their inf. ncy in England at present. Next year they will be enlarged and organised in more detail.
A great French state -man, who lived in Ireland was buried in darkness and Our churches and catheand died an implacable enemy of the in blood. They include departments for LeadCatholic faith ence paid the Church drals were wrecked end stolen from ers. Students, Secondary School girls. ate us; cur abbeys and oar monasteries an unwilling but sincere cemplim, nt Outposts. the Vanguard, the Grail said the Rev. Dr. Ryan of Queen's now only sad and beautiful ruins: (-Lir Magazine and publications. other University, - Belfeezt, preaching at the schools and institutions were robbed Sports, Dramatic and Rythmical Interre-opening by The Bishop of Down and dismantled. pretation. Music, .Atts. the Films, Lanhurc'i of the Sacand Cannor cf "Such utter ruin and desolatien guages and Literature and Excursions discourage red Heart. Cloughmills, Co. Antrim, would have been enough to All this activity is and Holidays. which has been completely renovated. any country or any people. It would necessary for our leaders and members not have been surprising when EmanIt was the late Georges Clemenceau, cipation came at last and the Penal in order that they may develop to the Prime Minister of France during the Laws were abrogated. if the faithful of top of their bent. war. Looking back over the past, Ireland had lain listle.ss and broken for The Holy Father .- sks for Catholic he realised how successfully the a few generations. unel the horrers of Action. that is the co-operation of the Church resisted every attempt to de- those awful centuries had been forgot- laity, also of the young woman in the stroy her: how calmly she, set out ten. apostolate of the hieelrehy. again and again to build up what her "Rut the Church is the 'eternelle re, The Grail has been meant and has enemies had thrown to the ground; comenceuse: she always begins again: how serenely she stood through all the and the nineteenth 'century in Treiand been invited by Cardinal Botirne to hurricanes of history.: and he could witnessed a Catholic renaissance - 50 help in this Apostolatc. not refrain from calling her, in a strik- vigorous and so spontaneous that an asThe first duty of every Grail memrecommen- tonished world realised that the Irish ber is to be a fervent Catholic, to be ing phrase, l'eternelle cense—one who always begins again. Church. fasr from being old and weary, full of the spirit of :\postolate. For this reason all these courses and les"There is perhaps no part of the uni- was young with the freshness of per- sons and clubs, though necessary, are youth." petual versal Church tn which that phrase can only the means to the one aim: to help be more fittingly applied than te the A Land of Apostles. in the conversion of the world to Church in Ireland," said Dr. Ryan. Speaking at a Dublin sale of work in Christ. "For there are few countries in which the attempt to stamp cut the <'athotic aid of the Holy Ghost African VissionAll rnem'oets join the Grail as aspirreligion was more diabolically conceiv- ary League, Bishop Neville. former ants for six month' t leat:t. During Apostolic of Zanzibar. said:— Vicar ed or more - ruthlessly executed than this time they have explained to them here. "To-dav we can say fearlessly that the spirit of the Apostolate, the neces"When the Reformers came to Ire- Ireland has become, let its hope. a sity of sacrifice and mortification as land, they found a vigorous Catholieity, nation of saints and scholars, but cer- means for personal sanctification. After a year they may be initiated. the outcome of the work of centuries. tainly a land of apostles." They found a land wet:I equipped with The youths and maidens of the land When the members are admitted to cathedrals and churcnes . monasteries were flocking to the foreign mission initiation they make the Grail promise. and abbeys, schools and instititth.-ns. fields. Twenty-year before, there had They know That although this promise In a few generations all Clat work was not been one Irish priest or nun in does not bind under pain of sin. it , 4 his Vicariate; now nearly all the priests must yet appeal to their fidelity and undone. "By the end of the seventeenth cen- and many of.the nuns in Zanzibar were loyalty throughout the whole of their sit 4 tury the external glory of Catholicity lives.
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