"Say a Prayer and Act"!

—MGR. BRIGHT
"Say a quick prayer, whenever and wherever you see a chance of apostolic action, snap up the opportunity and go in. . ."
Mgr. Bright, Bishop and Vicar Capitular in the Archdiocese of Birmingham. gave this advice to the Young Christian Students who were assembled there last week for a study meeting. OF PEOPLE The Apostolic Delegate, Mgr. Godfrey, presided at the throne and preached, at St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, on the college's Petrone' Feast Day, the Immaculate Conception. The Archbishop preached.
Mgr. George Brunner, Auxiliary Bishop of Middlesbrough, has been presented with 1,000 guineas by the clergy and laity of the diocese to mark his elevation to the episcopate.
Mgr. Beachamp writes In the excellent Christmas number of Flarepath, the Catholic magazine of the R.A.F.: " Through the leadership courses, no less than 16,000 men and women were given a week of intensive training in the spirit of Catholic Acton."
Fr. John Clancy, lately curate at St. Mary's, Coventry, has been piesented with a gold chalice, two sets of vestments, oil stocks and a missal and stand by his former parishioners.
Mr. A. T. Flynn, secretary of Fr. Hudson's Homes, and brother of the Bishop of Lancaster, was involved in an accident in Moor Street, Birmingham, on Thursday and is now in the General Hospital of that city suffering from a fractured leg. His condition is described as " comfortable."
Terence Connors, 17, of Mount St. Mary's College, wept with his mother, Mrs. Violet Connors of Leeds, to Buckingham Palace, to receive the M.B.E. posthumously awarded to his Father, Capt. Colin Ccnnors, RI., for bravery in mine removal work.
Two Notts County footballers. E. Gannon and W. Fallon, last sw.ek opened a bazaar in Our Lady and St Patrick's Schools, Nottingham. In the chair was the secretary of St. Patrick's F.C., Mr. H. Day, and the captain of the club. Mr. P. Gleeson. proposed the vote of thanks A former college for Congregational ministers, before which it was an hotel and country club, Tollerton Hall, Nottingham, has been acquired by the Diocese of Nottingham as a Diocesan College. It will be opened next September.
Al Barnes, members of the Parents' Association have been invited to sit on the Housing Sub-Comm-ttr.zs and Maternity and Child Welfare ComMttees of the Borough Council, in advisory capacities. Co-option is being sought on the Road Safety and Food and Education Committees as well.
At Haverstock Hill, the Prisry Players, having recently completed a week's run in St. Dominic's parish. are now touring their current production.
Stone, Staffs. "Sean," " For News Views and Taboos in St. Dominic's Parish," asks for over 21's to form a Parish Youth Leader's Council.