CHAPEL OPENED IN UPPER ROOM

More Mass centres begun in • Northampton diocese
The Bishop of Northampton -wilt on Sunday offer Mass in the new Chapel of St. Augustine at Halesworth, which was opened on Easter Sunday. Halesworth, a mid-Suffolk market town, became a Mass centre when a naval unit was stationed there during the war.
Mass continued to he offered in the Anglican church rooms, and when these were no longer available, the diocese bought a house in Thoroughfare. in the centre of the
By demolishing two walls upstairs, a chapel to seat 80 people has been formed. A Catholic family will occupy the ground floor.
Halesworth, served by Fr. I. J. Mossey, of Southwold, has a population of about 3,000, and is on the main line from London to Lowestoft and Yarmouth. •
New chapels are being prepared at Norwich and at Diss, also in the Northampton diocese.
Parishioners of St. George's, Norwich, are at work adapting the Brabazon Road Gymnasium as a Mass centre. and at Diss, a market town on the Suffolk border, where Fr. J. B. Hemphill, 0.S.B., has been Saying Mass in a caf6, a site has been bought and plans are nearly ready for a permanent chapel.
Diss is many miles from any other Catholic centre.