Cardinals and Delegate to

honour Mill Hill
THREE cardinals and an archbishop will concelebrate Mass in Westminster Cathedral on March 19 in thanksgiving for the centenary of the Mill Hill Missionaries, founded by Cardinal Vaughan in 1866.
They are Cardinal Heenan, Cardinal Agaganian, prefect of the Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith, Cardinal Rugarribwa, Bishop of Bukoba, Tanzania, and Archbishop Cardinale, the Apostolic Delegate.
This will be followed by a week's missionary exhibition in Westminster Cathedral Halt. Similar Masses and exhibitions are to be held between March and October this year in Dublin, Liverpool, Newcastle, Cardiff and Salford.
NOT AN END
The Mill Hill Fathers themselves say they hope that these centenary celebrations will not be an end in themselves. but that they will make the Catholics of England more aware "that the cause of the Missions is their cause—that they are missionaries, even if they never set foot outside of their own country".
Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, their founder, was also the mind behind the founding of Westminster Cathedral itself, of the Catholic Missionary Society, Child Rescue Work and the Catholic Truth Society.
A new biography of him has been written by the Mill Hill Father. Fr. A. McCormack, to be published by Burns and Oates in March.
MISSION FILM
Also to mark the centenary a new film has been produced covering, among other things. the Mill Hill work in East Africa, including missionary, hospital, educational and social work. It will first be shown to an invited audience at Mill Hill on March 5, after which it will be available throughout the country.
Two missionary prize-essay competitions have been set, one for secondary schools in this country and the other for senior seminary students.
And now Cardinal Heenan, in his Lenten Pastoral Letter on the urgency of the missions, asks the people to: "Support the Mill Hill Missionaries toiling .in many lands to spread the Kingdom of God."
HOME AND ABROAD
In the same letter he says, "The Fathers, Brothers and Sisters of Mill Hill are -at work in every continent. They are a living monument to the vision of one inspired man"—that is Cardinal (then Father) Vaughan.
"We still need priests at home," says the cardinal, "and it may seem strange calling for volunteer missionaries." But he points out, "in Africa millions have never had the Gospel preached to them. In parts of Latin America the Church is dying for lack of priests."
However. the Mill Hilt Fathers are not ungrateful, to their clerical and lay supporters at home. "Without 'their prayers. alms and tireless energy," they say. "the work in the field would long ago have ground to a halt.