GUILD NOVENA

TN his foreword to the latest 2annual reportof the Guild of Our Lady' of Ransom, Cardinal Heenan said: "Ransomcrs are not triumphalists. They are Catholics who are so grateful for the -Faith that they want to share it with all their friends and brethren in England and Wales. They never , forget that few of our country. men ever attend church or chapel."
The CATHOLIC HERALD of August 28 contains an advertisement of the Novena before the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom. celebrated by the Guild every year on September 24.
It will be seen that one of the intentions of this year's Novena is "That all the Christians of England and Wales may better appreciate the grace of their baptism and bring Christ Our Lord more into their daily lives." May i ask your readers to support the Guild in its work by joining in the Novena to be held from September II19?
'they can do so by sending their petitions, if possible with an offering towards the support of poor country parishes, to the Reverend Anthony Stark, Guild of Our Lady of Ransom, 2 Clement's Inn, London W.C.2. Copies of the Novena prayers, and of Fr. Stark's appeal to all Ransomers, will he gladly sent on request. During the nine days, with a party of men, he will walk from London to Welsingham carrying the petitions, which will be deposited at the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in the Slipper Chapel.
The whole of the Novena offerings are used to increase the Guild's grants to poor parishes and travelling missions. In 1969 these grants totalled i16.000; last year, through the absence of large legacies, they were down to £7,000. I shall. he most grateful to your readers if they will help us to make up for this in 1971.
Geoffrey Goddard Secretary, Guild of Our lady of Ransom London, WC.2,
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