CALLS ON 600 VILLAGES

MORE than 600 villages scattered through ' seven counties were visited during 1956 by the vans of the Northampton Travelling Mission.
At least 10 centres have been visited for the first time this year. At five of these there
is no'record of Mass being said since the Reformation.
Mass was offered at 108 places at 28 in Northamptonshire, 15 in Bedfordshire, 14 in Buckinghamshire, 12 in Cambridgeshire, three in Huntingdonshire, 14 in Norfolk and 22 in Suffolk.
And, says Fr. Anthony Holme, the Travelling Missioner, writing in the 1957 year book for the Northampton diocese,* "news travels. A donation has arrived from the Spanish border to help with the heavy cost of repairs 10 the Chapel at Present in a The Trailer Chapel is the backbone of the Summer C-ampaign and was this year used at Burwell and sited in a meadow behind The Fox" inn. It was used at Sawtry and on the Great North Road alongside "The Oak" inn.
At Toddington, Bedfordshire, the chapel owes its very existence to a writer of who-dun-its.
There were services in the summer at places with names like Cley, Creake, Hindringham, Holkham and Ovary Staithe, at Stiftley and Wiveton.
On a Christmas campaign the vans visited the same towns and villages with new figures in the Travelling Crib. Wherever the van nwseednt. the Crib was shown. The travelling repository too was well
The Travelling Madonna was Drowned at places visited during May and in the sunnier.
Plans are in hand for next summer, too, when a Catechism camp, encouraged by Bishop Parker, will be run for children unable to attend Catholic schools.
Building
IN a foreword to the directory, Bishop Parker writes of fine now schools at Slough and Luton and alterations to existing schools at Coetessy and Norwich.
" Plans are well advanced," says the Bishop, " for other schools at Northampton, Peterborough, Bedford and Gerrards ('ross. "The Cathedral is rising steadily; the tower may be finished by the early spring and the walls are ready to take the roof. "Our Catholic congregations seem to be growing everywhere; in One place 170 refugees have recently arrived from Suez." During the year-in spite of two months' sick leave the Bishop blessed new churches at Bourne End. WraySbury, Rushden, Ipswich, Bletohley, Aele and Kettering. Foundation stones were laid for several others.
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