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St. David and the Cathedral
The interest shown by your paper in the progress of things Catholic in Wales and all that appertains to the reconversion of the Principality prompts me to make the following suggestion: Westminster Cathedral is the centre of Catholic life in this Commonwealth and Empire, and there we find chapels dedicated to SI. George, to St. Andrew and to St. Patrick, whose spiritual sons in and from England, Scotland and Ireland have helped to preserve the heritage which devotion to those saints symbolises and find their respective national sanctuaries in the Cathedral chapels consecrated to them. But what of the memory of St. David of Wales, for we find no chapel dedicated to his memory at Westminster?—C.D.
Going with Protestants
With all respect to Fr. Hayward's statement: "We put our Faith in danger by going with people who are not good Catholics or who are Protestants," surely one would have to be terribly weak-kneed and mentally vacillating to allow oneself to be influenced, not only against a great Faith, but a reasonable and profoundly satisfying Faith, in favour of a poor, thin unreasonable and watered-down affair like Protestantism.—A. BLACK, Orchard Cottage, East Budleigh, Devon.
'Thou' or 'You'
No one today can feel anything personal about the archaic "thou art. thou wouldst and thou hadst" in prayers. Such unnaturalness can never produce anything more than a mechanical recitation which eventually becomes meaningless.
It is right to aim at beauty in language, but never at the expense of comprehension, and I submit that future translations should replace the artificial "thou" by the more natural "you." — GEORGE WEST,. "Raincliffe," Ecclesfield, near Sheffield.
Robert Grosseteste
It may be of interest to your northern readers that there will be a public lecture on Robert Grosseteste. Bishop of Lincoln, at the John Rylands Library on January 14, 1953, at 3 p.m., it will be given by Sir Maurice Powicke, D.Litt., LL.D., Litt.D., F.B.A. Although this is some way ahead, I felt it worth a mention in view of the letter last week from Mr. Van Dijk. of Oxford. —JOSEPH HAMILTON, 18 Queen's Place, lrlams o' th' Height, Salford, 6.
Mary's County
I would be most grateful if any of your readers could give me any information or historical evidence for the use of the above title by Lincolnshire in medieval times.— GEOFFREY C. PARRY, 3 Peploe Road, Kensal Rise, London, N.W.6.
S. Maria Goretti Can some reader help me to find the book St. Maria Goretti, Martyr for Purity, about 3s. 64:1., and an Irish publication?—AGNES CALVERT. 18 Albany Terrace, Burnley, Lancs.
The Summer Holidays
Have boys and girls thought what great graces they could obtain for themselves and for their country by getting up and hearing Mass on a weekday as well as Sundays during their holidays'?
Why not once or twice a week this summer? — A FELLOW CATHOLIC, lver Heath, Bucks.
Mere women
After a recent Rosary Rally I overheard this scrap of conversation —Priest (speaking with much feeling to layman): "It's a good thing it wasn't just women; so many rallies are only women."
One wonders when it will be realised that in their congregations the proportion of women to men is about 5:1, partly because the stronger sex, after working far fewer hours per week than any wife and mother at home, is too tired to go to church. Further, this proportion for varying reasons has probably been maintained ever since the first Good Friday, when only one of the Apostles stood at the foot of the Cross with several women.—EVELYN Blettraa, I The Hill, Northfleet, Kent.
The Rosary
Countless books and pamphlets are written, and sermons preached, on how to meditate the mysteries of the Rosary, but no advice is offered as to how to cope with doing three things at once. The effort of saying one thing while thinking of something else, and fiddling about with one's fingers exhausts me completely. What is the answer? —"DISTRACTED."
Neglected Converts
May I suggest that the convert who feels neglected in his new parish ("Points from Letters," June 25) applies to the Head of the Church, Our Lord Himself. Under somewhat similar conditions I prayed before the Blessed Sacrament, and within half an hour I was invited to join the church choir.—"ANOTHER CONVERT.
'First Communion' At the Notting Hill Gate Metro Station there is a ,poster labelled "First Communion." A comedian decked as a girl first communicant is billed as one Fabrizzi, the greatest Italian comedian.—(Rev.) STEPHEN RIGBY, 195 Pinner Road, Watford.
Housekeeper for French P.P.
A French parish priest, who has for some years had complete control of three country parishes in the Limoges diocese, has asked me to write, asking your assistance through the "Catholic Herald," in obtaining a housekeeper. The majority of his parishioners are agnostic, and many Communist, and he feels that, if he could find a Catholic woman who would be prepared to attend to the cooking, mending and general housework, he would have a great deal more time to devote to the enormous task of reclaiming these souls for the Church.
He hopes that one of your readers will find it within her power to come to his assistance.—P. HARPER, 38 Cottingham Chase, Ruislip, Middlesex.