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Adveniat Regnum Tuum

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‘We can all be apostles and we can all share in the work of Christ Our Lord in some way. But the way which seems to be most necessary to-day in England is that we should improve our knowledge of the Faith aqd do our best to explain Catholic teaching and practice to others.’

That was the conclusion of the Pastoral Letter for Lent 1944 of . His Grace the Archbishop of Birmingham ; and arising out of an earlier passage in the Letter which runs :—7” One bright spot in this rather sombre picture (of the present state of religious knowledge among Catholics in this country) is the recent formation of a Diocesan Guild of Catechists,” a footnote added: “Particulars of the Archdiocesan Guild of Catechists may be obtained from the Rev. B. Hodgson, St. Peter’s, Broad Street, Birmingham, or from the Rev. R. H. Nicholson, D.D., Oscott College, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.” That is, from the Director and Examiner appointed to the Guild by His Grace. It is because His Grace consented to become its President that his chosen device, as it appears on his coat of arms, seemed a suitable title for an account of the origin, aims and methods of the Guild of Catechists to which he has given his blessing as being one of the ways of working for the coming of the Kingdom.

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Blackfriars , Volume 25 , Issue 290 , May 1944, pp. 189 - 194
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Copyright © 1944 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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1 In a Foreword to Fr. Conrad Pepler's In the Service of Christ the Worker concerning these Sisters, His Grace wrote: I have been privileged to see a little of the work of the Little Sisters of the Assumption since God gave me the care of a diocese; and I should like to see their foundations established in all our large cities and towns. For by their humble work of love they are breaking back Christ the Worker to the working‐man and his family and are breaking down the barriers which selfishness and wealth have built up between the classes. For a further account of their work cf. A Tertiary of St. Dominic by Diana Bury, Blackeriars, July, 1941.

2 In the course of the above mentioned Pastoral the Archbishop paid a high tribute to the Evidence Guild as one of the societies ‘whose work is most needed, … which aim especially at Christian Doctrine as their object and at a better understanding of the truths of the Faith.’

3 It would be particularly regrettable if this criticism resulted in discouraging younger catechists, who, having learnt to see the problems of youth in the light not of experience but of eternity, should be invaluable apostles to their contemporaries—age‐group to age‐group in the spirit of the Catholic Action formula.

4 Miss Enid Dorsett, 4 Seymour Court, Islington Row, Birmingham 15.

5 The short daily prayers of, and for, the Guild open with the aspiration: Jesus, convert England. Jesus, have mercy on this country,’

6 From St. Patrick's Breastplate.

7 Monk Gibbon, For Daws to Peck at.

8 G. K. Cliesterton, Music.