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Selected articles taken from the White Fathers' magazine April 1962
(Issue No. 123. Source : Eric Creaney)
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1 Father Tolmie has also had a move. He has left the seminary at Lubushi and is now at Fort Roseberry. Among other things, he gives religious instruction in three schools and is responsible for the management of a Catholic book-shop. Changes, too, at home. Father J Byrne, who was devoting his business acumen to launching the new house at Templeogue, has now turned his attention to more exclusively spiritual preoccupations. He is chaplain to the White Sisters' noviciate near Broome Hall: a busy round of conferences and Scripture class etc over and above the duties one normally associates with a convent chaplaincy. Brother John Ryan and his team of Brothers, after completing their long job at Totteridge, turned their attention to altering a corner of Broome Hall and then went on to Bishop's Waltham where further extensive work awaited their ability as bricklayers, carpenters and plumbers. Working on the job at Bishop's Waltham was a return to old haunts for Brother David Kelly, who, only a month or so before, had been posted from The Priory to Brother Ryan's team. |
2 A new Procurator also at the Priory in the person of Father Geraghty, late of Oyo, Nigeria. Father Michael Maloney, who terminated his studies in London last summer, is now teaching at The Priory, whilst Father Patrick Fitzgerald, is happily installed in Rome, engaged in yet further intellectual delights. Father John Murphy has had the happiness to return to Oyo and from West Africa has come Father John McNulty to replace him at Rutherglen. Father McNulty will be renewing his acquaintance with many old friends in Scotland after being associated for so many years with the splendid mission of Jirapa in Northern Ghana.
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3 Developments in the missions means building and building means Brothers! Brother Patrick Chambers wrote from Kabgaye, Ruanda-Urundi, that he was working with an old Brother from the Dutch Province, who has seen many, many years with bricks and mortar under the African sun. It is a story of buildings and Brothers (shortage of the latter) from Brother Eugene Leonard* at Mzuzu. He has had to help out in two neighbouring missions besides coping with work in his own. The new church on which he worked at Katete was to be blessed, he wrote, shortly. Dr Banda had been invited for the occasion. Fr Geoffrey Riddle, teaching at Tabora, Tanganika, had the excellent notion of taking advantage of a brief respite from his school duties to write a long letter. He tells us that when the Duke of Edinburgh was piloting his own Heron on his way to Dar-es-Salaam for the Independence Celebrations, he touched down at Tabora for three quarters of an hour. |
4 Besides a very full teaching programme, for the past three years, Fr Riddle has been looking after some two hundred African soldiers in the nearby barracks. Two language study centres have now been set up in the district, one for Kiswahili and one for Kinyamwezi, for the young Fathers, and other not-so-young Fathers, who are unused to these languages. From the Kiswahili centre, Father Leedal, of last year's Ordination, writes that he and Father Alan Thompson and Brother George Ascott are busy with a full study programme. He reports that Father Gerard Taylor, teaching at the Seminary, is, at he expected, valiantly coping with a dozen self-imposed projects for the benefit of his students. It is no wonder that reports reach us of splendid singing at Kipalapala in the tradition of Father Taylor's choir at Blacklion. On top of letters from Tabora and thereabouts, we had first hand news from Archbishop Mihayo, the Archbishop of Tabora, who spent a week with us at the Provincial House. His Grace was particularly delighted to meet several old "Tanganyikans", among them Father Bernard Brown and Father Thomas Conway, both at Totteridge. |
*Known as 'Brother Paddy' |
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Full circles are no novelty in the life of a White Father. Fr Bernard Duffy, who has been the superior at The Priory since last September, finds himself looking down from the rostrum in the Study Hall at a desk which he himself occupied in 1936. |
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Father J Sydney Stanley Our last issue of the magazine had already gone to press when we learnt of the death of Frather Stanley, who was so well known to many of our friendss and readers. May he rest in peace. |