A LABOUR OF LOVE
A five years' labour of love recentlyculminated in the opening of a little church in the village of Bardsey, near Leeds. For five years the Roman Catholic villagers have had to worship in a coalhouse converted roughly into the requirements of a rural chapel. As new houses were built the ever-in-creasing congregation . was obliged to hear Mass from the lawn outside the coalhouse. Each week, Father CienaKhan, Superior of the Oblate Fathers at Sicklinghall, went to the "church" to conduct the services. Ho • travelled twice to Ireland in search of funds to provide a new building, and each time lie returned with £100. In tlio meantime, the. littlo congregation made superhuman efforts to swell the funds by every possible means, and a few Sundays ago took a, personal prido in the opening of the little stone church.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 33, 8 August 1934, Page 3
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141A LABOUR OF LOVE Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 33, 8 August 1934, Page 3
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