RETURNING TO THE FOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 14 April 1921, Page 39

RETURNING TO THE FOLD

The Rev, J. S. Robson,' curate; of St. Barnabas’, Linthorpe, Middlesborough, -England, t was received into the Catholic Church on Friday, January 21, by Monsignor Barton Brown. In 1915, Mr. Robson graduated at Durham University, and was ordained deacon of the Church of England in the same year. Rev. John S. Twigge, formerly Rector of Ormside, Westmoreland, England, and mission preacher in the diocese of Oxford, was recently received into the Church at Farnborough Abbey by Dom Benedict Steuart, 0.5.8. The Rev. Roland Tudor, chaplain to the nuns of the Episcopal Convent, Dundee, Scotland, has made his submission to the Church, He was received at the Benedictine Abbey at Fort Augustus. . He is a graduate of Durham University, and prior to going to Dundee, labored in missionary work in the Western Highlands of Scotland. The grandson of the late head of the Swedenborgian Church in Mauritius, Mr. De Chazal, formerly a lieutenant in the French Navy, was recently received into the Church with his family of eight children at Durban, South Africa.

Sixty converts to the Church were among the class of 80 confirmed in Washington,' D.C., by Most Rev. John Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate, on February 4. The Sacrament was administered in St. Patrick’s Church, of which the Right Rev. Mgr. C. F. Thomas is pastor. This is the largest number of converts received into the fold at St. Patrick’s for several years.

At St. George’s, Taunton, England, recently, the Bishot) of Clifton administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 36 candidates, most of whom had been members of St. John’s Anglican Church, the Vicar of —Rev. R. Wynter denrived of the living last year because of his refusal to abandon the use of the service of Benediction. It was announced recently at St. George’s that 32 persons had recently bee" revived into the Church. This number did not include' Mr. Wynter and three others, who were received elsewhere.

’ In addressing the candidates at the service, his Lordshin said he thanked God from his heart that Ho had been pleased to call them to the fulness of that Faith to part of which had pillin'- with such devotion, although outside the True Fold. Tn this, he said. +liev had followed their spiritual leader, who, with his wife, bad sacrificed almost everything in order to follow the dictates of conscience. He asked who would say a word against Hem, and who would cast reflections upon a man who followed his conscience in a matter of religion.

“I do not suppose, dear children.” the preacher said, “that you encounter much difficulty in this town from the fact that you have changed your religion, or rather, n f vour having come back to the Mother Church of this land. The davs of persecution are cast. To-day there is sufficient enlightenment and good feeling to guarantee you from anything like persecution. . “Be not afraid. Even if von should have to suffer, blessed are, yon. It is an office of God’s Holy Spirit to insnire ns with help and strength to profess our Faith before the world. If vou have to suffer from the fact of having become Catholics, suffer it with thankful hearts. “ And above*, ah- don’t be unkind. Don’t say an unkind nr uncharitable word about those whose religious society you have .left. , Show them that you esteem them as greatly as vou did before,' and that your only wish for them is the same grace that God,, in His mercy,’ has given you.” , Later, sneaking a few words before returning to the altar, after the recital of the Apostles’ Creed, the “Onr Father” and the “Hail Mary,” the Bishop referred to the love of Our Lord in the Sacrament of the Altar, and their fervent desire to worship Him in His sacred; institution, as having brought these’ favored souls into the .Catholio Church.