Newspaper cuttings regarding the Oratorio for Holy Week.

• Correspondence relating to the proposed Passion Play to be staged at the R.D.S. Letters from Victor S. Smith, Registrar of the R.D.S., +Sensi, John Mulvey (play promoter), Isaac Cohen, Chief Rabbi to Ireland, Fr. Joseph Carroll, Fr. John Greehy, F.C. Golden, Cardinal Heenan and Joseph Briscoe as well as replies from +McQuaid. The play was to be staged during Holy Week and was a commercial venture. 21 March 1967

Handwritten copy letter from +McQuaid to +Levame enclosing copies of the Regulations for Holy Week.

Letter from Mary Banon, Ranelagh, to the Archbishop’s Secretary asking if anything can be done to prevent cinemas, dance halls and theatres from re-opening after Holy Week as Passiontide will not end until midnight on Saturday next.

Typed letter (in French) to +McQuaid from Count S. Ostrorog, praising the Holy Week liturgy in Dublin.

• File relating to the granting of permission, by the Holy See, to 19 April 1943 have the ceremonies of Blessing of Candles, Ashes and Psalms during Holy Week carried out, in accordance with the prescriptions of the Memoriale Rituum, for St. Joseph’s Blind Asylum.

File relating to a Mass for An Tostal, invitation to lunch after Confirmations, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the annual mission, High Mass on Easter Monday, Corpus Christi procession, the Liturgical Summer School, proposed revision of the timetable for Holy Week, St. Jude devotions, talk on Church Architecture.

Letter from Cardinal Conway to +McQuaid regarding the final version of the ICEL translation of the Rite for Holy Week. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Letter from +Levame to +McQuaid thanking him for the copies of the Regulations for Holy Week, drawn up after special commissions and of the Diocesan Council.

Note for +McQuaid stating ‘The Irish Press’ have asked Fr. T. Murphy to write article on the Holy Week ceremonies. Annotated by +McQuaid. Sunday Press