Circular letter from Our Lady of Angels Parish in Hermiston, Oregon, announcing the upcoming Silver Jubilee of Episcopate and Golden Jubilee of Priesthood for Bishop Joseph F. McGrath. The document is by Father Urban Riordan OFM Cap. and Father Cornelius Hyland OFM Cap. The notice asks parishioners to contribute to a ‘Spiritual Bouquet’ by pledging various prayers and good works, and to provide a financial ‘Jubilee Offering’ using an enclosed envelope. The document emphasizes the bishop’s decades of selfless service to the Diocese of Baker City and sets a deadline of February 10 for all submissions.
Profession of vows of Br. Rod Pieretti OFM Cap. into the hands of Fr. Terence Harrington OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, on the occasion of his silver jubilee in Monze.
The poem reads:
‘Thy favours still, O Lord bestow;
Through Mary’s hands may grace still flow;
Give me the Cross or pain or woe,
But give to Eire Liberty’.
File relating to the promotion of a series of Silver Circle draws in aid of the building fund for the new House of Studies and Ard Mhuire Friary, Cashelmore, County Donegal. The file includes letters (mainly from the local clergy) in support of the fund, promoters’ cards and ephemera, legal permits, and bank statements and receipts associated with the fund. The file also includes a list of parishes in Donegal in which the promotion of the fund was permitted.
Silozi note book by E. Ndopu Kamitondo (London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1958). The volume has extensive annotations by Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap.
transcript of lecture by Jesuit priest, Father Walshe, on the importance of silence in religious congregations
A Sikololo phrase book by D.E.C. Strike and A.W. Thomas (London, John Bale, Sons & Danielsson Ltd., 1915). Manuscript annotation on the title page reads: ‘To the Rev. Father Torrend SJ, with the author’s compliments, D.E.C. Strike, 17 Jan. 1917’.
The school at Sihole mission station. The original caption reads: ‘Academy started in 1946 and finished in March 1947. The builder was Br. Andrew O’Shea OFM Cap.
Sihole Capuchin Friary. The original caption reads: ‘Opened 21 May 1944. Demolished in Jan. 1953. Newer friary opened in Dec. 1952’.
The exterior of the Capuchin Friary at Sihole, Zambia. The original caption notes that Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. and Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. walked through the district of Kalabo in 1942 to find a site. Fr. Gerard Joyce OFM Cap. and Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. were later assigned there.