THE WAR YEARS

Extracts from the Parish Log Book

1939 The Evening Service (Sunday) changed to 4 o’clock.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament for a Just Peace.

Rosaries, Sacred Heart Badges, a Postal Order and Christmas letter sent to all our men in the forces.
 
 

1940 October. Night prayers discontinued for safety’s sake.

Three days of prayer for a just peace.
 
 

1941 Forty people, men and women, volunteered to act as firefighters for the Church property.
 

Christmas: 300 letters sent to our boys in the forces.
 

1945 Arrangements made to receive Dutch children in Catholic homes in May.