Submitted by: Barbara Dowding Dear League Sisters and Father Terry, I hope you have all had a good Lent and I pray that this Holy Week will be particularly prayerful for you. It is such a hopeful time of year with the longer, lighter days and Easter’s promise upon us! But first, special congratulations to [...]
Read MoreSubmitted by: Barbara Dowding Dear League Sisters and Father Terry, As we wind down another Church year and look forward to Advent, I write with a number of things for your consideration. First and most important is our 2008 mid-term meeting that was scheduled for Feb 28-March 1. There is a conflict with the National [...]
Read MoreSubmitted by: Barbara Dowding Dear League Sisters and Father Terry, Fall is fast approaching! The cooler mornings, the mist and fog, not to mention the spider webs everywhere tell me its time to get back to work. I can see your Provincial Executive have been busy and thank them for the fine communiques filled with [...]
Read MoreSubmitted by: Barbara Dowding Madame President, It has been another very good year in BC & the Yukon. Our numbers continue inch ever closer to the 10,000 mark and more and more members are getting out to diocesan and provincial conventions – further proof of the wonderful rewards of hosting a National convention! Our first [...]
Read MoreSubmitted by: Barbara Dowding Summer greetings and blessings! The longest day has come and gone – can you believe it? While I hope you are all packing your desk for a summer break from CWL, I am preparing for the National Convention. It will be a difficult task to keep all the wonderful highlights from [...]
Read MoreThe B.C./Yukon provincial council writes a Letter to the Canadian Medical Association Journal about CMA’s abortion referral policy and physicians’ right to freedom of conscience. LINK: Letter to CMA (PDF)
Read MoreSubmitted by: Barbara Dowding I am delighted to speak to you for a few minutes about the Organization Standing Committee. As you know, it is one of those committees with a bad rap so to speak. No one wants to do it, possibly because it often has strings to the presidency attached, or because it [...]
Read MoreSubmitted by: Barbara Dowding Dear League Sisters and Father Terry, I have just returned from the National CWL winter meeting and have nearly thawed out! No wonder they call it WINTER-PEG! As you know I am going to be away, so wanted to touch bases on a few things before I leave:
Read MoreSubmitted by: Barbara Dowding Dear League Sisters, Happy New Year to you all! Annual Reports – I trust by now you are working toward collecting the annual reports from your parishes. As the reports filter in you will be amazed at what is going on and has happened. I am confident that the new forms [...]
Read MoreSubmitted by: Barbara Dowding Dear League Sisters and Father Terry, Happy New Year greetings and blessings! I am writing this communique on the heels of my last one as there are a number of important issues to address. The proposed midterm meeting scheduled for March in Kelowna has been canceled…. Needless to say it was [...]
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