Submitted by: Marianna Caldwell Greetings and Happy New year to everyone. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, a white Christmas for many this year, very different from the warm sunny days in Australia. Provincial Development Fund Fund #1 – Applications for subsidy to travel to the Provincial Convention in Williams Lake are now being [...]
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 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: Evelyn R. Under the strong leadership of my predecessor, Pat Deppiesse, the Catholic Women’s League in the Vancouver Archdiocese continued to grow. Our four joy-filled General Meetings featuring topical presentations were regularly well attended. Members and priests enjoyed the Priests’ Appreciation Dinner with many councils generously sponsoring guest priests. Although on that night [...]
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 Enclosure: “Stir a new Spirit of Enthusiasm” by Dodie B…, provincial sub chair for membership – enjoy. Thanks Dodie! Dear League Sisters, One of the most effective things Organization Chairpersons can do at this time in our League year is generate enthusiasm for membership. Encourage parish councils to do something different [...]
Read MoreContributed by: Barbara Dowding Dear League Sisters and Father Terry, And so we continue….refreshed from summer and energized from the National Convention, it’s time to get going again! For those diocesan presidents whose meetings are imminent, I know you will have a list a mile long from the National Convention to report on. There were [...]
Read MoreSubmitted by: Pat Battensby Dear Sisters in the League and Father Terry, A heartfelt big hug to all of you as we embark on another amazing League year. Welcome back to Doreen G…… (Kamloops), Dodie B….(Prince George), Gloria G……. (Vancouver) and Murielle B…… (Whitehorse). Special welcome to new past presidents: Joyce S…… (Nelson), and Mary [...]
Read MoreContributed by: Barbara Dowding What a pleasure it is to report to you on behalf of nearly 9,000 members of the Catholic Women’s League in British Columbia and the Yukon. We are six dioceses ranging in size from the largest with 49 parish councils and the smallest only two. Distance, travel time and weather play [...]
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