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This Group does not currently meet on a regular basis as there are only three direct members. A new group could start if there were more interested ladies. If you would be interested in joining please call Gladys.

 

The CWL was founded in 1906 by Margaret Fletcher who had to overcome much discrimination and prejudice in those days in her determination to establish a national organisation for women.

Its aims were religious and intellectual, and included social work and the provision of a Catholic voice on important public bodies. It is affiliated through World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations to other Catholic women’s groups worldwide.

The League is structured through Parish Sections and Diocesan Branches to National Headquarters, and much good work is done at national level by League representation on various significant bodies.

Down at the grass roots – Section Level – matters tend to be more mundane and less glamorous! But the important role played by the League in national and international areas would not be possible without the base provided by the humble parish sections. League members adapt. They work at whatever their talents, ages and numbers permit in many supportive parish roles.

We raise funds for the Little Way Association, the League’s own Relief and Refugee fund and to support the international organisation. The Risborough Section takes part in parish work and provides a variety of events and speakers at its monthly meetings. It also works with other local churches on the Women’s World Day of Prayer Committee and for Christian Aid Week.

Although our membership is ageing, its spirit is strong. A few more younger members would open up a wider range of opportunities. (Some of us have been members for forty years when the Section was first established by the late Canon Diamond!).

The League’s motto is Charity, Work and Loyalty. The friendly, cheerful and co-operative spirit in the Risborough Section is evidence of another little golden nugget in the Parish mine!

When founding the League, Margaret Fletcher said it needed women with balanced common sense to work in the service of God. Our patron saint is Margaret Clitheroe, a women of much common sense who was martyred for her faith some 400 years ago.

To commemorate the 80th anniversary, the League met in York and, by kind permission of the Dean and Chapter, occupied the whole of the nave of York Minster for solemn High Mass. Just now and again, one glorious hour makes all those cake stalls and coffee mornings well worth while!

 

 

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