THE
P RTAL
April 2016
Page 23
Letter to the Editor
From Patti Fordyce
We invite nominations for the 2016 Catholic
Women of the Year.
Any Catholic woman can be nominated - we
are looking for the “unsung heroines”: these may
be women who are active in their local parish or
community, in visiting the sick or imprisoned, in
preparing children for First Communion or helping
with projects for the aged or housebound. There are
women upholding Catholic values in education or in
public or professional life. There are Catholic women
who raise funds for charity, take sick pilgrims to
Lourdes, or are simply good friends and neighbours
to those in need and joyful examples of Christian
living at work and at home. Nominators may think of
women who have been particularly helpful to them
in their own journey of faith or, in this Jubilee Year of
Mercy, women who particularly exemplify one of the
corporal or spiritual works of mercy.
All that is required is a letter, setting out, ideally
on one page, the reasons why the person concerned
is worthy of nomination. We are glad to receive
nominations for women of all ages and backgrounds single, married, consecrated religious.
There is no financial reward, but the chosen
Catholic Women of the Year are special guests at the
annual Luncheon, which will be held in the Autumn.
Nominations should be sent to: Catholic Women of
the Year 2016, 33 Ashburnham Tower, World’s End
Estate, London SW10 0EE or by completing the form
on our website: www.cwoy.org
The deadline for nominations is May 30th.
Patti Fordyce
Chairman
Catholic Women of the Year Committee
London
The views expressed in these letters are not necessarily those of the Editors
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The Editors, The Portal, 56 Woodlands Farm Road,
Birmingham B24 0PG
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Music Review
Robert Macneil sneaks a preview of the new recording
by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge of Herbert
Howells ‘Collegium Regale & other choral works’
Herbert Howells, 1892-1893, is particularly known for his large output of Anglican
church music. He wrote so many wonderful compositions that it is impossible to single out any
one piece as a favourite. This new recording from Hyperion Records however, makes for compulsive and
relaxing listening. For this very special recording, Stephen Layton took his award-winning Choir of Trinity
College Cambridge on a trip to Coventry Cathedral, and the result is stunning.
The Collegium Regale Jubilate, Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
are undoubtedly amongst the most celebrated settings of the
twentieth century. Howells’ himself wrote: “if I made a setting
of the Magnificat, the mighty should be put down from their seat
without a brute force which would deny this canticle’s feminine
association. Equally, that in the Nunc dimittis, the tenor’s
domination should characterise the gentle Simeon. Only the
Gloria should raise its voice”.
This recording by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, is
most certainly a wonderful interpretion of Howells’ work and
is a mus