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YOUR
UCM NEEDS YOU!
Nominations are urgently required for the following vacancies: Assistant
to National Treasurer If you would like further information on any of the above posts please contact me as soon as possible. Please consider saying "YES" Thank
you
Onward Christian Soldiers This is a rallying call - if members don't respond - like old soldiers we will not die but just fade away!! When I joined The UCM nearly three decades ago, nationally we had around 20.000 members. Can we get back to that? - I thinl not. What a pity when women still have so much to offer to the world.
Since 1913 members, directed and led by the National Committee, worked hard to biuld up The UCM and rely on us now to carry on the legacy they left us; the fight to have the voice of women heard; to be included in debates and discussions affecting women and the family; to uphold family values in our society that are being eroded on a daily basis. How seious it all sounds, yes that part is, but UCM life was also to include socialising and having fun, we were to support each other, to pray together, to nuture our faith, we were to be ready to help, in a practical way, any who were in distress. In the words of Mother Teresa "we can do no great things, only little things with great love. You can do what I can't do. I can do what you can't do. together we can do something beautiful for God". God calls us to do His work whist we are here on earth and what better way than to do it with the support, love and friendship found in The Union of Catholic Mothers. If each member made an effort to encourage one person to come to a meeting and join the Foundation our numbers would double in the next 12 months. those outside The UCM don't know what they are missing. It is therefore up to us, inside The UCM, to take the responsibility of making it known to them. So how do we start? Our National President has asked us to make this a year of Recruitment, looking for new members to rewinvigorate that we set our store by. With this in mind I reached for the dictionary and found an archaic meaning of the verb to recruit - to recover in health or strength; to recover one's own health and strength. Do we need to recover some of our enthusiasm? Have we become complacent in our self-contentment? Do we take for granted that others know of the great things that we do, how we nurture our faith and foster friendships that bind us so lovingly together? Our National Officers are busy keeping us informed of events in the wider world - do we act on them? We need to make our feelings known on issues that cause us distress. Are we as Catholic women not appalled by the ease of access to abortion, or of the dangers of the Mental Incapacity Act? We must all know the vulnerability of many frail and elderly people in care homes and hospitals. Will we actively support"Home is a holy Place?" Do we know our MP's and inform them of our concerns? It has been women's role through time to empower others, to make grow. to make clean and to make new again. If we can say 'Aye' to these questions then make haste NOW to contact parish priests and offer the wonderful news of our work and ethos. Then those members should soon be flocking to us. Please let your voice be the one that tells them. Margaret McNicholas and Sheilagh Preston Past National Presidents
For further information or to join, please contact:
National
Secretary: Angela Batey
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