Have been asked by the Editor of The Life Of The Spirit to write on achievement and prospects in ecumenical work by Catholics in England, and to relate my article specially to what is being done and what could be done in this respect in our universities. To write upon what has already been achieved in this direction would entail the making of a catalogue of individual lectures and talks, of discussion meetings mostly on a small scale, and perhaps of one or two series of theological conversations held over a period of years between Catholic and Anglican scholars. A few books also, in English, on things ecumenical could be added to this catalogue. There is however no movement in England which puts into practice the principles for which the Roman organization Unitas, set up by the Holy See after the war, stands.

Every priest of the English Dominican Province begin this studies at Hawkesyard Priory. There he spends three years studying various aspects of philosophy before going to Blackfriars, Oxford, where he begins the study of theology. These first three years at Hawkesyard are important for more than an acquaintance with the formal discipline of philosophy, though this of course is the central theme of his intellectual life there He must enlarge his understanding of Scripture, familiarize him- self with the Fathers of the Church, her history and liturgy; and he must continually enrich his experience of human possibillity and achievement even where this is not explicitly ordered to the redemptive mysteries of the Church.

These are all aims with which readers of The Life Of The Sprit will sympathize; and it is for this reason that they are asked to help in die achievement of these aims by contributing to the chief means which makes that achievement possible: the appropriate current literature.

The coming of the Holy Spirit makes this day a solemn feast for us; it is fifty days since our Lord's Resurrection, seven weeks of seven days. But seven sevens are only forty-nine, the extra one is added to draw our attention to unity.

What was the coming of the Holy Spirit, and what did it accomplish? How did he show us his presence, and how did he prove it; By everyone speaking the languages of all nations. A hundred and twenty men were there in the same place—the Holy number of the twelve apostles multiplied by ten. Did then those on whom the Spirit came each speak a single language, so that some spoke one and some another, and thus between them the languages of all the nations were spoken? Not so; but each and every man spoke the language of each nation.