...where we always hold meetings of the Board of the UK section of Aid to the Church in Need. A busy morning, lots to discuss. While we tackled all sorts of things connected with fund-raising, appeals, links with parishes, we also sifted through the list of some of the projects we have just funded...all sorts of things ranging from motor cycles for pastoral work to scholarships for students, heating for a monastery, a car for some Sisters, a youth centre, Bibles for children, teaching materials. People know of ACN's work in Africa and Asia but a new brochure just out focuses on various projects in the remote regions in Kazakhstan, where crosses now stand in the vastness of the steppes, in memory of the thousands upon thousands who perished there in the bitter cold and horror of Stalin's prison camps. It quotes the local bishop: "The land here was moistened by blood and tears". Today, this area is a place of grinding poverty and shanty towns...ACN is funding Sisters who are running projects for the elderly, for the children of alcoholics, and for the unemployed...
Re the continuing saga of the lifting of the excommunications on the Lefbvrists: this is a helpful analysis.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
You have a well-deserved award waiting here.
Post a Comment