Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Candlemas...

...at Westminster Cathedral, with a long column of choristers filling that great aisle, carrying lighted tapers and singing gloriously, followed by a concourse of people in candlelit glow...

I needed this: a hectic day with a radio interview about the Pope, plus a lot of hurrying about to deal with domestic and other paperwork...

At the weekend I am off to Maryvale. Bliss.

Meanwhile: it suddenly occurred to me today that it is 5 years since I did my London-Brighton cycle ride, raising funds to help local young people to get to World Youth Day. The new Pope had then just been elected and there was much discussion about whether WYD would "work" and gain enough interest and support. Well it did, of course and was a huge success, to be followed by the even greater event in Sydney in 2008 which an even huger success. And the next is in Madrid in 2011. Young people from our local parish are already making plans to go...

Which makes Auntie think of fund-raising...for WYD but, before that, for projects associated with the Pope's visit to Britain this Sept...

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