...to Holy Cross church in Carshalton, for the funeral of Miss Margaret Hignett, who taught me French at St Philomena's School, and who was later among the team of wonderful volunteers at the Sutton office of Aid to the Church in Need. It was the ACN office team who informed me of her death, and I was able to join them at the funeral.
The prayers of the funeral Mass are glorious, especially the final prayer in which we called on the angels and saints to accompany her as she went to meet God...
Holy Cross church stands next to the railway in Carshalton, a simple suburban church, bright with six candles on the altar, a fine great crucifix in the sanctuary, and a sense of being well-loved and at the heart of a busy parish. And as it happens, a church with family links for me - my parents were married here back in the vanished Britain of 1949...
On to the ACN office in Sutton. Always a busy place, and currently lots happening, with a new book, Persecuted and Forgotten,(about the plight of Christians iun various parts of the world) shortly to be published, and the annual conference for diocesan representatives due to be held next week.
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