...in this local parish with a good-sized congregation. Its a beautiful Mass, we chant the Kyrie, Agnus Dei etc properly, there's a sense of reverence and unity. Whenever I go it's the same - even today's raw weather failed to deter people...
Tomorrow: a Catholic History Walk around Westminster Cathedral. Come and celebrate the heritage of this London landmark. Starts 2.30pm - meet us on the Cathedral steps, or just inside.
Been re-reading A Freedom Within, the prison memoirs of Stefan Cardinal Wyszinski. When I first read this book, back in the early 1980s, it was with faintly smug sense of oooh-how-terrible-to-live-in-Eastern-Europe. Now, in the changed and changing circumstances of modern Britain, my reaction is rather different. Arbitrary official decrees that make it impossible for the Church to function normally, bureaucratic restrictions on Christian work for the sick and the poor, jargon-ridden language in Government circles that seeps into a loss of everyday freedoms...it doesn't seem so remote or far-away now...
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