Organising...

...the annual Schools RE Project run by the Association of Catholic Women. This is sponsored by the Catholic Truth Society (look at their posh new website!)  and so we organise a team of ladies who gather at the CTS, brew some tea, and then fold and pack all the leaflets that are sent to Catholic primary schools across Britain. It's chatty, agreeable work: we sit in the big CTS basement, from where, later in the year, we'll be mailing out the prizes, and we catch up on news as we work, sticking labels on to envelopes, folding and packing the leaflets, taking sackloads to the posting-room for franking. I have spent a good part of my life doing this for one project or another, and it seems to satisfy some deep-down urge for that project-accomplished feeling that you get when you have tackled a big pi;le of ironing, or done the Christmas cards or completed your tax return...

Also coming up is a planning meeting for the Catholic HIstory Walks.  These have been going well and indeed have become a major part oif Auntie's life.

Book these into your diary:

THIS COMING MONDAY, Jan 28th, meet 6.30pm Church of Our Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Chelsea.

MONDAY FEB 25th, meet 6.30pm (after the 5.30pm Mass) steps of Westminster Cathedral. We will be visiting PARLIAMENT, and seeing the great hall where St Thomas More was tried, and where the present Holy Father addressed  the nation in 2010...

Sunday June 23rd, the annual MARTYRS' WALK through London. This is a prayer-walk, during which we say the Rosary, stop to pray at various chuyrches along the route, and finish with Benediction at Tyburn. BOOK THE DATE IN YOUR DIARY NOW: we gather at 1.30pm at St Sepulchre's Church, Newgate.(near the Old Bailey. Nearest tube: St Paul's).