...and the only thing to do is to soak the Church in prayer.
Mass at Westminster Cathedral this morning, and a day spent with a friend who lives nearby, various projects to discuss. Outside, the solid red brick of the cathedral, the grey London sky, and that persistent dampness that is not quite rain but lingers and lingers...in the almost-dusk of the late wintry afternoon, a sudden chatter of noise and humming of cars as the choir-school children came pouring through the gates of the schoolyard in clusters of crimson jackets and bulging schoolbags and were gathered up by mummies...
Auntie with work in hand, and to-do lists, and an overful diary...but although London life trundles on, nothing feels ordinary or secure somehow.
Church scandals splashed across the newspapers, much gloating on the Internet.
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The media's only interest is in making the church look as bad as possible. The Scottish Bishop is one in 5000 bishops. That's a rate of .02% of failing to live to their vows. Compare that with the greater than 50% of married couples failing. There's no perspective given. A pox on the media.
"nothing feels ordinary or secure somehow." Well, it won't. We have here no lasting city....
We must Believe! Through belief we will know. Gray skies reside in Lexington, KY but I know the Son will shine again..
Praying for all of you. We here, in America, know how painful and painfilled it is. It just seemed to never end when all of the abuse started to come to the surface.
I miss that lovely photo of Papa Benedict on your website. He must be more ill than anyone is telling us. It's hard to imagine he would have left otherwise. It's all so sad.
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