...at Precious Blood Church, and for the first time at a Sunday Mass, hearing the words "Francis, our Pope..." in the Canon. Afterwards, coffee and cake in the parish house, and then some of us watched the H. Father on EWTN...vast crowds, of course, in St Peter's Square for the Angelus, a sense of continuity with Papa JPII and Papa BXVI...
It was through EWTN that I first met Fr Christopher Pearson, now parish priest of Pr. Blood. He was still an Anglican, and was joining the Ordinariate, and EWTN's Joan Lewis came to London to interview him and others taking the same step. We met outside Westminster Cathedral and chatted...I got to know his Ordinariate group, he was duly ordained at St George's, Southwark...and now, some two years on, here we were watching Joan broadcasting to us from Rome with the latest news and discussions about the new Pope...
TV showed Papa Francisco celebrating Mass and preaching at St Anne's Church, and greeting everyone as they left, just like a parish priest, the father-figure of a community. People crowding up to kiss his ring, to talk to him, to press his hands. He embraced small children like BXVI did, kissing the tops of their heads. It all looked rather delightful...the Romans seem to be taking him to their hearts...
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