...a meeting to plan the 2014 TOWARDS ADVENT Festival, which is always held at Westminster Cathedral Hall, I ran into Archbishop (soon to be Cardinal) Vincent Nichols. I was hurrying across the piazza in front of the Cathedral, and so was he...we greeted each other, and I explained, a bit breathlessly, that I was on my way to a meeting and he laughed and said "Off you go then!" and I hurried on...he will open the Festival, and we have some fine speakers booked...details in due course...
Evening: meeting of LOGS (Ladies Ordinariate Group) at St Mary's, West Croydon. An excellent - really rather gripping - talk by Father James Clark, about his work as a chaplain in a Young Offenders Unit. The plight of young, usually fatherless, men caught in a trap of re-offending and friendlessness...there were some poignant descriptions of the way things are and the work of a chaplain...it was all very down-to-earth and makes for a lot of prayerful reflection, and a commitment to do what we can...one of our number, a lawyer who has worked in prisons also spoke up at the general discussion...
Our Schools Project is now under way, we have various speakers planned for meetings through the rest of this year, we will be studying a new teaching scheme for possible Sunday School use, and there is more...but we have also long had the idea of adding some form of prison work and this will now be on the agenda...lots to pray about...
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