...very crowded indeed on a sunny April Saturday. The London Marathon tomorrow, various Gallipoli commemorations today...the bells of St Paul's Cathedral were ringing a most glorious peal (??Evensong? It was just before 5pm) and helicopters were chattering overhead at intervals throughout the day. I was lunching with Ciara, who works at St Patrick's, Soho - good to catch up on news and ideas...she was due to spend the evening in street evangelisation (they give out holy medals, get chatting to people)...
Yesterday evening, I attended, with a fellow student, a fund-raising event for one of our MA team, Fr Bala, who later this year will be returning to India to work with disadvantaged youth in a scheme run by the Jesuits...a group of his friends and parishioners here in London had organised a splendid fund-raising dinner-dance and H. and I were glad to support it. We went along in our best dresses and enjoyed being part of it all! Delicious food, beautiful candlelit tables, lots of talk and music, a very happy atmosphere, a really splendid evening...Fr Bala gave a short presentation about the work he hopes to do in India and you can get a flavour of it here...
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