...and a warm welcome when I visited the office and joined them all for the daily Angelus...
Since finishing my service on the Board, as Trustee, chairman etc, I have deliberately not hovered around the office or dropped in endlessly for visits...so it was lovely to be back, to meet some new members of staff and catch up on everything. Chatty lunch w. the excellent Director. ACN is now a massive charity, always in the news, doing wonderful work helping Christians persecuted for their faith - they recently had a big meeting in Parliament, highlighting some of the needs of Christians in the Middle East and Africa....my memories go back to the 1970s and helping people in Eastern Europe, working with ACN's founder Fr Werenfried van Straaten about whom I subsequently wrote a book...
If you want to catch up with ACN's latest work, come to the Towards Advent Festival on Sat Nov 28th at Westminster Cathedral, when John Pontifex will be talking about the plight of Christians under pressure from militant Islam...
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It sounds wonderful, I would love to be there. We have ACN here in Canada as well, though I think it is on a smaller scale than in Britain. It's been my favourite charity ever since I heard of it years ago. I'm glad the Franciscan Friars are working in the inner cities with the youth. I think it has been a tragedy that the Sisters and Priests and Brothers were taken out of the education system. Why Oh why? they did such good work. But this is good news.
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