... VI-form schoolboy Patrick Burke sat at our kitchen table in Wallington, Surrey, with other volunteers, eating my mother's home-made biscuits from the old green tin, and helping to pack FAITH magazine...
Today I am sitting at Euston station, en route to Scotland,, for a FAITH meeting tomorrow in Edinburgh, presided over by Mgr Patrick Burke. For old times' sake, I've baked a cake and packed it - oh, all right, not in a tin now, but in one of those newfangled plastic things with a posh clip-down lid. But somehow there's a good feeling of continuity...Plus ca change...
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