...has issued a good Pastoral Letter to celebrate Amoris Laetitia, Marriage is "a call from God, a blessed state of life" and there is a need to teach about in Catholic schools, and to prepare young people well, recognising the challenges of a society where lifelong commitment is "increasingly alien".
I am glad that the Church has started a tradition of inviting couples who are marking a significant wedding anniversary - ten, twenty, thirty, etc, years of marriage - to join in a special Mass together with the Bishop: an excellent initiative.
Each summer our mantlepiece has a fluttering of wedding invitations. There is a family wedding next weekend which will bring particular joy and it has been fun sharing in some of the preparations and discussions...
And we also have several invitations to ordinations this summer...and to some priests' Jubilees... JOY!!!
The summer also sees pilgrimages: as I write this, I have just finished last-minute preparations for an Ordinariate pilgrimage to Arundel tomorrow...
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