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Monday, May 20, 2013

You won't read about this...

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...in the secular press, so read it here : Pentecost in Rome, and a vast crowd of some 200,000 people packed  into St Peter's Square and...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

To Somerset...

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...for a country weekend. Spent much of Saturday sitting in the sunshine reading through the essays sent in by children (hundreds of them!) ...
Friday, May 17, 2013

To the Walworth Road...

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... to a baker's shop, recommended by a friend, to order a cake.  I have always rather liked this corner of London, a step or two from t...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Things are going to be difficult...

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...for Christians in Britain, as in other countries in what we used to call "the West", over the next years. For some while now,...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

... Yesterday, at a meeting...

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...planning an Autumn event (info in due course) we broke off for tea, prepared by our kindly hostess who had welcomed us into her lovely fl...
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...and...

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reading the children's essays, and discussing children and Religious Education generally, always brings out the tales of howlers. My rec...
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Children...

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...have sent in some splendid work for the Assn of Catholic Women 2013 Schools RE Project. They had to study the sacraments of Baptism, Reco...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

To Northern Ireland...

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...to speak at a conference organised by All Saints Church, Ballymeena, on 'Women and the Church'. Large attendance. An excellent in...
Thursday, May 09, 2013

Extraordinary...

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...sudden conversation this afternoon, in a busy café where I'd parked myself to tackle some work on my laptop for an hour or so. Pleasa...
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Joanna Bogle
Auntie has learned, with mingled pleasure and amusement, that her Blog annoys some people, especially angry dogmatic ones, and entertains and encourages others of a gentler sort. This has confirmed her decision to continue blogging although Auntie's life is busy and she has duties and responsibilities which on the whole she knows to be of more importance. Auntie enjoys (although not neccesarily in this order)her work (writer, biographer, historian) and domestic duties, academic studies(Maryvale Institute), family, friends, and community responsibilities. She relishes the new translation of the Mass, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, her own excellent local Catholic parish, traditional hymns (especially, perhaps, Anglican ones) rain, good literature, sleep, the English coast, Autumn, buttered toast, and a number of other things too precious and important to list here. She feels priviledged to belong to a Church which produced John Paul II and Benedict XVI and she finds their teachings an inspiration.
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