Saturday, November 17, 2018

The sound of...

...a roomful of young men saying the Creed together. Rather impressive. I was at the Faith Club at the John Fisher School. It meets every Friday, in a room marked with pictures of St John Paul. An enjoyable meeting, good questions and a lively atmosphere. The boys relish buttered toast after the talk, a tradition established by my mother some 40 years ago.  The school's chaplain, Father James Clark, is a former Fisher boy. The chapel has recently been repainted, in cream and white, much lighter than before, with  pictures of the patrons  of the various Houses, done in stained-glass style on the arches leading up the aisle. The great Pilgrim Cross, which founder members of Faith carried annually to Aylesford on pilgrimage, hangs on the wall at the back, with the date of each pilgrimage hammered into it in nails...

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