Thursday, October 10, 2019
...and this is beautiful....
...our beloved John Henry Newman is to be canonised in Rome this Sunday, and there is a joyous feeling as pilgrims from Britain begin to converge...
Meetings with friends over the past few days have tended to conclude with "See you in Rome!". After evening Mass at Westminster Cathedral I was hailed by a group of ladies with suitcases...they included Kathy Kelly, longstanding proprietor of a popular London Catholic bookshop and a 2018 Catholic Woman of the Year... We all chatted excitedly - and I unearthed from my suitcase some paper Union Jacks, which I ordered this week from a flag shop, specifically to distribute to pilgrims to wave at the celebrations. I handed these around to the group, and in return they gave me a splendid teeshirt with a picture of John Henry Newman on it! So we are all set...
DO listen to this Vatican Radio broadcast! I won't spoil it by explaining why you may find it amusing...https://www.vaticannews.va/de/welt/news/2019-10/kirche-heiligsprechung-newman-interview.html
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We mustn't forget the four other beati who will be canonised at the same celebration. Until today I had thought that Newman was the only one.
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