Pastor juventus

Fr Dominic Allain and I were at university together. London the university, Kings the college, from 1984-87. Fr Dominic read English. He has always had a way with words but their power come from a deep interior  life. He speaks with the wisdom of the man who prays and not the cleverness of the man who got a good degree (which he did!). The Catholic Herald publish his column every week. He said recently of the Angelus: 'Herein is the drama of what it is to be human. First, God is not remote, nor man abandoned to some existential search for him, but rather God seeks man out. God is not the watchmaker; he reveals himself as one among us....'

This week, as we returned to the recitation of the Angelus (Regina caeli during Eastertide), the pace of the church bell in Lewes changed. We ring it automatically at St Pancras. A slower toll for a longer prayer. Some people, including our freinds and neighbours,  have noticed! Tonight I dined with Fr Dominic and a new seminarian, Andrew Penson, who begins at Valladolid in Spetember. There was a little wisdom, a lorra laughs and some golden silence.

Pray for us O holy Mother of God,

That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.