Pilgrim walks 1,800 miles

Fabio Mateus, a 32-year-old Catholic, has walked 1,800 miles from his home in the north-east of Brazil to Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day in an attempt to show his country ‘Jesus is alive’. His journey began four months ago and it has taken him along some of Brazil’s busiest motorways, through the states of Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia and Minas Gerais and past more than 70 cities and towns.
 

Read more: Catholic Herald 17/7/13

Summer days - at last!

The garden is at last beginning to show encouraging signs:

Flowers

this one started life as a bird seed!

beans:

tomatoes:

 oh no!  a weed in the summerhouse!

Diaconal Ordinations for the Personal Ordinariate

On Saturday 27 July 2013, at midday, Bishop Richard Moth, Bishop of the Armed Forces, will ordain four men as transitional deacons for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Scott Anderson, Anthony Watkins, Philip Penfold, and Darryl Jordan, will be ordained in the church of Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Gregory, Warwick Street, which has been in the care of the Personal Ordinariate since Holy Week this year. All four men have been received into the full communion of the Catholic Church by means of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, and have been undergoing their initial formation for Sacred Priesthood, which continues for two years after ordination. All are welcome to attend the Ordination Mass.