St Edward's Church is a town centre Church, literally a stone's throw from a bus stand. This stand acts as a terminus for some routes, and so the buses park up there while their drivers have breaks between runs. Today I met a driver who had dropped into the Church and spent some ten minutes of one of his meal breaks in Eucharistic Adoration. He has just started driving from the nearby bus garage, having previously lived and worked in south London ... where he used to regularly pop in to the Catholic Church in Lewisham. He spoke of such visits being very much part of his life.
And a young lady who I had not met before read one of the readings for our Stations of the Cross. Talking to her afterwards, she is a music student. One day she had gone along to hear a performance of a Hadyn Mass - not realising until she got there that she was not going to a concert performance, but to an actual celebration of Mass with the Haydn music. And that is what has led her to be receiving instruction ready for becoming a Catholic. It was, literally, the first time she had ever been to Stations of the Cross.
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