Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Storming Heaven...

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Blackfen's annual celebration of the Quarant'Ore, (Forty Hours') Devotions starts this Thursday evening. We kick off with a ...
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Monday, 9 June 2014

Papal Award At Blackfen...

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The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has awarded the Benemerenti to one of Blackfen's parishioners (we are now a three-Benemerenti parish!) an...
Sunday, 8 June 2014

A Little Night Music...

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Actually it's an evening of French, German and English organ music, played by local organists, at St. Mary's Chislehurst . The ev...
Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Bartrès...

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When St. Bernadette was a baby, she had to have a wet-nurse for a while, as her own mother was unable to breastfeed her after being badly bu...
Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Ad Multos Annos...

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Our hotel, the Grand Hotel d'Angleterre, is a favourite with many pilgrimage groups. The Birmingham Diocesan Pilgrimage occurs during th...
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In the Footsteps of Bernadette...

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We started the second day of our pilgrimage with a guided tour of the main sites in the town associated with St. Bernadette. It is a while s...
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Monday, 26 May 2014

And Here We Are...

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The Blackfen pilgrimage started this morning with Low Mass at the Lady Altar. Annie Elizabeth's eldest son kindly gave up the opportuni...
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Thursday, 15 May 2014

Lourdes Pilgrimage Approaches...

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The time of the Blackfen Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes is rapidly approaching. It's been three years since the last one, so I'm rea...
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Sunday, 11 May 2014

The Point Of Catholic Blogging...

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Following some of the controversy surrounding the closure of Nick Donnelly's blog , Protect the Pope , the Catholic Herald decided ...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

A Three-Mouse Night...

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There haven't been any additions to the kitty kill count in the sidebar since Miaowrini's initial post-operative mouse. I was begi...
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Sunday, 4 May 2014

Queen Of The May...

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We had the Crowning of Our Lady's statue at Blackfen this morning after the 9am Mass, along with chanting of the Litany of Loreto... ...
Wednesday, 30 April 2014

A Sorry State Of Affairs...

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The excellent blog, Protect the Pope , is to close down. It was started in 2010 to help to highlight and counter increased levels of hosti...
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Monday, 21 April 2014

Photo Editing...

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At the beginning of the year my phone was due for an upgrade. I decided that I was getting too old to squint at a tiny screen, and opted f...
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Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Bleeding Hearts...

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There is a great kerfuffle going around on the interwebz. There seems to be a serious security weakness in the OpenSSL software used by se...
Monday, 7 April 2014

Passiontide Begins...

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I couldn't resist playing with the photo-editing options on my mobile phone...
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Saturday, 5 April 2014

The End Of The Saga...

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It has been twelve weeks since Miaowrini's accident , ten and a half weeks since the operation and four weeks since her final check-u...
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Monday, 24 March 2014

Vestigial Traces Of Hope...

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The latest story to hit the MSM has been sparked by a documentary on Channel 4, due to be aired tonight, which reveals that hospitals have...
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Friday, 21 March 2014

World Down Syndrome Day...

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March 21st is World Down's Syndrome Day. We don't see so many people with Down's Syndrome as we did back in my childhood. Unfort...
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The Pitfalls Of Cat-Friendly Cafés...

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I suppose it was the next logical step from the stunt pulled by Ikea when it let 100 furry felines loose in one of the stores overnight. ...