Thanks to a link on Fr Ray Blake's blog I have just listened to Bishop Egan's interview on Vatican Radio. I spent my student years in the Diocese of Portsmouth, and the last crushing years in the Diocese of Angouleme. I love my fellow French Catholics, and France 'I love thee still with all thy faults' , but oh I long for home. I beg my Guardian Angel tonight to smooth out all the obstacles and enable me to go there, to the Water Meadows at Winchester and other beloved places in Hampshire. Whatever remains in my strength to do, I want to offer to help this new bishop of that particular English Diocese.. There isn't a great deal I am likely to be able to do here. I don't want to spend my last years being of no use. But the longer I stay, the more likely it is that this will happen . My dear Guardian Angel knows what must be done. I am only touching 70. Surely God has work for me to do in the imminent Year of Faith. Please, my Angel dear...................
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Funny how I came across you by chance. Meant! I will keep you in the palm of my Prayers and if it is God's will, you will be brought home here to Portsmouth.
My prayers are continuing for you, for your husband's health, and for the resolution of this business of trying to sell your house. I'm sure this is so with your other readers too. In God's loving care.
God bless,
Dorothy B.
Dear Jane,
Yes,I will pray that you can come home too .This is a Bishop at last, who will not be silent.My heart sinks at the tremendous task he has in front of him,and I am unsure how to help him, except by prayer.What heartens me is his devotion to Our Lady......
Sandy.
Just added another intention to my prayers. Best wishes. B.
10 ave Maria (from the Rosary) everyday for the needs of "the blogocoese" as we say in Germany. And you are included ...
May God bless you!
Eugenie, I am so blessed. Thank you.
Dearest Jane,
I've only just seen this post, or you know that I, of all people, would have added my prayers for this intention. Please count me among those friends.
In my prayers with love - Mary
Hoka2_99
Dearest Mary,
I most certainly DO count you among my very best of friends. In fact I would be lost without you. All my love, Jane
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