Remembering

After the beauty of Faure last Sunday, we have the glories of All Saints Day and we served at Vespers and Mass celebrated by Bishop George Stack. We then went a Foulds Requiem rehearsal and "The Tablet" has an interesting article about this work which is to be broadcast live on Radio 3 on November 11th.
Today there was the simple event of a bench in memory of Eugene Attram who was killed a year ago. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nobody has come forward to testify. Maureen Enyonam his mother used to work at the library and she asked me to say some prayers which I took from the Office for the Dead. It was a lovely day and the bench is in the new rose garden. We had adult confirmation this evening conducted by Bishop Bernard Longley. He is so nice.