May day holiday

Some of the Vietnamese children who did a beautiful calm dance after communion.
To cathedral for 11 a.m. Mass for migrants with the Cardinal, Bishop Thomas MacMahon of Brentwood and Bishop Pat (who used to be parish priest of South Norwood!). 47 ethnic chaplains. Saw Martin Foster and Bernadette Farrell. I was mitre and Liz was book and communion torch. Good choir from Trinity college and lovely dance by Vietnamese children after communion. Much discussion of Mgr Mark's departure. He really IS the cathedral so he will be much missed. Fr Christopher has taken over as administrator and Fr Swavek will be sub-administrator - he is not back from Spain. To Bow where we had a picnic. Bruce had made up a table on back patio and he used our hose and lance to clean the patio and threw out loads of rubbish. The kitchen looks great and had a pizza with Jack and Bianca in glorious sunshine. I watched DVDs of "Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix" and "40 year old virgin". Have seen the latter before but it's a good laugh. Young Musician of the year is on this week on BBC4 and there was a good programme on 30 years of the programme.
Tuesday to work. I was late leaving in the morning as I was looking for RSCM CRB check. 24 lengths. To RSCM committee meeting at Adrian's - much discussion of the syllabus changes and future programme. HQ still wanting us to dumb down! Great photos and news from Ann in Washington and Boston.