Monday swim and aerobics with the formidable Grace in bright red! To Crystal Palace optician and we are both having new glasses. Mine are 10 years old! Tea and cake. Tuesday swim and to Bromley cinema to see Message in a bottle amazing dance about refugees. Got a charger for my mobile. Enjoyed Santa's book - it made me cry! Golden wedding spreadsheet started. Exc talk by Fr Rob Esdaile on the white flag comment of Pope Francis. Sewing Bee was good. Wed nice reply from Santa. Dm Brendan elected as abbot of Belmont. He will be good. To Our Lady's for annual Mass remembering deceased Norwood catenians. Fr Keith read the names at the start. Declan and I did the offertory - no prayers this time. Best turnout so far - Brendan, Mike, Tom, Declan, Mike Belfourd. Coffee in the hall. The new Polish priest has long silences after the consecrations. Prayer posture throughout the gospel?? To St Michael's for recital by Martin Noble from Chapel royal St James' palace. Very good. No...
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I had sent you a book reference re Cardinal Walter Kasper - 'Spiritual Ecumenism' (2007) New City Press NYC, USA. Also see the 'Directory for the Application of Principles & Norms on Ecumenism' (1993)Pontificum Consilium ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendam, Vatican City, which lays out what RCs must and must not do when talking to people in other faiths or ecclesial communities. Nothing about the work of the Holy Spirit! It's as if the Reformation was nothing and had never taken place. The new 'splits' in the Anglican Communion is the current Reformation taking place. I don't think ecumenism will be with the RCs in the future as the RC Church seems to be saying 'be nice to others of good will in ecclesial communities but don't allow full communion as we are the one and only Church and everyone must re-join us. All others are heretics.'
Graham