Bernie, having her birthday on Monday was a good time for Paul to arrange a mass at Westminster Cathedral for HCPT Groups' 35/729 leaders and a meal together afterwards.
The afternoon after Mass was enlivened by some decent Australian wine to accompany our lunch.together. and reminiscences about happy, though rarely easy, times with HCPT The Pilgrimage Trust generally and Group 35 in particular abounded.
Bernie told us that to ease her journeys to visit her sister in Baghdad, she had managed to secure a second passport from Iraq so could travel more directly than with her British one. Her cousin who was a bishop in Mosul has retired. My understanding is that Mosul like parts of Northern Iraq is largely controlled by Sunni Muslims though has a large Christian presence
Many of the moments and travails of our pilgrimages to Lourdes over the years, were discussed; for example those detailed at: HCPT
We also considered the possibility of making a return visit to Lourdes perhaps by train and maybe at a similar time to the main HCPT pilgrimage. We happily did this once before after the main HCPT pilgrimage had departed from Lourdes see:
Despite the wintry weather which affected transport to and from London, the reunion was over all too soon.
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