Andrew Bosi sends me the following details of the Bus that has been organised for those wishing to travel to my
Jubilee Mass from central London.
Please ask people to be at Moorgate (Finsbury Square) for 4.45 or London Bridge for 5.15 p.m. We hope to use a stand on the east side of Finsbury Square but a routemaster bus should be fairly conspicuous, even though we hope to have RM5 which is red but may have to settle for RM6 which is gold in colour.
We plan to return at approx. 10 p.m.
People should let me know they are coming on this e-mail address:AndrewBosi@aol.com. The £5 fare will be collected on the bus. We hope to have a Gibson ticket machine but cannot promise. Oystercards including freedom passes, travelcards etc. regrettably cannot be accepted.
Any rendition of "Transport of Delight" will be limited to the return journey.
Andrew Bosi sends me the following details of the Bus that has been organised for those wishing to travel to my Jubilee Mass from central London.
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This is just in from the Press Association.
Marriage Care. Is this some kind of Catholic organisation? For real?
Intrigued I looked into it further.
The Marriage Care website describes it as a "marriage support organisation" which has "a very definite stake in marriage and all adult long-term relationships".
Hmmm. Marriage or all adult long-term relationships?
Either it's one or t'other if you get my drift.
Look a bit more and the contradictions become even more glaring.
Thus on its FAQs one finds the following:
Q: Will you want us to stay together?
A: It is a myth that Marriage Care will "make you stay together". We help people make their own decisions and plan their own future. By listening to clients and being objective the counsellor will help you find your own answers.
So why even call it "Marriage Care" then?
Then look at the description of its charitable objects on the Charity Commission website :
TO HELP PEOPLE IN THE SPHERES OF MARRIAGE, RELATIONSHIPS AND FAMILY LIFE BY PROVIDING
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING SERVICES
MARRIAGE PREPARATION SERVICES
RELATIONSHIP EDUCATION SERVICES IN SCHOOLS AND ELSEWHERE
ANY OTHER SERVICES WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHURCH'S VISION OF MARRIAGE AS A VOCATION OF LIFE AND LOVE
A marriage support organisation ...with a definite stake in ... all adult long-term relationships ...which will help people make their own decisions ...whose purpose is to promote marriage and family life in accordance with the Church's vision ... baffled? You're not the only one.
But hey, this stuff must be good (there's lots on promoting something called "emotional literacy") because pew Catholics are paying for it - the Charity Commission accounts reveal a hefty donation of £215,000 from the Diocese of Bristol in 2008.
And that money is being excellently used on the Geronimo PR agency (which already has a number of government accounts and used to employ John Prescott's son, David as an account director) and its "Make Marriage Care a household name" campaign, as well as counselling people in second, or third "marriages", or adulterous relationships as they are properly known (p 17 2008 accounts) but hey it does support all adult long-term relationships after all. Or is it marriage. Oh well, one or the other.
It admits that there are problems in this area. According to its 2007 accounts, "On occasions, there have been apparent differences between the Church and the Charity, because of the nature of the work of Marriage Care in difficult areas of relationships, notably divorce."
Divorce? Adultery? But in the same document Marriage Care insists that it "embraces and upholds the Christian vision of marriage" ... oh never mind.
Marriage Care's trustees are an interesting bunch. How do they get appointed to these impressive sounding positions, that's what I want to know. Anyway, they include one, Freda Lambert, who we all know and love from her time on the CWN and totally represetative NBCW. Isn't life grand!
Hope they won't have to "hold very tight." :-D
Red Maria - Yep, Marriage Care certainly seem to have lost the plot entirely. Will do a bit more reading and post on this.
Dear Father Finigan
Will Red Maria and Gem of The Ocean 'Right minded Woman on the Left Coast' both be on the routemaster bus to your Jubilee Mass?
That will be a real between the lines journey for the rest of the passengers :-)
As an artist I once performed the song The Last of the Great Whales by Andy Barnes at the St Paul's KRAYMAYDAY event in Deptford. Symbolically and physically this solo performance took place between the lines of the top 'Old Boys' of the UK's profession of violence i.e Charlie Kray and Darcus Howe,the Devil's Advocate.
PAPA RATZI ORA PRO NOBIS!
Our Lady of the Rosary pray for us in Nick Griffin's NF/BNP/EU/GLA/LDA/ODA NEO-NAZI DEVELOPMENT TIMES Amen
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