On Saturday 13th, Alan and Angeline Houghton arrived for the second set of talks under the heading of Creed, Code & Cult. The topic this time was "The Gospel of Life and the Culture of Death", phrases taken of course from Pope John Paul II's 1995 encyclical letter "on the value and inviolability of human life".
We were lucky again with the numbers who attended: 35 in all, including Fr David Gornall, S.J., from St Beuno's Spirituality Centre in nearby Tremerchion, who concelebrated Mass with me before the talks began.
Stephanie Redfern Jones had also invited a few friends - young Catholics who had met several times before at retreats and talks elsewhere in the diocese.
They had a quick lunch at the end of the talks and rushed off to the cinema in Rhyl, leaving the rest of us to review the contents of Alan's talks over a plate of party food and a glass (or two) of plonk.
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