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What was it like to be Jesus, to be both true man and true God? It might seem like an impossible question to answer but Anne Rice makes a creditable attempt to answer it in her novels Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (dealing with Our Lord as a child) and Christ the Lord: the Road to Cana (where he is a young man living in Nazareth). And if the name Anne Rice rings a bell, she first came to notice as the author of a cycle of novels about vampires, most famously Interview with the Vampire . But now she has returned to the Faith, and these novels, with one more to come, are among the fruits of that conversion.

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The funeral of Christopher Cassidy, Fr. Damian's dad, will take place on Tuesday 14th October at 12.30 pm at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, in Maidstone, Kent. 

Parking is difficult around the church and, if you would like to attend, you are recommended to take the train from either Charing Cross or Victoria, and alight at Maidstone East, which is situated across the road from the church.

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The minutes of the last Parish AGM on 29th June 2008 are now online.

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Quiz Night and Fish and Chip Supper in Our Lady of Lourdes school hall on Saturday 18th October.  Doors open at 7.15 pm for a prompt start at 8 pm.  Tickets are £10.  For more information and tickets please call Nonie on 07732 475195.

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The Diocese of Westminster has seen a rise in the number of seminarians at Allen Hall, the diocese's seminary.

This month 12 men started their formation at the seminary in Chelsea, west London, bringing the number up to 43. This is an increase from 40 men training to be priests in 2007 and 37 the year before that. Three of the new intake are from the Neocatechumenal Way, the movement that has contributed greatly to vocations in the diocese in recent years.

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