Looking down on the poor people. It's what you do from City Walls, it reminded me of (London)Derry. Today I'm heading back up to the walls to experience Friday, it could be interesting. I was chatting with Hillel just after I arrived on Wednesday, he's my host's son who has just come out of the army having done his compulsory service. I sensed he didn't want to talk about the army but we talked about everything else. He gave me a lot of hope, I often gain hope from young adults. Hillel is not tainted by the possessiveness which characterises the actions of the older adults here. He wants everyone to be happy in this city, that's not naive, it's visional. He encouraged me to see everything and go off the tourist trail, to people watch and see Friday prayers and the Sabbath. To see the intensity with which religious people behave, he was intimating that they forget to be peaceful, kind and forgiving and whole. He's walked the Comino de Santiago, he knows about peacefulness : )
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AuthorCommunity Priest at St Barnabas Church on the Moss Rose Estate, in Macclesfield Archives
September 2015
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