One of our Confirmation Candidates, Kieran Palmer, represented Our Lady of Lourdes Parish at the wreath-laying ceremony in the town on Sunday. Kieran was keen to do this as he had recently toured some of the battlefields and war cemeteries with his
school. At
Thiepval he had been able to visit the grave of his great-great-grandfather, Sergeant Arthur Palmer who was killed, aged 37, in the last weeks of the first World War, leaving a widow and eleven children. It makes very real what I was talking about last Sunday, based on the psalm, about the Lord upholding the widow and orphan...
