Last week, the relics of St Claude la Colombière and St Margaret Mary Alacoque were welcomed to London. For those of us who attended, it was an invitation to embrace the mystery of Christ’s love for us through our struggles in life, through our doubts, in our brokenness; and to pray that the world is touched by his love and mercy.
The visit of the relics was the focus of the four-day Sacred Heart of Mercy Mission to London, led by a group of missionaries from the Emmanuel Community – a charismatic group of lay people and religious devoted especially to promotion of the Sacred Heart. They worked with the parishes of Farm Street, St Patrick’s, Soho Square and Our Lady of Victories, Kensington. The visit of the relics also took in events and stations at Tyburn Convent, St James’s Palace, St John & St Elizabeth Hospice, the London Oratory School, and Wormwood Scrubs, and were taken to the streets of London in procession.
