A final word about prayer. Jack Sullivan says that prayer to Cardinal Newman cured his serious spinal condition. Whether Newman intervened or not we will never know and what does it matter. Jack thought the prayer worked and he thereby demonstrates the power of prayer.

After two services in the Anglican and Catholic Churches and a Remembrance Sunday service at the War Memorial my own energy was flagging.

And then we came to the last hymn, Jerusalem, and these words:

I will not cease from mental fight till we have built Jerusalem here.

Well its going to be a long fight.