Diaconal Ordination...

I am sorry to say that, due to unforeseen circumstances, I shall miss the diaconal ordination on Sunday of an old friend from Heythrop, Allan Jones, one of the Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception. We studied Latin and Church History together and I am confident that I have never met a more warm, witty and intelligent man in my life, a most worthy and religious man. May he receive all the spiritual and temporal blessings in the Lord on the day of his ordination. Do keep him in your prayers.