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Day Seventy: Friday 29th May 2020

Can’t beat Fish and chips on Friday either from Tony’s or the Battered Cod; as Fr John goes to get them like a little puppy I look out the window waiting for his return. When tea arrives, these days after social distance queuing, it does not take long to polish it off. In the meantime some poor fisherman is battling the seas to make sure it’s the same again next time. It is easy to forget the dangerous and hard work that goes into giving us our Friday tea. So let’s keep fishermen in our prayers, many have had a tough time financially and are hoping that things will improve with Brexit. Fishermen are important so important that a group of them were called and assembled themselves in the Upper Room, with Mary and others waiting the promise of Jesus to be fulfilled. When Pentecost comes they will indeed still be what they were before but the Spirit will give them an eloquence like never before. We are asked to work with them and alongside each other so that we can drag in the net of the many that our prayers and example have caught.