St Chad's Cathedral
Birmingham January 8th
The twin spires of St
Chad's cathedral welcomed the relic of Don Bosco with great warmth
and organisation. The relics arrived quietly overnight and the doors
opened at 9am to welcome seventeen school groups from the Midlands
and from as far away as Sheffield for this historic visit of the
saint of youth.
The diocesan youth team
organised a range of activities and Don Bosco's own order, the
Salesians, organised a pilgrim experience which has travelled from
Scotland via Liverpool to Birmingham with the casket.
The casket contains the
remains of Don Bosco's right hand within a full size 5' 4”replica
of his body in a glass coffin.
In the morning
Archbishop Bernard Longley celebrated mass to welcome the relics in a
full church with music by Edwin Fawcett and the cathedral team.
In the homily Fr Martin
Coyle SDB, the provincial of the Salesians in Great Britain
encouraged the congregation to smile at one another for 5 seconds.
That, he said was part of Don Bosco's wisdom that made holiness
consist in being cheerful.
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