Thank you

These pages are free to read. That is how they were meant to be: opened in a kitchen, a waiting room, or a quiet evening, without first asking anyone to pay for the chair.

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They did not appear in a weekend. Behind each short chapter sit years of reading, checked sources, and seventeen years of pastoral life — hospital wards, baptisms, funerals, pilgrimages and the ordinary Tuesday when no one is watching. I write them now as parish priest of a small Catholic parish in South Wales, which is where most of the questions first arrived: at a bedside, after Holy Mass, in a kitchen, or on a wet afternoon when a name in the Litany suddenly needed explaining.

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If something here has helped you, and if you are able to leave a gift, it will be truly appreciated. It will simply help the pastoral work to continue, and let the next small book be written and left where someone else might need it.

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If you can help, I will be grateful.

If you cannot, thank you for reading this far.

That already is a kindness.