The Portal April 2016 | Page 4

THE P RTAL April 2016 Joanna Bogle presents us with two saints As if life wasn’t busy enough, I enrolled last year on a catechists’ course at the recently-founded School of the Annunciation based at Buckfast Abbey in Devon. I admit that part of the reason was the attraction of weekends at Buckfast – it is fabulous, with extremely comfortable accommodation, delicious food, and the beautiful chanting of the monks at prayer in the great Abbey Church. Recently, after studying the whole idea of the )