Easter Sunday, 31st March 1991

Ali after being received into the Church (31 March 1991)

After today, 31st March 2024,  Easter Sunday will not fall again on 31st March for another 62 years, in 2086.  So today is the last time that I will celebrate Easter Sunday on the same date that Ali was received into the Catholic Church 33 years ago in 1991, on 31st March. 

I have written about that occasion of 31st March 1991 before: here and here.   There had been such obstacles for Ali that being received into the Church had seemed to be an impossibility.  Then the obstacles suddenly lifted, and thanks to Fr John McGrath,  Ali was received into the Catholic Church at  the Church of St John Payne, Greenstead, Colchester.