TO BE REFUGE AND LIGHT: PAT JACKSON An ongoing series of profiles - part of our basket of stories - in which we talk to Catholic lay people in the diocese about their day-to-day life and work in light of the call of the laity to “consecrate the world itself to God, everywhere offering worship by the holiness of their lives” in “the mission of the whole Christian people in the Church and in the world” (Lumen Gentium). As told to Samuel Harris.
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ell, I’m the second child (of five) of Nancy and Tame and yeah, we were a Catholic family. My dad worked on the railways, so we lived in a railways house in Frankton. A three-bedroom house - I shared with my brothers and that was probably really good for us!
I remember praying the Rosary as a family. Mum used to lead that. I never really went to Catholic schools. I did go to CCD, the old catechetical programme for children. I’ve always gone to Mass my whole life. But I haven’t known Jesus my whole life.
Pat and Paul Jackson, with their son Samuel Jackson 06
