by diviadmin | Dec 9, 2024 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, I am typing these words a few days after Advent Sunday – the start of the Christian Church’s new liturgical year – ready for 1st January 2025 and the start of a new calendar year. Many people make New Year’s resolutions on 1st January each year: they...
by diviadmin | Dec 9, 2024 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, Some of the best hymns are those written for the different seasons of the Church’s year. My favourite Advent hymn is ‘O come, O come, Emmanuel!’ which begins: O come, O come, Emmanuel! Redeem thy captive Israel, That into exile drear is gone Far from...
by diviadmin | Oct 30, 2024 | Blog, to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, November has sometimes been called the ‘Month of the Dead’ because on 1st November the Church celebrates All Saints Day and on 2nd November All Souls Day. A week later we have Remembrance Sunday. I have always taken very seriously my ministry to the...
by diviadmin | Oct 30, 2024 | Blog, to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, When I was a boy, if I was fussy or picky about my food, I would often hear my mother or grandmother say: “You’d eat that if there was a war on”, or sometimes “I don’t know how you’d have got on in the war.” Older readers of this parish letter will...
by diviadmin | Sep 19, 2024 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, I write this September magazine letter at the beginning of August when the weather is hot and the roads are busy with holidaymakers enjoying the beautiful Sussex countryside and the south coast. However, it can be surprisingly cold first thing in the...
by diviadmin | Jun 18, 2024 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
Parish Letter – July 2024.My dear friends,I met a delightful Roman Catholic priest in Lourdes in May who told me that he realised God was calling him to be a priest as a young man when he went to help a drunken man whose false teeth had fallen out – it is a good...
by diviadmin | Jan 11, 2024 | Blog, to read Fr Robert's latest letter
CHRISTMAS 2023 One of the difficulties I sometimes encounter in my work is dealing with people who have rather funny ideas in their heads about what God is like. They may, indeed, be quite clever in other areas of their lives, but when it comes to God, they are...
by diviadmin | Dec 1, 2023 | Monthly Rector's Letter, to read Fr Robert's latest letter
December 2023 Parish Letter My dear friends, I am typing this letter at the start of November, when the situation in both Gaza and in Ukraine is still unbearably heartbreaking. It is a reminder of just why Our Lord Jesus Christ had to be born of the Blessed Virgin...
by diviadmin | Jun 1, 2023 | Monthly Rector's Letter
September 2023 parish letter My dear friends, I am very pleased to share with you news of an exciting new experiment which we are going to begin next month at St Laurence’s Church, Catsfield, and St George’s Church, Crowhurst. On the first Sunday...
by diviadmin | Apr 4, 2023 | Blog
An Easter reflection I have been reflecting on some words about Easter of Michael Ramsay (1904-1988), Archbishop of Canterbury 1961-1974, whom I met in his old age. He wrote: Christianity entered history because of the Resurrection. Without it, there would be no...
