by diviadmin | Oct 2, 2025 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, One of my earliest school memories is of attending a school harvest thanksgiving service, aged five. I immediately understood at that young age the point of thanking God for our food and remembering those people in the world who did not get enough to...
by diviadmin | Sep 3, 2025 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, 14th September sees a very special day in the Christian calendar: Holy Cross Day. In 312 A.D. the Roman Emperor Constantine ended the persecution of Christians in the Empire and converted to Christianity. Many more Romans were converted to...
by diviadmin | Aug 6, 2025 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, August is generally regarded as rather a quiet month because it falls in the middle of the Summer holiday season. From the point of view of the Church’s liturgical year, August is really rather an exciting month because it is crammed with saints’...
by diviadmin | Jun 30, 2025 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, I am pleased to say I have now returned to work following my recent three operations. The Bishop very kindly telephoned to tell me to confine myself to light duties for the first month. I must say how nice it has been to see everyone again. Thank you...
by diviadmin | Mar 27, 2025 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends,  I am typing this letter two days after Ash Wednesday. Holy Week seems a long way off, but Lent will rush by and Holy Week will soon be upon us. Holy Week is the most important – and wonderful – week in the Christian year, because during it we...
by diviadmin | Feb 20, 2025 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, We shall have two Children’s Eucharists during March. On the first Sunday of the month, Sunday 2 March, we shall have our usual Children’s Eucharist at St Laurence’s Church, Catsfield, at 9.15am, and at St George’s Church, Crowhurst, at 11.00am. The...
by diviadmin | Jan 30, 2025 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, Something caught my eye yesterday. I looked out of the window, saw falling snowflakes, and thought ‘Yippee! It’s snowing!’ A childhood delight in snow, I suspect, lies buried inside all of us; even if the sensible part of our brains acknowledges that...
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...
