by diviadmin | Dec 15, 2025 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, My new 2026 pocket diary arrived in the post a few weeks ago. For me, this is always a slightly magical moment (if I am allowed to put it that way). To begin with, the diary is full of blank pages and the next twelve months seem to stretch ahead...
by diviadmin | Dec 1, 2025 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, Advent Sunday falls this year on 30th November. The season of Advent is rather overlooked in contemporary Britain, which is a shame, because the message of Advent is a challenging but also beautiful one. Just as Our Lord Jesus Christ was born a tiny...
by diviadmin | Nov 3, 2025 | to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, 1st November is All Saints Day, when we celebrate all of God’s saints – not just the well known ones, such as the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Laurence, St George and so on, but all the saints throughout the ages, including the very many men and women...
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...
