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 | 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 | 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...
by diviadmin | May 10, 2022 | Blog, to read Fr Robert's latest letter
My dear friends, June 2022 is a very special and unique month in the annals of our country’s long history, when we shall enjoy the great pleasure of celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Amongst The Queen’s titles is that of ‘Defender of...
by diviadmin | Apr 27, 2022 | Blog
My dear friends Ukraine: a Christian reflection By a cruel irony, in Passiontide when Christians concentrate on the ‘passion’ or sufferings out of love for humanity of Jesus Christ, our newspapers and televisions are full of images of suffering of a very different...
