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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...