Dear friends, October is a wonderfully quiet month. No major feast days and time to catch up on all sorts of stuff ignored or pushed aside during the rest of the year. Who knows, we might even have a new mass book with all the different settings we use. The new rite for mass has …
Author: Robert
Vicar’s Window September 2018
Dear friends, The Church Catholic does seem to have gotten itself into a real mess during the past decades. The Pope's visit to Ireland was a prolonged declaration of regret and sorrow for the sins of the clergy since the 1950s. This was certainly how it came across in the newspaper reports. The poor man …
Father Brian’s 40th Anniversary
A few photos from the recent celebration of Father Brian Williams 40 years of serving as parish vicar at Holy Trinity Sneyd.
Vicar’s Window July 2018
Dear friends, Last month's letter certainly produced responses from various quarters - all in agreement and not all from the elderly like myself. I even had an e-mail from a man who said that he followed by articles and agreed with everything I said. "You say what a lot of people are thinking and are …
Vicar’s Window June 2018
Dear friends, June is a month with only two major feast days - the Birthday of S. John the Baptist (24th) and the Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (29th). The former falls, fortuitously, on a Sunday. It is, of course, the feast day for the Mother Town. Burslem Wakes used to take …
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