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Sic Transit Omnia

January 31, 2018
As some of you will already know, this week, I was offered the library of Fr Bob Pursel, a priest who died several years ago. I accepted it on behalf of and for the benefit of the Diocese before I quite understood what I was agreeing to. Far from being a small pile of books, t...
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Let Every Heart Prepare a Room

November 28, 2017
As I write in late November, we are getting ready for the long-planned (and long-delayed) clean-up of the dungeon (the undercroft of the church, which I have referred to as the dungeon for so long that it seems to have become fixed as such in my vocabulary and that of others)....
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For All the Saints

November 01, 2017
I confess to a love of arcane information. Much of the time I keep it decently hidden, but it has found unashamed public expression in the list of saints that appears in this newsletter each month. I began modestly, with 5 or 10 of the major saints, those whose names and reput...
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Pro Fide

October 01, 2017
Later this month, I will attend the annual investiture of the American branch of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (also known as the Knights Hospitaller). There will be much parading around and mildly preposterous ceremony (my sister once described it as “investment banker...
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