I have been away for a few days, celebrating Mass for the enclosed Benedictine nuns at
Minster Abbey, and finding plenty of time for prayer myself. Every priest needs times of retreat for the sake of his own soul, and so that the well doesn't run dry when he tries to share the faith with his people.
I also found time to make a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral, with it's associations with St Augustine and St Thomas Becket, and to St Augustine's Abbey in Ramsgate, which Pugin believed to be his ideal Church, his greatest work.
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| Canterbury Cathedral |
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| Canterbury Cathedral |
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| St Augustine's Abbey |
Because of my absence there was a
double newsletter last week. Everything there still applies,
except that on Friday, 23rd September, there will be a service of the Word & Holy Communion rather than Mass at 9.30am. This is because I am celebrating the Funeral Mass for Rev Deacon Brendan Campbell at Mount St Bernard Abbey that morning. May he rest in peace. Amen.
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here for this week's porch notice with an updated list of times.
