L-R Frs John Boyle, Tim Finigan, Chris Basden, Charles Briggs, Stephen BoyleA group of us met up today at the Good Shepherd Church in New Addington where the parish priest, Fr Stephen Boyle had arranged for confessions for the children in the Catholic junior school next to the Church. Afterwards, he treated us to lunch at the Coombe Lodge restaurant on the way in towards Croydon. Conversation included an informal discussion of the diocesan "Towards a Vision" process as well as the usual exchange of pastoral ideas which get adapted from one parish to another.
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How wonderful to see happy, CATHOLIC priests that are faithful to the magisterium and the Tradition of the Church - now that's a vocations plug!
God Bless you all and keep faithful,Reverend Fathers
How edifying to talk about such single-minded subjects in a public place! Chill out, baby!
Guess who ate his greens as a lad!
It's those men in black again! Don't you look cool!
Ahhhh - a conspiracy in the making. I like those when they are the fruit of priests who don't fear having a priestly identity!
Fathers Briggss and T.F., those tab collars just won't do! Do you want me to get you some proper shirts while I'm still in Rome? Only Big Libs wear them here at the NAC!
Martin - actually, yes please. My black shirts are wearing out and I have been thinking that they should not be replaced. Your comment convinces me that I must keep up with the journey back to the future. The plastic inserts obviously betray my provenance from 1980s formation. I was respectably rebellious in my day but it is all looking so neo-con now :-)
Proper shirts: Puro cotone, taglia 42 - three of. Also some collars if you can. You can get them to post them on to me rather than carry them in your suitcase. If you have a paypal account, I can send you the money via the internet.
Anon - not sure you quite caught the hint of irony there but never mind: I'll let it all hang loose, bruv/man... whatever.
What a great line up of the future Bishops and Cardinal for E&W!
I bet their collective version of 'Towards a Vision' would be anything BUT management of some perceived decline.
God Bless you all and a big thank you for your faithful and consistant teaching and leadership, from the 'simple foot soldiers on the front lines'.
OK Tim, I get the shirts (black, I presume!)
Your credit's good with me.
I'll hand them over over Christmas. Over.
OK, better be black (there was me going to get green ones...)
My credit will prove good - I don't want to set up a stand-off between the Wandsworth scrap metal dealers and the Blackfen cabbies.
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