Fr Gregory Charnock of St Bartholomew Parish, Lambert's Bay, South Africa, writes to tell of a Christmas present for his Parish Church. Dave and Leslie Bashkier, with their son Paul, kindly donated, and travelled up from Cape Town specially (3 hours) on 21 December to install new permanent altar rails, to replace the temporary ones that had been in use since Summorum Pontificum.
After the installation, there were confessions, Rosary and Holy Mass. Following that, there was a traditional West Coast snoek (i.e. fish) and the blessing of the benefactors' car. They are pictured here with sacristans and Parishioners:
The altar rails were blessed the following day with some new vestments Father was given for the Christmas season.(I feel rather envious seeing them all in summer clothes in the bright sunshine of the southern hemisphere just before Christmas.)
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Fr Charnock attended a Latin Mass Society priest training conference. We have also had priests from Nigeria and elsewhere - let's hope they have a similarly positive effect on their parishes.
An altar rail! In South Africa! Deo gratias... I'd never thought I'd see the day.
That said, the parish I attended when I lived in South Africa was one where receiving Our Lord kneeling & on the tongue was the norm — sadly rare, both in South Africa and elsewhere, but growing steadily I hope.
I once spent Christmas in Melbourne (Victoria not Derbyshire). I know we moan about the weather here but Christmas dinner at the poolside in shorts and T-shirt is wrong, wrong, wrong!
Christmas dinner by the pool is bewdy mate! The T-shirt has to be a Christmas one though!lol
Victoria, who lives in Melbourne (Australia)
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