Many thanks to the Catholic Herald which has spoken very kindly about me in the leader article of this week's paper.
May I take this opportunity to draw your attention to the list of blogs by priests and religious in the sidebar. They represent a wide variety of styles and interests within orthodox Catholicism.
As soon as this post is published, I will add to that list a new blog: Let the Welkin Ring, which is written by Fr Wilfrid Elkin of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.
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Dear Father Finigan
Your interactive blog, links the bottom to the top, as was evidenced when you published vesper's comment on the post "Mass with the Holy Father":
"Jam lucis orto sidere"
This week here at the bottom in Erith, I have been working on the London Borough of Bexley's draft Olympic and Paralympic Strategy, 'Be Inspired'.
Erith library kindly downloaded a copy of the document for me, so that there would at least one bottom line Erith response to the powers-that-be before the deadline of the 2nd February 2010.
Bexley Council's 'setting the scene' opening paragraph for the 'Be Inspired' strategy document refers to the 6th July 2005, I particularly remember the fateful morning of 7/7/2005, when suicide bombers targeted London the day after the successful bid for the 2012 Summer Games. By some miracle all of the London Schools Athletic team, including my son Michael, avoided being killed or maimed on the journey to King's Cross for the 2005 English Schools Championships in Birmingham.
At the next General Election former Met Police Inspector Michael Barnbrook, the malevolent neo-Nazi BNP Police Spokesman, will be standing as a candidate for MP in Our Lady of the Rosary's Parish, Blackfen, which is in the late Sir Edward Heath's Old Bexley & Sidcup constituency. Nick Griffin MEP, the BNP's leader will be standing as a candidate for MP in the Barking & Dagenham constituency here in London at the next General Election.
PAPA RATZI ORA PRO NOBIS!
Our Lady of the Rosary pray for us in BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP's EU/GLA/LDA/ODA NEO-NAZI DEVELOPMENT TIMES Amen
Yours sincerely
Roy Hobson aka Our Lady's Vesper ON-LINE +
More From: www.spreadtheword.org.uk 's cityofsharedstories YouTube - Roy Hobson's anti-Nazi performance in Barking & Dagenham 2007 (From Dark to Light Too)
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ROY HOBSON FCES1990, FRICS1984,Grad Dipl QS
Pleased to see Father Elkin is now blogging, he was a big influence in me hanging on to the faith during my teenage years when he was parish priest at St. Patricks in Rhyhope even though we never talked in person.
Have you thought of putting a link to British Catholic Blogs? A very mixed bag, all sorts- like any diocese:)
It's good to see Fr Wilfred Elkin's new blog 'Let the Welkin Ring' on your blog roll - what a marvellous priest he is.
Good to see Father Elkin speaking so highly of his fellow Priest Father Finigan.
The Catholic Herald says....
'An outstanding example (of Priestly Blogs) is our columnist Fr Tim Finigan of Blackfen in Kent, who spreads the Gospel alongside authoritative news of papal and other liturgical initiatives that are sometimes overlooked by the official channels.
His blog is called The Hermeneutic of Continuity, a phrase used by Pope Benedict XVI to emphasise the lack of rupture between the Church's teaching before and after the Second Vatican Council; so well-known is Fr Tim's blog that it has helped popularise the Pope's thinking on this subject throughout the English-speaking world'.
Here... Here! And more than that - Absolutely Outstanding!!!
And dare I suggest, just a murmur of a thought you understand, that a 'Papal Honour' for this Internet Apostolate might be a very well deserved accolade for our dear Fr Finigan.
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