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A Few Days in Devon
We recently spent a few days in our holiday lodge in Devon. On the first day we met up with Lawrie, Emma and Henry who were departing to go home. So we managed to see our grandson, alebit for a few...
View ArticleTHE "Right To Die" Bill
Taken form Mark Lambert's Blog on the subject.Assisted Suicide, the right to die, is back in the news again. Labour MP Rob Marris plans to introduce a Bill that that would legalise assisted suicide, in...
View ArticleThat "Nazi Salute"
Hitler and the National Socialist Party were abhorrent and people who supported them are rightly vilified.Whether the so called salute is really a salute, a young girl having a joke or wave we will...
View ArticleAssisted suicide bill
A very thoughtful and considered letter form my local MPDear Reverend Mellish, Thank you for contacting me about Rob Marris’ Assisted Dying Bill. I appreciate that this difficult issue raises strong...
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Brave the Shave
The attached refers to Aidan who is a very dear friend of ours. So after Thursday you may not recognise me!Deacon Aidan McPartlan's future daughter in law, Billie, was diagnosed with leukaemia on...
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Have braved the shave!
If you want to support us raising money for Macmillan Cancer then click hereIf you want to read Billie's Cancer Blog then click here
View ArticleAttacks on The Faith
I have received the following from a Parishioner - the message is clear we must act.The Home Office has proposed the following:Priests, Imams and Rabbis must be enrolled on a national register of faith...
View ArticleHeath Care in the UK
Medical specialists in the UK make just over half what they do in America, and less than their counterparts in Australia, Canada, France and Germany, according to the seminal study on the subject by...
View ArticleA reader struggles with his faith
He writes:I am sorry but I simply had to reach out to a fellow Catholic.I may not be too much help, but here goes.I feel that I am losing my religion. I had once believed that the Holy Spirit guides...
View ArticleWhay are we so silent on the majority of atrocities?
I do not believe in the "grand" conspiracy theories. In general I believe in the incompetence theory - governments are too incompetent to organise anything, never mind a grand conspiracy. There is...
View ArticleThsi makes sense to me
From the letters in today's Daily Telegraph SIR – The Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford (Meco) utterly condemns the loss of innocent life in Paris. The perpetrators have besmirched the good name of...
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The Lord's Prayer
Following the ban, in the UK, or having an advert containing the Lord's Prayer from being shown in cinemas please share this with all your friends.
View ArticleThe latest rendition of "The Sandbin"
The Sandbin - being performed at the Old Askean Association Advent Lunch on Thursday 19 November at Chislehurst Golf Club. I think that singing lessons are required before next year's performance!For...
View ArticleWe must have bold decisive action - NOW
It seems to me that our political leaders of all parties are pussy footing around the issue of bombing Syria. Once you start bombing (or have we already started?) you accept that there will be the...
View ArticleThe Good Muslim
One day, a Christian of America made up in his mind to test Jesus, saying, "Teacher, remind me on how I am to inherit eternal life." Jesus said to him, "What is written in the New Testament? How do you...
View ArticlePolitical Reputations
SIR – David Cameron’s approach to negotiations over the terms of Britain’s membership of the European Union is baffling. His position has always been that his reforms should be “fundamental and...
View ArticleStrength in adversity
A young friend of hours has leukeamia. She is writing about her treatment and the ups and downs that it involves in a very moving blog. To read her blog click here - you will not regret it.
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