Good fortune meant that I had a Sunday off. Having dropped Rhodri back in Carmarthen yesterday and staying over in our other home in Neath I decided to go back to my home parish of Port Talbot St Theodore. http://www.st-theodores.org/ There was a United Parish Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany. St Theodore's is a parish of the Forward in Faith integrity and staffed by members of the Society of the Holy Cross. http://www.sscwales.org.uk/ It was an unlifting experience an Eastward facing Concelebrated Mass with Fr Colin Amos the Vicar as the principle celebrant and preacher. The sermon looked at the gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh and how their different qualities could apply to our own lives. The sermon was a dialogue one done with the Sunday School. A brave attempt indeed! St Theodore's is looking in fine condition the inside stone chemically cleaned and a new reredos installed having been moved from the redunant church of St James the Great in Newport Road, Cardiff. The church too seemed fuller than I remember it as a child and it was good to catch up with some people I have lost touch with. All in all quite an inspiring occasion.
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Hi Edward,
Thanks for the piccy of St James' reredos in situ novo. It's the first I've seen from a distract, apart from a fuzzy one taken by someone close up just after installation.
I enjoy reading your blog It strikes me that it's as tough being a curate nowadays as it was forty years ago.
Keith
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