Sorry, but if you are a member of the Parish of St Winefride in Aberystwyth, Welsh gateway to the North, it looks as if you will just have to go without a Sunday Mass until some time in 2016, or possibly, 2015 if providence smiles on you.
The Bishop of Menevia, Thomas Burns, has closed the parish church deeming it unsafe and unsound.
As far as I can ascertain, from speaking to a leading parishioner, no information has been imparted to them other than the fact that the church is closed as of last Sunday.
No more Masses and, apparently, no Diocesan contingency plan.
No pastoral guidance to parishioners as to how and where they may fulfil their Sunday obligation and attend Holy Mass.
Nothing. Zilch. Dim.
The poor parish priest has been confined to barracks in Swansea some 70 or so miles distant and he is only allowed to be in Aber on Sundays, but no one knows if there will be a Mass in a hall, a community centre or under a hedge somewhere.
With the best will in the world that appears to me as being pretty dismal leadership.
Bluster and threat and asking parishioners to tell those opposing the new church to politely back down smacks of insecurity and incompetency.
Certainly, it is not Christ like behaviour.
Say a prayer please for the Bishop and his priests and the outcast parishioners of St Winefride's.
The Bishop of Menevia, Thomas Burns, has closed the parish church deeming it unsafe and unsound.
As far as I can ascertain, from speaking to a leading parishioner, no information has been imparted to them other than the fact that the church is closed as of last Sunday.
No more Masses and, apparently, no Diocesan contingency plan.
No pastoral guidance to parishioners as to how and where they may fulfil their Sunday obligation and attend Holy Mass.
Nothing. Zilch. Dim.
The poor parish priest has been confined to barracks in Swansea some 70 or so miles distant and he is only allowed to be in Aber on Sundays, but no one knows if there will be a Mass in a hall, a community centre or under a hedge somewhere.
With the best will in the world that appears to me as being pretty dismal leadership.
Bluster and threat and asking parishioners to tell those opposing the new church to politely back down smacks of insecurity and incompetency.
Certainly, it is not Christ like behaviour.
Say a prayer please for the Bishop and his priests and the outcast parishioners of St Winefride's.
That time of year thou may'st in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold;
Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang.
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold;
Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang.
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