by H Bearn | Mar 9, 2023 | Tottington Matters
This, dear readers, is my last offering for the parish website. Now, stop weeping, pull yourselves together and get a grip! It has, in truth, been something of a struggle to put finger to keyboard, my desire to be neither self-referential or sentimental. It is...
by H Bearn | Jan 23, 2023 | Tottington Matters
The very keen eyed of you will have noticed that the View from the Vicarage has been retitled Tottington Matters; I thought that was rather clever and means that during the interregnum the Curate will not have to sit in an empty and forlorn building seeking...
by H Bearn | Dec 21, 2022 | Tottington Matters
St Therese of Lisieux is one of the Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church. She did not attend University nor in fact receive any formal “education” as we might imagine it, or is it to suffer it, today! Millions of copies of her biography have been sold worldwide and...
by H Bearn | Dec 12, 2022 | Tottington Matters
John Henry Newman once said that the great principle of the Faith is the Incarnation; what might be called the enfleshment of God. The Gospel for Christmas Eve refers to the Word of God, through whom the whole of creation came into being, entering into the shabbiness,...
by H Bearn | Nov 4, 2022 | Tottington Matters
A blockbuster film, peppered with the stars of stage and screen, concerning the life and exploits of Noel Geoffrey Chavasse is not likely to appear any time soon! First, he was a practicing and devout Christian, secondly he had firm views about sexual promiscuity and...
