by R Moffat | May 20, 2023 | Tottington Matters
By the time that this month’s edition of the Parish Magazine “hits the news-stands” the Coronation of King Charles III will be an event which is seen in our rear-view mirror It is unsurprising that given his long tenure as “Prince of Wales” the processional cross...
by R Moffat | Apr 5, 2023 | Tottington Matters
The great Arthur Ashe, legendary tennis player and first African American to be recruited by the US Davis Cup Tennis Team is credited as saying “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” Ashe was sustained throughout...
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,...
