A Reminder...

Ella and James Preece are a Catholic couple living in Kingston Upon Hull in Yorkshire in the UK. This is our blog.

Blogged by James Preece on 30th June 2008

On Saturday 21st of June some of you might have gone along to a workshop lead by Fr Ed Hone at the Endsleigh Centre in Hull. Ella and I never went, because it sounded crap.

According to the Middlesbrough Diocese Adult Formation Website, Fr Ed Hone has been involved in "innovative approaches in reaching out to Catholics who no longer practise their faith" which roughly translated (by a friend of mine who knows him well) means he gives communion to divorced and remarried Catholics. In a letter to the Scotsman News website he is described as "a rebel priest who seems lost to any true understanding and interpretation of authentic Catholic doctrine". Elsewhere I read that "Fr Ed's previous marketing ploys have included using the model of phone sex lines". I asked a friend of mine in Edinburgh (which is where he is based) what she knows about him and she said "Run awaaaayyyyy!" and told me about her friend "who walked out of Mass cos it was so terrible..."

Unlike the Department for Adult Formation, the Hull Faith Forum simply can't attract speakers of that calibre. So if you come along tonight you'll just have to put up with some nobody from down south. Fr Tim Finigan? I bet he wouldn't know "innovative" if it bit him on the arse...

Fr Tim Finigan will be at the Hull Faith Forum tonight at the Endsleigh Centre tonight at 7.30pm.

I guess we'll just have to make do.

Reader Comments

jackie parkes said...

My 2 daughters at Hull University are now back in Brum on vacation...so seem to miss all your good stuff!!

To the Blessed Virgin Prayer for England

O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon England thy "Dowry" and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in thee.

By thee it was that Jesus our Saviour and our hope was given unto the world; and He has given thee to us that we might hope still more.

Plead for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the cross.

O sorrowful Mother! intercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the supreme Shepherd, the Vicar of thy Son.

Pray for us all, dear Mother, that by faith fruitful in good works we may all deserve to see and praise God, together with thee, in our heavenly home.

Amen.

Couple's Prayer

O God, our heavenly Father, protect and bless us. Deepen and strengthen our love for each other day by day.

Grant that by thy mercy, neither of us may ever say one unkind word to the other. Forgive and correct our faults, and make us constantly to forgive one another should one of us unconsciously hurt the other.

Make us and keep us sound and well in body, alert in mind, tender in heart, and devout in spirit. O Lord, grant us each to rise to the other's best. Then, we pray thee, add to our common life such virtues as only thou canst give.

And so, O Father, consecrate our life and love completely to thy worship, and to the service of all about us, especially those whom thou hast appointed us to serve, that we may always stand before thee in happiness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.