As it is to be expected, my life has been very busy lately. Settling into the new home, shadowing at my new job, getting six children into Catholic schools, unpacking the house, and running the home without Rhea has kept me away from the Internet all week. Rhea has one more week in school in Durham and then she is home for good. She is home again this weekend and it is a real blessing to be all together again. Can't wait until next Friday when she no longer has to leave on Sunday afternoons!Thank you to all of you who have been so faithful to pray for us as we have made our exciting journey over the past year. What a blessing it has been for our family! We have been very warmly received into the Westminster diocese and parishes and we are grateful for our new family here in the south. We plan on getting to know our new area this summer and exploring London with the children during this holiday time. Looking back at how God has made so many things come into place is just amazing. I did not see how it was all going to happen when I looked forward this past Lent; talk about God's green light!
I spent a couple of days this week at St Thomas More in Chelsea where I will be chaplain beginning September 1. I am really looking forward to working with the staff and students there and I follow in a tradition of Anglican convert priests that have gone in to work in that school. There is a lot of good promising work that is needed in our Catholic schools and I pray that my labours will be blessed by God as I offer my work for his glory and the good of the Church. Please pray that I will settle into the school quickly and begin a very faithful ministry while there.
My shelves will not arrive until this Friday and until then, my study is filled with boxes of books. I am so looking forward to having this part of the home organised where I can work and return to some substantive blogging and organising my private world. Rhea is here and I must return to working with her and having some fellowship time with the family. Once again, to each and every one of you that have and continue to pray for our family, can I express my humble gratitude to you and to God for your prayers being answered. God bless you!
13 comments:
glad all is going well for you all.
Blessings to you and your beautiful family! We will continue to pray for all of you!
Delighted that you've fallen on your feet.
Glad the move has gone well - please pray for us as we move this week. Packing starts Wednesday, everything into new home by Friday. Got rid of 700+ books so far!
Nick
God bless. Hope things continue to go well.
Very lovely family photo too!
Been so much fun---knowing that it has also been an extraordinary challenge for you and yours---to cyberly walk alongside you over the last few years, praying for you, waiting for you to "pull the trigger", watching you take the enormous and courageous step. So very well done. You, Newman, Hopkins, Chesterton, countless others....you've all demonstrated to us, and to our Lord, how valuable the Faith.
It's odd, isn't it, to actually be One? Impossible to explain until its--He is-- experienced.
Two yrs ago on our fam. vacation to England, last stop was London. We were parked spittin' distance from Lambeth (across the st. from Bedlam), but (thx be to G) a short pre-mass walkin' distance from St George's Cathedral (what a lovely place). My family will never let me live down that I only wanted to see the Catholic churches and kept makin' 'em go to mass--I think I just needed to be Home whilst on vacation.
Pax Christi,
Tiberian
I think of the millions of faithful down the centuries who trusted in Christ and whose lives were hid with Him in God and knew that the Reformation was His blessed gift to us all. They are now with Him in the communion of saints.
Glad the move went smoothly. May the good Lord bless you in your new ministry.
I live in Japan, and if you meet any students from Japan at St. Thomas, please look after them. They're lovely people but when it comes to religion, they're not really sure what they're looking for. However, they make great Catholics!
Welcome to London. Now if you want my walking tour of the big sites let me know. Don't miss lunch in the crypt at St Martin in the Fields at Trafalgar. We lived in London for six years (south of the river), and love it still. May the Lord bless you in this great city.
may god give you all kind of satisfaction just pry for everyone. god bless you & your family
I have tagged you for a prayer meme!
Lovely family.
What a beautiful family. And your wife looks far too young to have had six kids!
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