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| Written by John Allison |
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X EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME (C) X 1st August 2010
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Something to pray about...We can join Pope Benedict in his prayer intentions for the month of August: General: Missionary: About Us After the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century there is no record of any public Catholic presence in the Medway area for some 250 years until, in the year 1795, a French émigré Priest - one of many forced to flee France after the French Revolution - began a Mission in Brompton.
The present church complex was started in 1890, probably starting with the house and then the original church/hall/school now named after the first Priest - “McMahon Hall”. The present church dated from 1896. It was opened on 12 May in that year. The second large hall, now called “Scott Hall” after the second Parish Priest, was built during the early 1930s, just before Father (later Canon) McMahon left after over 40 years' service.
Fr Geoffrey Pointer |
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