Parish Quotes

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.