Words matter. These are the best Parish Quotes from famous people such as Catherine Helen Spence, Richard Coles, Justin Welby, Paul Ryan, Hannah Kent, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.
In the church I am very accountable, to the parish and the deanery; in the media thing I am not really accountable, I am out there on my own as a sort of busy, recognised religious person.
I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.
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 applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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.
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.
Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn – there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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.
I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.
I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese. In 1986, I became pastor of the church.
Just as every animal is part of a kingdom, phylum, class, and order, every Dorchester resident has a parish, school, park, and neighborhood that they identify with.
Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
I look upon the whole world as my parish.
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
