THE
P RTAL
December 2015
painful break has been healed. My hope and
prayer is that I will bring my parents back
into the church through this building.”
Next, we chatted with Angela and Jim
Rowdon. Jim was a County Council Careers
Officer in Somerset and Angela a Carer.
They have been married for forty one years. Emilis
Jim was a lapsed Anglican who converted Dobkowiak-Mozdzer
in 1960, while Angela is a cradle Catholic.
However, both her parents were converts
from the Anglican church. She has nine
siblings.
“When the Ordinariate moved to Our
Lady of Walsingham and St Cuthbert
Mayne we moved too. We stayed because
the Ordinariate is Catholic, not a watered Fr Mike Cain
down version of it. However, it has been a
hard road. This former Methodist church is
wonderful. It has got to be the Holy Spirit
that brought us here.”
We asked about the future. There was a
strange silence before Jim said, “We are so
old we will not live to see it. The immediate
future, well we hope the Group expands and
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remains as mixed as it is now.”
Fr David Lashbrooke is a friend of many
years’ standing. When everyone had gone
home, we settled down in the Church Hall
to chat with him.
We wanted to know about the church Susan and
building. Fr David said, “I think from the Fr Anthony Cockram
first moment that we looked at it, we
knew that we were being drawn to
it. We always looked at this building
but Marcia was at a bus stop
and someone told her about this
building. I did have to go through
an enormous rigmarole of going to
see various people. The person who
brokered it was very canny and did
it in the right order.
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“What we need now, is b