Prayers are requested for the repose of the souls of recently deceased members.
Mr R. Burnett of Banstead, Surrey
Mrs Patricia Blackledge of Blackpool, Lancashire
Mr Anthony Smith of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Revd Alfred Starratt of Baltimore, USA
Mrs Mary Taylor of Saddleworth, Oldham, Greater Manchester
Mrs Patricia Blackledge of Blackpool, Lancashire
Mr Anthony Smith of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Revd Alfred Starratt of Baltimore, USA
Mrs Mary Taylor of Saddleworth, Oldham, Greater Manchester
Former patrons of CCA, recently deceased:
Canon Stanislaus Andrew Condon, 1936-2012
Canon Stan, a priest with a great sense of humour, loved animals and conducted burial ceremonies for children’s pets. He had retired ‘with his menagerie’ to Raunds in 2004 from Woburn Sands. His sister, Maria Newitt, said: ‘When he was in Woburn Sands he had a donkey called Buster who used to accompany the funeral corteges. He was in love with owls and had chickens and ducks. He was very approachable.’ He kept in touch with CCA via the General Secretary, whom he always made laugh with his ‘dancing chickens’ cartoon-icons. The headline of his local Bedfordshire newspaper announced his death as ‘Much-loved, animal-loving priest passes away.’
Canon Stan was born in Poland and had a hair-raising journey with his mother to England during the war to join his father who was serving with the Royal Air Force. They settled in Aylesbury from where he went on to study for the priesthood. Ordained in 1959, he served in Corby, Thrapston, Bedford and Woburn Sands.
He wrote an online book of remiscences: Communicating with God: one person at a time (see below), a lively and humorous memoir of a Catholic priest who learned to cherish his family values as a displaced person in wartime Eastern Europe. As a parish priest and venerable Canon in Woburn Sands, England, in his words he ‘endured training’, implemented the reforms of the Vatican Council and strove to provide a life of service to rural English parishes. When retired, he hoped that anyone reading his book would gain some insight into recent history, and acknowledge the inscrutable wisdom and providence of God.
He is much missed by all who knew him, and by us all at CCA.
l http://www.publicbookshelf.com/author/Stanislaus-Andrew-Condon
Canon Stan was born in Poland and had a hair-raising journey with his mother to England during the war to join his father who was serving with the Royal Air Force. They settled in Aylesbury from where he went on to study for the priesthood. Ordained in 1959, he served in Corby, Thrapston, Bedford and Woburn Sands.
He wrote an online book of remiscences: Communicating with God: one person at a time (see below), a lively and humorous memoir of a Catholic priest who learned to cherish his family values as a displaced person in wartime Eastern Europe. As a parish priest and venerable Canon in Woburn Sands, England, in his words he ‘endured training’, implemented the reforms of the Vatican Council and strove to provide a life of service to rural English parishes. When retired, he hoped that anyone reading his book would gain some insight into recent history, and acknowledge the inscrutable wisdom and providence of God.
He is much missed by all who knew him, and by us all at CCA.
l http://www.publicbookshelf.com/author/Stanislaus-Andrew-Condon
Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL
Politician, lawyer, lecturer and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, he was also a patron of the Society of King Charles the Martyr, and Grand Bailiff for England and Wales of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus.
Lord St John readily accepted the offer to become patron of CCA, and sent a generous cheque. He had written in an issue of The Ark in 1970 that:
‘It seems that such is the intensity of the love of God that it has overflowed into an act of creation. We exist because of that love and not only human beings but the whole of creation. The animals, for example, so much neglected in Catholic theology, exist not only for man but as an expression of the love of God. Hence our duty to respect them.’
Lord St John readily accepted the offer to become patron of CCA, and sent a generous cheque. He had written in an issue of The Ark in 1970 that:
‘It seems that such is the intensity of the love of God that it has overflowed into an act of creation. We exist because of that love and not only human beings but the whole of creation. The animals, for example, so much neglected in Catholic theology, exist not only for man but as an expression of the love of God. Hence our duty to respect them.’
