In his pastoral letter promoting vocations, Archbishop Cushley of St Andrew’s and Edinburgh, has pointed out that without priests there would be no Eucharist, and without the Eucharist there would be no Church.

That’s good ! We’re getting somewhere !

As the poet Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney(1823-1908) once pointed out :
“Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make a mighty ocean, and a beauteous land ”

Could it be that it is gradually getting through that a method of providing the Eucharist for the Flock is absolutely vital? Eventually ! At last !

Maybe in the near future- who knows- could there be somewhere, somehow, just possibly, some realisation that the secular clergy, celibate,parish supported, is not the only method of providing the Eucharist ?