HEALTH PROBLEMS:

Many of you may have heard that a rather virulent strain of what is probably a norovirus has hit the monastery in the past couple of weeks. Please keep our wonderful cook, Christine, in your prayers: she has been laid low for over a week. Fortunately, I managed to get through the funerals at the beginning of the week, before being flattened for a couple of days myself. I seem to be through the worst of it, but I am still feeling a trifle fragile. Immense gratitude to   Fr Andrew for keeping everything going, both in the monastery and in the parishes.