LETTERS FROM FATHER SWAIN
January 2010: I must begin by thanking Father Andrew Sloane for his warm and generous hospitality to The Guild in November for our annual Council Meeting and the annual Requiem. Read More >
July 2009: I begin by reminding you that the annual Requiem and meeting of the Council will take place on Saturday, 14 November at 11.00 a.m. at St Paul’s Church, 2430 K Street N.W., Washington, D. C.... Read More >
January 2009: I begin the January letter very often by thanking the host for our annual Requiem Mass, but as it would involve thanking myself this year, I think I can dispense with that!... Read More >
July 2008: I must begin by apologising for the last number of the Intercession Paper. Father Lancaster had everything ready, along with two nice new photographs. Alas, the printer made a pig’s breakfast of the thing... Read More >
January 2008: I am writing this on All Saints Day, as we begin the month of the Holy Souls. This particular week, with its concentration on the whole of the Church, is of particular importance to all the members of the Guild... Read More >
July 2006: One of the outcomes of the Council’s last meeting was a desire to renew the connections between the Guild in this country and the Guild in the mother country...Read More >
January 2006: As I write this we have just returned from a wonderful Annual Requiem at St Paul’s Church, K Street, in Washington. Our host, Father Andrew Sloane, a long-time member of the Guild’s Council, showed his legendary hospitality...Read More >
January 2005: As I write this, we have just finished our Annual Requiem & Council Meeting, which took place 13 November 2004 at my own Church of the Resurrection in New York... Read More >
July 2004: I wonder how many of you have seen the television programme, Six Feet Under? This programme, which appears Home Box Office cable, is an extraordinary look into the question of death in our culture... Read More >
July 2003: Just a few days ago, I attended the funeral mass of The Rt Rev’d Paul Moore Jr., XIII Bishop of my diocese. Read More >
January 2003: I write this as our Annual Requiem has just finished. It was a magnificent occasion, with about 250 people present, with nearly 100 staying for luncheon... Read More >
