This generous present made by Fr Ed's parishioners in Peru, reminds us each Sunday of the links between our parishes. It looks as if they have oast houses!
(as with all the images, click on it to see a larger version, and again to enlarge it further)
Brian O'Connell writes:
"Around the time of Canon Charles's arrival at St Teresa's, (January 1999), Fr Eddie O'Connell, who had been one of his Young Christian Workers at Brixton in South London, took over "Our Lady of the Missions", a vast shanty-town parish in Lima, Peru. It was decided to link our two parishes, and because of our greater material prosperity we were able to help them financially. This started in September 1999, and by August 2010 the parishioners of St Teresa's had donated over £10,000.
Fr Eddie would come to England on leave each summer, and in 2006 brought with him as a thank-you present from his parishioners this handsome tapestry, evoking Peru, which occupies a permanent position in front of the altar at St Teresa's."
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