Letter from Broadstairs 1
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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Dear members of Bishop Williamson’s family, dear close friends, my Lords, I should say also, ladies and gentlemen, dear Fathers, dear seminarians, dear Brothers and Sisters, dear faithful, and anybody else I may have forgotten, we are gathered here today for the solemn funeral of His Excellency, His Lordship, Bishop Richard Nelson Williamson.
You will be saying, first of all, we are not in a church, we are not in a cathedral, we are not in a basilica, we are not in a chapel. We are in a simple hall, which was built actually as a drill hall, a place to practise marching for soldiers going to the front in the First World War. And the dear Bishop would certainly have seen the pleasant irony in the situation. As his Lordship often used to say we are at war against the world, the flesh and the devil. We are at war also against all these modern errors, we at war for our salvation. And in so saying, Bishop Williamson …