New page on Vocations

There is a new page on the parish website, asking the question "Is God calling you to be a priest?" and giving some hints on how to find out the answer.

All pages validated

OK, that's done. All the pages are valid xhtml and the two css files are valid. Among other things, this means that the site is accessible to those using non-visual browsers. It also means that the pages should load reasonably quickly and come out sensibly in various browsers.

I use Firefox myself. The file size is very much smaller than Internet Explorer and it has some added features - most notably you can open pages in separate "tabs" rather than having to open several windows. I am also very much in favour of "open source" software which is available to everyone throughout the world free of charge.

(However, I have checked the website using Internet Explorer and it seems to work OK.)

Website - new look

I have just updated the website with the new minimialist "look and feel". This has mostly been achieved by changing the css and a few global "find & replace" operations but it was necessary also to edit the files to put the picture box within the main division. There may be one or two glitches. I will now check the pages to see that they are valid xhtml and valid css. That will iron out some problems; but if you spot any typos or strange behaviour of the pages, please let me know by email.

New feature for Our Lady of the Rosary

This blog is set up in order to give parishioners and others updated news relating to the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen. The separation of the "news" element from the main website will enable the news to be updated more easily and the website to retain a consistent Homepage and navigation for users.

In the nature of the case, this blog is for announcements only. Therefore comments are generally disabled. This also saves me from having to police comments, delete spam etc.

Basic information for the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary is at the main parish website.

Fr Finigan's personal blog is The Hermeneutic of Continuity.