Geoff Lowson has retired as parish priest of Holy Saviour's Church, Tynemouth. After 9 years of hard work, he is putting his feet up (possibly) in York, where the next stage on his journey will commence. He flitted in to Holy Saviours like Bede's sparrow 9 years ago, and now he flits on to whatever life holds.
Geoff preached some extremely thought provoking sermons, to which YC was always glad to lend an ear and dissect afterwards, over a cup of tea or possibly something stronger in The Tynemouth Lodge. Indeed only tonight Geoff was reflecting on the word "Mass" - meaning "Go out" from the service. YC confesses to thinking that the Latin translation was a tad wide of the mark. But having consulted his favourite dictionary, YC can only say: "Oh ye of little faith!" The trusty dictionary defines Mass as deriving from Ite missa est - Go it is the dismissal.