LEO COSHAN'S ORDINATION AT ST. JOSEPH'S BURSLEM
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Come, come, follow me
Come and see where I live.
Come and see what I shall give
to those who follow me. 

Rising at the horrible hour of 5 a m, Maurice and I reached Rcdhill,station
in good time for the 6.15 to Victoria. As the booking office does not open

until 6.15 it was fortunate that the train was late. We caught the 7.55 Euston Stoke train and settled down in the nearest coach to the buffet car, where we were joined by Mary Walsh. We were also joined by a former fellow

parishioner of Leo's from Wimbledon who had heard us talk about Leo. The
carriage was full of sisters from various orders who reappeared again in St. Joseph's Ghurch. We had only 10 minutes to wait for our connection to Langport and as the bookstall sold the local street map we soon reached
St. Joseph's Church. Phllomena, Betty, Joan, Joe O'Reilly, John and Maddi
travelleq by car. Leo's family hired a coach. 

 
The Church was packed. There were 22 priests concelebrating the Ordination Mass and people from the other local Churches had been invited. Bishop Cleary ordained Leo. The singing of the congregation was marvellous and very enthusiastic. The sunlight streamed through the window onto the sanctuary and onto the celebrants. After Mass we queued up for Leo's blessing then went into the school hall where we did justice to the
delicious and ample spread provided by the parishioners. Helen Burke
who had come with a group from her parish joined us for a bit. She told us that her blind club did a lot of rambling and would like to find more  volunteers to lead rambles and to act as guides.

We left early as we intended to walk to Stoke and go round the shops,
but sudden snow storm had us enquiring about buses to Stoke. We
wralked round the market in Stoke but the shopping centre was  disappointing. Apparently all the big stores are in Hanley. 

The people of Leo's parish are very warm and friendly. The Church is
a Romanesque building built in the economic depression of 1927. The stained glass Windows and paintings were designed an executed by the people of the parish, artist.s who work ln the pottery industry.

DOROTHY HICKMAN