The article in the News at the weekend about the attempted entry of the nuclear submarine base at Faslane https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80mej47xz0o reminded me of my late friend, Father Florian OSB, a member of the Bavarian Benedictine Abbey but stationed as a missionary in Kenya.
His obituary can be found HERE.
He told me that as a student he and a friend had gone on a cycling tour of Scotland. On a Sunday morning, he found himself outside Rhu and enquired of a local as to where they might find Mass. They were informed that a priest said Mass every Sunday at the Submarine Base at Faslane. Off they rode to the base and were duly admitted.
I told this story to the current Commander of the base who nearly had a fit!
