The Rev. Dr. Robert Willis, past Dean of Canterbury Cathedral believed that all God’s creatures had a place in the choir—he gave us all a needed smile during a dark time with the Covid lockdowns and his feline-filled sermons.
May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
Here's the @ChurchTimes piece on retirement of Robert Willis and his garden congregation, which regularly got 20,000 viewers, more if his cat appeared. He was a force for good. One viewer told him: “I tuned in for the cat and stayed for the catechism.” https://t.co/unFE2MZmHZ
Devastated 2 hear of the death of Dean Emeritus of Canterbury Cathedral, Rev. Robert Willis in New Haven, Connecticut.He was my daily companion during Covid as I became a virtual member of his Garden Congregation, following him prayerfully,as the long years crawled by. May he RIP