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UPDATE: The St John Fisher-organised Peace Service, due on 1st Jan, has been postponed, revised date t.b.a. Online broadcast at: https://www.churchservices.tv/merton.   Recently the patronal statue at St John Fisher has been enhanced by a plaque, soliciting his prayers. The plaque was made by a parishioner who answered an advert in the SJF weekly "Fisherman's Herald" for a D-I-Y enthusiast. In the 1980's many churches were 'reordered' to allow Holy Mass to be celebrated with the priest facing the people. At St John Fisher the opportunity was taken to fully refurbish the church, the is probable the piece of timber was sourced from redundant stocks of seasoned material held at the local Royal Navy Dockyard, Chatham, in Fisher's diocese, it has been suggested that it nay have lain there since his time. Those who lived in the Parish at that time knew that it represented Fisher but there was no written statement at the statue. Now, some 30-odd years later, new arrivals in the parish can read whom the statue represents and those who know are encouraged to seek his prayers.
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