Father Duddleswell is convinced that his bottle of holy water has performed a miracle, a miracle he refuses to share.

Father Duddleswell decides that Neil is ready for fresh responsibilities and makes him official Catholic Chaplain to the local hospital.

Father Neil receives embarrassing attentions from Miss Davenport, which he must tolerate because she is a generous benefactor of the Parish.

Neil has to have his appendix removed, and Father Duddleswell is perturbed to note that Neil's nurse is young and extremely attractive.

A seaman dies in a rest home for sailors near St Jude's, but the man who runs the home is not sure whether Driscoll was a Catholic or a Protestant.

Father Duddleswell is consumed with the Christmas spirit. As housekeeper Mrs Pring comments: "When he's bad he's hard enough to live with, but when he's good he's awful"

Exhausted from performing several marriages, Father Duddleswell takes Father Boyd to the pictures as a treat -- where they are paged to return to the parish to perform one more forgotten wedding. After placating the angry families and seeing the young couple off on their honeymoon, Father Duddleswell realizes that he performed the ceremony after 6 pm, and therefore the bridge and groom are not legally married.