Archive for February, 2019

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Stepping Out

In May last year I committed to a walking challenge of 10000 steps per day for 50 days:
I know there are some days, that I will not be able to achieve that step count in a day. When I am travelling long distances in a car to meet up with family or go to a [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2019

I have only just got round to organising and editing my photographs from my recent Valentines break at Shibden Mill in Yorkshire.

My holiday anecdotes are coming soon, but for now enjoy our room with a patio.

8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2019

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
Psalms 17:8

4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 24th 2019

Arundel took part in the ‘There but not there’ national commemorative  project by installing 93 silhouettes representing Arundel’s ‘Roll of Honour’.

The project’s aims were simple:
Commemorate those who died in the First World War through installations of silhouettes and Tommies wherever there is a Roll of Honour.
To Educate all generations, particularly today’s younger generation, born nearly 100 years after [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2019

…The Cathedral of Our Lady and Saint Philip Howard

My previous posts explained what happened to the Arundel church building after King Henry VIII parted from the Church of Rome and declared himself Head of The Church of England. Despite Henry’s actions Catholic missionary priests were able to continue their teachings in Arundel:

The reign of King [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 20th 2019

Following on from my previous post where the 12th Earl surrendered the collegiate chapel to King Henry VIII, subsequential purchasing it back and being required to provide an annual rent to the King :

The nave [of the church] continued as the parish church of Arundel. As the effects of the Reformation took hold the church [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2019

In 1380 the 4th Earl of Arundel, Richard Fitzalan, founded a secular College of Canons, that is to say, a community of clergy to maintain daily worship and pray for the souls of the founder’s family. This initiated the building of the church you see today. From the beginning the church was divided into two [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 18th 2019

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