When I awoke after another comfortable night’s sleep Mr C presented me with a small pile of presents for my birthday. I had a lot of fun opening them to find a couple of books, a Wrendale mug (to add to our collection) and the much-anticipated expansion pack to my board game Apiary.
After a slow [...]
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Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, St Albans 2024
St Albans – Day Two
I woke up suitably refreshed after a good night’s sleep. We decided not have breakfast in the hotel restaurant; there were many other options nearby. Mr C settled on ‘Café on the Corner’ which we found was run by a community charity, helping people who have limited learning capabilities or difficulties. We had to wait [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 16th 2024
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
John Keats
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 10th 2024
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The Wanderer Returns…
… from a birthday adventure
or… was it just a welcome time to chill out
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 7th 2024
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
Roland Allen
20 Comments CherryPie on Nov 4th 2024
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Rome 2024
The Holy Crib
Commissioned by Pope Pius IX (1846-78), Roman architect Virginio Vespignani built the Confessio (1861-64) in front of the Papal Altar. Vespignani used some 70 different types of marble, mostly from extractions that occurred concurrently in Rome and Ostia.
The Confessio recalls the importance of Saint Mary Major as the Bethlehem of the West and as Rome’s Basilica [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 3rd 2024
