The vivid glass, by Tom Denny, was commissioned in 1990 and installed in 1992 to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the beginning of Abbot Serlo’s building of the new abbey in 1089. The theme of the windows is that of ‘praise’. Tom’s inspiration being Psalm 148: ‘Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in [...]
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Gloucester Cathedral – The Chapel of St Thomas
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 1st 2016
An intimate space for worship and contemplation, Gloucester Cathedral’s magnificent Lady Chapel was the last part of the church to be built during the Medieval period in the 15th century.
Dedicated to ‘Our Lady’, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, the Lady Chapel is unique in its design and decoration.
It has a vaulted roof [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 29th 2016
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Gloucester Cathedral
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2016
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Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral has been a place of Christian worship continuously for over 1,300 years, since Osric, an Anglo-Saxon prince, founded a religious house here in 678-9 AD. Little is known for certain about the communities which worshipped here or the buildings they used over the next 400 years although it is believed that the Benedictine [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 26th 2016
Throughout my whole life, during every minute of it, the world has been gradually lighting up and blazing before my eyes until it has come to surround me, entirely lit from within.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2016
If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
St. John of the Cross
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 7th 2016
The Angel that presided o’er my birth
Said, “Little creature, form’d of Joy and Mirth,
“Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.”
William Blake
2 Comments CherryPie on Jan 10th 2016
