There is no foreign land; it is only the traveler that is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 15th 2015
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up… to more than I can be.
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6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 14th 2015
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Oxford 2014
Christ Church Cathedral Oxford
Built during the second half of the twelfth century, Christ Church Cathedral is among the oldest buildings in Oxford and one of the smallest of the 42 Anglican cathedrals in England. It is also, uniquely, both a cathedral and a college chapel, and so, unusually for a cathedral, its centre stalls face inwards in the [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Mar 11th 2015
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Christ Church Oxford
Christ Church was originally founded by Cardinal Wolsey as Cardinal’s College in 1524. The college buildings took over the site of St. Frideswide’s Monastery, which was suppressed by Wolsey to fund his college
The monastery dated back to the earliest days of Oxford as a settlement in the 9th Century AD. When Wolsey fell from power [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 10th 2015
There has never been a time when you and I and the kings gathered here have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 8th 2015
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Out & About
Imprisoned…
…John Gerard, Catholic Priest, 1597
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John Gerard (1564–1637) was an English Jesuit priest, operating covertly in England during the Elizabethan period in which the Catholic Church was subject to persecution.
John is noted not only for successfully hiding from the English authorities for eight years before his capture, but for enduring extensive torture, escaping from the Tower of London and, [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 3rd 2015
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Mark 11:24
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 15th 2015
