Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.
Dolly Parton
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1 Comment CherryPie on Feb 16th 2025
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Stratford-upon-Avon 2025
A Return Visit
… for Valentine’s Day
2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 16th 2025
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Luke 11:9
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2025
Filed under Holidays, St Albans 2024
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
4 Comments CherryPie on Feb 2nd 2025
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2025
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, St Albans 2024
The Font, St Albans Cathedral
This font holds water for baptisms. Baptism marks the start of the Christian life, when someone becomes a follower of Jesus Christ. A prist blesses the water and pours it over the person’s head as a symbol of this new faith.
The font was made in 1934 and its huge cover shows the four gospel writers [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 25th 2025
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The Medieval West Doors, St Albans Cathedral
This enormous pair of doors once stood at the main entrance to the church at the far west end of the Nave. They date from the 1400s when the church was at the centre of England’s leading abbey.
The doors were opened wide for religious processions. For everyday use, monks and visiting pilgrims used the small [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 24th 2025