Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Anecdotes, Faith Foundations, Holidays
… for now
Last week it was my 94 year old Aunt’s funeral which we were responsible for organising. We live two hours away from her so this meant a lot of time in the car to and fro to get things arranged. We also had to tie in when people including the Church Minister were [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jun 21st 2019
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Jesmond Dene & Cornhill 2018
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
Richard Bach
16 Comments CherryPie on Jun 16th 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
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Kent & Chichester 2018
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
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…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
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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
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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
