...of Southwark celebrated Mass today at Precious Blood Church, London Bridge, and blessed the new Shrine to Blessed John Henry Newman which has just been established in the church. It is a beautiful shrine, with a portrait of Newman (copy of the famous Millais portrait, from the National Portrait gallery), in a side-chapel, on the left as you walk up the main aisle towards the sanctuary.
A glorious Mass with good singing, and a particularly delightful moment when the children from the Sunday school trooped up for a blessing. Just for a moment, the scene had the look of a painting: "Sunday in a South London parish", with the line of children two-by-two at the foot of the sanctuary steps, and the candles gleaming and the Archbishop bending to bless a child, and the first of this year's sunshine finally managing to show itself through the high windows on this May morning.
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