...of a warm July day, a group of History Walkers making their way from Westminster Cathedral (which is dedicated to the Precious Blood of Christ) to the Church of the Precious Blood at London Bridge. The image of Mary and the Christ-child on the Westminster City Hall's coat-of-arms, the streets around Westminster Abbey (St Ann's, St Matthew's...Abbey Orchard Street...) echoing with memories of the long-ago monks...the glorious spires of Parliament matching, by intent and design and with a profound sense of the meaning of things, the spires of the adjoining Abbey...and down along the teeming South Bank of the Thames, crowds, restaurants, cafes, street-theatre...stunning views of St Paul's and hideous ones of the ghastly giant "walkie-talkie" and associated tower-blocks which are wrecking our city...
---and so to London Bridge, via the Globe Theatre and the Bishop of Winchester's old palace and more...and then through the Borough Market, and to Mass at Precious Blood Church, the steady peaceful message of the liturgy, a sense of coming home...
It's a longish walk along the river, took us a couple of hours partly because of the crowds...but it was a beautiful evening, and the cheery supper provided by the welcoming Ordinariate team at PrBl Church was a joyful conclusion to a happy day...
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