...and I had promised to show visiting American Matt Pinto and his family and colleagues around London: so we gathered at Precious Blood Church and joined the parish procession to the War Memorial in the Borough High Street. As always, it was dignified and moving: "O God our help in ages past..." the chimes of Big Ben, relayed from Westminster (an innovation in recent years, made possible by new technology) marking the start of the Silence at 11am, the booming of guns as it finished...wreaths laid, prayers...
As it all finished, we processed back again to Precious Blood for Mass, which concluded with the National Anthem...
A pub lunch, long and talkative, then a walk across the Thames...history...Viking battles... the Tower...the Great Fire of 1666... and on to Kensington where they are all staying...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment