...St Patrick's, Soho. Crowded. A fine choir and lovely music.
The Pure in Heart prayer group had invited me to lead them in a Catholic History Walk: word had spread and there was a large crowd. Things started with a lively talkative lunch at a pizza restaurant - lots of tables pulled together, much enjoyable conversation - and then we set off along the Charing Cross Road, meeting further group members at St Martin-in-the-Fields, and heading along the Strand and then down to the river...
We pondered the history of St Giles and the poor sufferers from leprosy who lived there over the years....we looked across at what is now Trafalgar Square and saw it as fields belonging to the monks of Westminster...we walked along the Strand and imagined the river lapping at its edges before the big Embankment was built....and we linked all of this to the great events of the rolling centuries and to monarchs and controvesie and achievements and battles, and more....this was a really enjoyable afternoon, and things lingered agreeably over drinks as the walk finished at Waterloo Bridge and we sauntered across to the South Bank...
More on Catholic History Walks here...
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