Friday, June 11, 2010

A glorious Mass and procession...

...at Westminster Cathedral and around the nearby streets, with a vast crowd following the Blessed Sacrament as it was carried under a canopy by the Archbishop...all bathed in the evening sunlight and resounding to splendid singing ...it was extraordinary, moving, and memorable. As we rounded into the piazza to return via the great doors of the Cathedral it was a truly magnificent sight, and it did feel as though there had been a great blessing on all of London...

This was all the mark the close of the Year for Priests, and in his sermon Archbishop Vincent Nichols spoke of the Pope who had just completed a similar Mass in Rome, and quoted him at some length, noting the solemn and important things he had said...

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