...of students at the Maryvale Institute. The traditional ceremony at St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham. There is now a sense of familiarity as I walk in the academic procession. The teaching staff come from a variety of universities and I enjoy wearing my Challoner-rose MA hood from St Mary's, Twickenham. There is a special joy at Maryvale this year because of St John Henry Newman's canonisation: Maryvale was his home after leaving Littlemore, and it was he who gave the house its name...
The graduation ceremony concludes, as usual, with Vespers, led by Fr Guy Nichols Cong.Orat. and we sing Newman's Praise to the Holiest with the music surging up to the great gothic arches
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