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Corpus Christi 2020

Corpus Christi meaning Body of Christ is a feast of celebration and thanksgiving for the institution of the Holy Communion. It is kept today 11 June, a Thursday, to recall Maundy Thursday and we celebrate again because normally we can be more joyful now than in Holy Week. The Mass has been hard to find […]

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Corpus Christi 2020

Corpus Christi meaning Body of Christ is a feast of celebration and thanksgiving for the institution of the Holy Communion. It is kept today 11 June, a Thursday, to recall Maundy Thursday and we celebrate again because normally we can be more joyful now than in Holy Week. The Mass has been hard to find […]

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Trinity Sunday 2020

Trinity Sunday was first celebrated by Bishop Stephen of Liège in the early 10th century and by the twelfth century the custom had spread to France where it was observed at Cluny Abbey. Archbishop Thomas Becket introduced it to England having been consecrated and as Archbishop at Canterbury Cathedral on the Sunday after Pentecost (or […]

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Pentecost 2020

There are no Whit Walks, no Goosnargh cakes, no petal showers and no rushes strewn in the aisles. But Sunday is Pentecost. “The churches are still locked,” writes Christopher Howse in Saturday’s Telegraph. “But that has never been an obstacle to the Holy Spirit.”

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Pentecost 2020

There are no Whit Walks, no Goosnargh cakes, no petal showers and no rushes strewn in the aisles. But Sunday is Pentecost. “The churches are still locked,” writes Christopher Howse in Saturday’s Telegraph. “But that has never been an obstacle to the Holy Spirit.”

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Ascension Day 2020

Ascension Day on Thursday 21 May is the spiritual climax of the year. This Thursday marks Christ’s last resurrection appearance to the disciples who report seeing him ascend. St Paul said that Christ had been seen by over 500 men and women between resurrection (Easter) and ascension. For some years Ascension Day has been largely […]

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Rogation & walking

The sixth Sunday of Easter is also known as Rogation Sunday since many of this week’s Rogation walks now normally happen on the Sunday. Without the virus there would have been a tour of parish boundaries, known as beating the bounds, in Cambridge (Little St Mary’s), a procession through the town at Leighton Buzzard (The […]

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Rogation & walking

The sixth Sunday of Easter is also known as Rogation Sunday since many of this week’s Rogation walks now normally happen on the Sunday. Without the virus there would have been a tour of parish boundaries, known as beating the bounds, in Cambridge (Little St Mary’s), a procession through the town at Leighton Buzzard (The […]

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May Day Singing goes on

Tower top singing at Magdalen College Oxford has been taking place early on May morning since 1509. Will it happen tomorrow? Yes, although not from the Great Tower. The 28 members of the choir will be singing the Hymnus Eucharisticus and a traditional madrigal remotely from their homes around the country. To follow at 6am […]

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Liturgical year in the City

An unusual book has been quietly published during the current lock-down. A launch event would have highlighted the result of the special project which has been supported by a number of individuals, livery companies and churches in The City. Faith in the City of London by Niki Gorick is a photographic book depicting activities in […]

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