On Wednesday, 10 September, The Administrator, Canon Tuckwell blessed the newly-installed mosaic of Cardinal John Henry Newman. It is located high on the wall to the left of the Chapel of the Holy Souls.
Should have left room for an "S." in front of his name, in light of our hopes of his prompt canonization! Now you'll have to do the whole of the bottom bit all over again when the time comes - although this, perhaps, would be a joyful labour.
It's always good to see new mosaics go up - I don't get to visit the Cathedral very often, so every time I pop in there seems to be something new.
I was ordained at 50 in 1992. My working life had been spent as an advertising copywriter (25 years). For 11 of my 16 years as a priest I have been a Cathedral Chaplain. For the rest, I have been a Parish Priest in Kensington and in Ashford, Middlesex. I am far too fat. I don't think the saints ever were,except Thomas Aquinas. That bothers me! I grew up in Devon in the 1950s. I saw the future Queen (Princess Elizabeth) when she opened Princesshay in Exeter. We had a day off school to wave.
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Should have left room for an "S." in front of his name, in light of our hopes of his prompt canonization! Now you'll have to do the whole of the bottom bit all over again when the time comes - although this, perhaps, would be a joyful labour.
It's always good to see new mosaics go up - I don't get to visit the Cathedral very often, so every time I pop in there seems to be something new.
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