Saturday, October 01, 2011

There is a really good report...

...on today's big Blessed Sacrament procession on this London news site...

The pics are particularly good as they show details of the event. Note the thurifer walking backwards so that he faces the Bl. Sacrament...and also note, in another pic, the splendid processional cross leading us...

It was a priviledge to have Bishop Alan Hopes with us, and all the clergy were really splendid: it was complicated because this was a long walk in which to carry, with due honour, a heavy monstrance - we crossed from Victoria through Westminster and down to the embankment, and then over the big bridge and thence via Lambeth and into Southwark...

On the way we passed, variously, the Victoria Tower gardens next to Parliament, Lambeth Palace, and the Imperial War Museum...somehow it is good to think of the Blessed Sacrament being carried, with prayer and praise, through our London like that...

2 comments:

Julia said...

so glad this was a success. Hope they do one next year and I am able to be there.


Julia

Manny said...

Beautiful. Looks like you had a really nice day too.