News Item: : Birthday in Llandudno
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Saturday 08 November 2008 - 13:22:00
The champagne was uncorked today for Angeline's birthday!
First, we motored over to Llandudno for a celebratory day out, which included a brisk walk along the chilly, promenade in the fading light of the late afternoon.
A major part of our day was spent in visiting the Catholic Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea; which dates to 1893.
The beauty of the original interior is largely intact and we were blessed to spend an hour in Eucharistic Adoration.
From the cleanliness, warmth and attention to detail it is obvious that this church is maintained with much love and devotion.
The positioning of the newer altar on the edge of the sanctuary steps would make celebrations of the Holy Sacrifice in the Extraordinary Form difficult. However the majesty of the original, High Altar surely invites some lateral thinking to assist in the liturgical reforms and possibilities opened up by Pope Benedict XVI's Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum of 2007. In any case, the church is blessed with two splendid, side chapels with original high altars still extant; one is dedicated to Our Lady, and one to St. Joseph. Â
As a convert from Anglicanism (in 1993) I was saddened to discover the fate of St. George's in Church Walks when we went over to pray, and gain the indulgence, for the dead in the churchyard there. St. George's was opened in 1840 and was a place we attended on Sundays during childhood holidays.
We learned that the church died away in 2002 and has now become the latest victim of the post-modern secularisation of British society. St. George's is now called Church Walks Data Storage, having been reinvented as a storage depot to keep electronic data with 24 hour camera surveillance! Nevertheless, the graves remain, and so we went in to say our prayers for the dead. We're not sure what the security camera personnel would make of us standing around the graves in the failing light! As we left, I mentioned to Angie how post-Christian it all seemed and how much it reminded me of weird futuristic movies we'd watched years ago; such as Bladerunner! or Freejack!
That sense of a post-Christian (and even post-civilised culture) was continually brought home as we browsed the stores and were reminded just how much impurity, violence and rampant individualism now dominates the economic, marketplace. And then, when we encountered a couple of retired ladies kissing in the street we decided it was high time to return home to leave the moral wasteland and head back to the 'desert' of the Welsh countryside and villages and have a bit of birthday cake and some champagne!Â
Now, here is a philosophical question; Why have a small, pink Mr. Kipling's French Fondant Fancy...
...when you can have a BIG pink, Mr. Kipling's French Fondant Fancy?!!!
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(Category: Torch of The Faith News)
Posted by admin
Saturday 08 November 2008 - 13:22:00
The champagne was uncorked today for Angeline's birthday!First, we motored over to Llandudno for a celebratory day out, which included a brisk walk along the chilly, promenade in the fading light of the late afternoon.A major part of our day was spent in visiting the Catholic Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea; which dates to 1893.The beauty of the original interior is largely intact and we were blessed to spend an hour in Eucharistic Adoration.From the cleanliness, warmth and attention to detail it is obvious that this church is maintained with much love and devotion.
The positioning of the newer altar on the edge of the sanctuary steps would make celebrations of the Holy Sacrifice in the Extraordinary Form difficult. However the majesty of the original, High Altar surely invites some lateral thinking to assist in the liturgical reforms and possibilities opened up by Pope Benedict XVI's Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum of 2007. In any case, the church is blessed with two splendid, side chapels with original high altars still extant; one is dedicated to Our Lady, and one to St. Joseph. Â
As a convert from Anglicanism (in 1993) I was saddened to discover the fate of St. George's in Church Walks when we went over to pray, and gain the indulgence, for the dead in the churchyard there. St. George's was opened in 1840 and was a place we attended on Sundays during childhood holidays.We learned that the church died away in 2002 and has now become the latest victim of the post-modern secularisation of British society. St. George's is now called Church Walks Data Storage, having been reinvented as a storage depot to keep electronic data with 24 hour camera surveillance! Nevertheless, the graves remain, and so we went in to say our prayers for the dead. We're not sure what the security camera personnel would make of us standing around the graves in the failing light! As we left, I mentioned to Angie how post-Christian it all seemed and how much it reminded me of weird futuristic movies we'd watched years ago; such as Bladerunner! or Freejack!
That sense of a post-Christian (and even post-civilised culture) was continually brought home as we browsed the stores and were reminded just how much impurity, violence and rampant individualism now dominates the economic, marketplace. And then, when we encountered a couple of retired ladies kissing in the street we decided it was high time to return home to leave the moral wasteland and head back to the 'desert' of the Welsh countryside and villages and have a bit of birthday cake and some champagne!Â
Now, here is a philosophical question; Why have a small, pink Mr. Kipling's French Fondant Fancy......when you can have a BIG pink, Mr. Kipling's French Fondant Fancy?!!!This news item is from Torch of The Faith
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