F. L. Forman
@formanofkent
Non nobis domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam
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The King’s Men, of the Choir of Kings’s College Cambridge, gracing the New Chapel this morning. Spiffing and uplifting I say!
Today we walked four miles along the White Cliffs of Dover to South Foreland Lighthouse and had coffee and scones in their little tea shop
A distant and blurred photograph of Dover Castle, illuminated and joined by a full and bright moon. A beacon welcoming me homeward.
Stellar images from a sublime evening. Hope is reaching England!
ENGLAND Catholic Mass is taking place at Canterbury Cathedral tonight to mark the Feast of the Translation of the Relics of Saint Thomas Becket
Happy and holy Solemnity of St Peter & St Paul. ‘Twas but a month ago that I ventured to St Paul’s outside the Walls and then to St Peter’s. Of the latter, we enjoyed unparalleled views, from a Curia roof terrace and as the last out from a 6pm mass, bookended by sunset.
Nao Santa Maria, the largest of Columbus’s three vessels sailed to the Americas on 1492. Much like the original, this faith remake has sailed across the world. Today it has made its way up the Thames, to Gravesend.
A morning circular around the garden, across the bridges and towards the orchard.
Good day, I’m in Italy (Wells). They’re not doing any ‘arm, It’s for the greater good etc
St John Fisher, my confirmation saint, was executed on this day in 1535. Holy and dedicated, he served in my town Rochester for 30 years and never took promotion. See these unique depictions from the English College in Rome, Hever Castle and the Martyr’s Chapel at Brompton.
Stopped off on in a market town on the way to the deepest Somerset countryside.
A packed evening at the National shrine of St Augustine, with Bishop Schneider. No better place than the church that Pugin designed, paid for, lived next door to and is buried in!
A leisurely walk into the village for a coffee and a browse. ‘Sometimes … I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.’ - Evelyn Waugh Today, I have escaped the above, this too frequent sensibility. Enjoy England!
A magisterial Jubilee Day for the Archdiocese of Southwark, gathered at the Friars in Aylesford. A magnificent foretelling of things to come, for our blessed England.
