{"id":539,"date":"2012-10-08T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T16:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/?p=539"},"modified":"2012-10-31T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T09:25:09","slug":"the-dedication-of-the-church-and-blessing-of-the-convent-and-other-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"The Dedication of the Church and Blessing of the Convent and other buildings."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The high point of the year was undoubtedly the 14th July when our visitor, the Rt Rev\u2019d Dr David Hope, dedicated our conventual church and blessed the convent and other buildings. The 14th July has traditionally always been the date of our Dedication, being our foundress, Mother Elizabeth Neale\u2019s birthday. Last year we were still in the throes of unpacking, the guest house wasn\u2019t ready and as we still wished to keep the festival on the 14th July we had to wait for another year. It was a hard job deciding whom to invite as the church is not quite the same size as Southwell Minster! In the end we managed to squeeze 93 guests in, though a few had to sit outside the west door. Sr Mary Cuthbert came down from Yorkshire and Sr Mary Hannah came back from Korea for a month for the ceremony so we were all here for the first time since a year ago last May.\u00a0 Religious from a number of Anglican Communities came and also some Roman Catholic friends and neighbours from Mount St Bernard Abbey and the Franciscan Sisters from Melton.<\/p>\n

Bishop David was assisted by our Warden, Canon Gavin Kirk, and Honorary Chaplain, Canon Kenneth Court. Thanks to a suggestion from the Dean of Southwell Minster, the Ven John Guille, our singing was augmented by four members of the Minster Chorale: Margaret Gale, Angela Ashwin, Helen Mather and Susan Dawson, who had to learn some Latin plainsong having never sung it before. Accompaniment was provided by Aric Prentice, the director of music at Lincoln Minster. I think we can say the celebration was wonderful, made even better by, after weeks of rain, the sun coming out after Mass allowing us to eat lunch out in the garden.<\/p>\n

More photos from the day can be seen here<\/a><\/p>\n

The service booklet can be seen here<\/a><\/p>\n

Sermon given by Rt Rev\u2019d Dr David Hope<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The high point of the year was undoubtedly the 14th July when our visitor, the Rt Rev\u2019d Dr David Hope, dedicated our conventual church and blessed the convent and other buildings. The 14th July has traditionally always been the date of our Dedication, being our foundress, Mother Elizabeth Neale\u2019s birthday. Last year we were still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holycrosschc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}