MONTHLY ALBUM
Back to Study We recently said farewell to Lorcán Keller, who leaves the Cathedral to move down the road to Allen Hall in Chelsea as a diocesan seminarian. He has been visible in the Cathedral of late, helping with the stewarding, but his time here has been spent at the desk preparing the many booklets and sheets needed for both regular and special services, as well as carrying out a whole range of other design work. His farewell card, you may be able to see, features a group of gorillas and the text ‘Where are you going to find such a diverse bunch of likeable characters as us?’
Boxed In With the return of the choir, it was time for a Maintenance Department Special! The Art and Architecture Committee has not, so far as we know, given a verdict yet on the perspex box which now either protects the conductor from the choir or vice versa. The hope is that it will not be needed permanently; and perhaps future generations will find the box at the back of the Crypt Store, as we now find many other disused artefacts, and wonder what its use could ever have been.
Seen, but not Venerated The Exaltation of the Holy Cross is also the feast when we are normally able to venerate one of the Cathedral’s two relics of the True Cross. Should the feast fall on a Sunday, numbers make it impracticable to allow individual veneration, but otherwise this is a treasured act of Cathedral devotion. Coronavirus precautions made veneration impossible this year; here, however, is one of the relics in close-up. 18
Oremus
October 2020
