Today we went to Westminster Abbey. It kind of reminded me of my trip a couple summers ago at the Vatican in Italy—there’s too much beauty and history to take in in one visit. I saw the coronation chair of Edward the 1st…made in the 1300’s! :-0 I also saw the main alter where Princess Diana was married and where nearly every monarch has been crowned. I felt dizzy for a few minutes. It’s so hard to believe how old the things in there were, some dating back to the 900’s.
The Church from the outside.
In the Cloisters...Pictures were not allowed inside the church, sadly. L I don’t think my pictures would have done the chapels, architecture, mosaics and tombs justice anyway.
^////^ (That’s a blushing face, haha). I lit a candle and said a little prayer for all of you at Westminster—I miss you all so much!
I saw the tombs of Elizabeth 1, Mary 1 and Mary, Queen of Scotts---also Dickens, Tennyson, Kipling and the Bronte sisters and SO many others. It was interesting to read their epitaphs, too. So overwhelming! I felt like I should bow down and kiss Dickens’s headstone, but I refrained. Josh, Maddie, Gurinder and I are planning to go back and attend a service there when the choir is singing. We’ve already been down to the church on our street for a service and it was somewhere between a Catholic and Lutheran service. Lots of kneeling, muttering, kissing of the Bible, and there was a very somber mood…kind of calming in a way. We took communion—the vicar feeds you, and the communion wine wasn’t grape juice. I tried not to choke on the wine when I was up there, kneeling at the front.
No comments:
Post a Comment