The solemn Lauda Sion is just beginning at the London Oratory at the close of this year's Quarant 'Ore; and soon Solemn Benediction will signal the end of the event for 2010.
You have all been much in my prayers during it; and I pray that you will all be richly blessed - first of all in the Passiontide and Holy Week which lie immediately ahead - but more generally in the year to come : and I thank all those who have supported this splendid event with their prayers.
The 40 hours were maganificent as always at the Oratory, although I must confess I find Mendelssohn a bit too rumpy trumpety for my liking.
ReplyDeleteI do wish they would use the old rite to open and close the 40 hours because in the new rite, mass before the Blessed Sacrment is abolished.