Our third church service of Sunday, 10 Aug was at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Unlike Westminster, the interior was painted—and white; add in the grand windows, and it was quite bright in there. Imagine travelling from a tenebrous and mysterious stone castle whose ceiling itself is nearly lost in shadow to this bright, white worship hall. Each […]
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Day 2: Hyde Park Ward
After Sung Eucharist at Westminster Abbey, we hurried off to South Kensington Station for the LDS church meeting with the Hyde Park Ward. It’s a small world for Mormons We had white shirts and ties but were hardly in our usual Sunday best, nevertheless, upon exiting the station, I made eye contact with a couple […]
Day 2: Westminster Abbey
Sunday morning, we visited Westminster Abbey for Sung Eucharist, scheduled for 11:15. Westminster Abbey is a grand, gothic edifice, and I found its architecture, music, and sculpture a garden of empyrean delights, the music most of all. We were obliged to leave the service before it was complete, shortly into the imparting of the sacraments. Given […]
Day 1: Globe Theatre
If you’re native to an English-speaking country, you’ve heard of the Globe Theatre. Two things all U.S. high school grads know are that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, and Shakespeare’s theatre was the Globe. My review of the Globe Theatre I had seen a drawing of the Globe in one of my high school […]