Posted on 09/07/2014 10:09:17 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster and the Archbishop of Canterbury will both be taking part in services in Leicester Cathedral to mark the reinterment of King Richard III, it has been announced.
This means the most senior clergy of both the Church of England and the Catholic Church in the country will be present as the former monarch is laid to rest during a week of events from 22nd - 28th March next year.
Since the discovery of the body of Richard III in 2012, the Anglican Diocese of Leicester and the Catholic Diocese of Nottingham have worked closely to ensure that his reinterment in Leicester Cathedral, the mediaeval parish church of Leicester, will be celebrated with dignity and prayer.
(Excerpt) Read more at itv.com ...
“A hearse! A hearse! My kingdom for a hearse!”
*Ping* in case you have an interest.
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures....
“Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,
And all their ministers attend on him.”
- William Shakespeare, “Richard III”
(face palm)
The Nova episode where they find his body is fascinating.
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable. That dogs bark at me as I halt by them. Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity.
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams.
To set my brother Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other.
And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false and treacherous.
This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up, About a prophecy, which says that 'G' Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here Clarence comes.
Good — I was beginning to worry that they just leave him to the vultures
Scared the catz, that laugh did.
/johnny
Thanks; very kind of you. We’re all against it - we want our guy in either Windsor or York not a lousy Victorian church. And with an RC service! But I really appreciate you pinging me.
That might be because like all other Englishmen at the time, Dickey the third was a Roman Catholic.
Well, yeah...
In any case, there has been a fight to get him - solely - a Catholic burial - a battle which, typically, Ricardians lost. I think at this point it’s one of those interdenominational services. It might be the service in which they’re charging 2,500 pounds a head. There’s so many rip-off events attached to this.
A State Funeral also known as a Democratic Party Fund Raiser.
GROAN.
Good one but...groan.
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