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You know, people coming together to witness to Jesus Christ on the streets of our capital city.

You know, this long procession going through the center of London, you know, from Southwark Cathedral to Westminster Cathedral and walking with our Eucharistic Lord on the streets of our capital city and singing and praying.

And it was just a wonderful experience of faith and a great witness of hope.

And what struck me most with it all was how joyful it was.

But nobody in it is.

thick no one's hysterical no one is this 2d sketch of a person and that's why it's an effective story I mean more than just effective it's Jane Eyre but this for me just didn't it didn't hit it really didn't what am I missing guys because I've seen a lot of people online talk about how brilliant this book is what am I missing I answer's on a postcard i've got one more um so i have just started having finished um you did nothing wrong and turn of the screw i am reading young and damned and fair by gareth russell so i picked this up at an event at southwark cathedral at the beginning of the year which was about the six wives so there were six lectures one per and Gareth Russell did Catherine Howard, which is what this book is about.

And I got it signed because I'm a big nerd.

And I've been so looking forward to reading this because Gareth Russell is an incredible storyteller.

I just love him.

I'm such a fangirl.

And I think a lot of the depictions of her in fiction have her as a very... silly light-hearted girl like i'm thinking uh the tudors tv series with jonathan reese myers she's very sort of simple and very you know sort of just doe-eyed you know and a bit silly And actually, some of the stuff that, you know, Gareth said in his talk at Southwark Cathedral, he was like, you know, she was very, she understood etiquette.

You know, the way she handled meeting Anne of Cleves.

Set in Venice in 1817, it begins with a fingerless nobleman seizing a puffin that arrives mysteriously at the Rialto market, putting the bird on a collision course with the worst and best humanity has to offer.

Lovrick will be interviewed about the book at London's Southwark Cathedral on Monday 26th October at 6.30pm.

In non-fiction, Catherine Simpson's new memoir Sandwiched, Caring Up and Caring Down has been published by Saraband Books.

It tells the story of how Simpson cared for her elderly father with Alzheimer's and her adult autistic daughter who was going through a mental health crisis during the pandemic.

Thank you for listening to this Southwark Cathedral podcast.

On Saturday the 3rd of October, the Cathedral celebrated a service for Black History Month.

It was a wonderful service honouring communities, sharing stories, and it was presided over by Bishop Rosemary.

Black people make up around 16% of the population served by this diocese.

That means hundreds of thousands of black people living across the communities represented here today.

And what would they have thought if somebody had told them that one day we would gather, not hidden away somewhere, but here in Southwark Cathedral to celebrate black history? I suspect they may have struggled to believe us and yet here we are.

That in itself is history.

And the history of black people in Britain is not simply a history of what was done to us.

Good morning and a very warm welcome here to Southwark Cathedral this morning and please do know just how welcome you are this morning

because this is a special day in the diocese, it's an important month

in our nation and all of us here I know feel very energised to be participating in both of them.

Blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honour, power and might be to our God for ever and ever.

Amen.

Good morning and welcome to Southwark Cathedral and to everyone joining us online from across the Diocese of Southwark and beyond.

It's my joy and privilege to gather us together for this service of Thanksgiving for Black History Month.

It's quite poignant for me as Acting Bishop of Southwark and also as the National Co-Lead Bishop for Racial Justice to be here marking the diocese's 19th annual celebration.

Welcome to this new podcast from Southwark Cathedral.

My name's Mark Oakley and I'm the Dean here at the Cathedral and today I am delighted to be with Canon Tim Good who is Canon for Congregational Discipleship and Nurture at York Minster and a National Disability Advocate.

Tim, hello.

I, I remember, you've just reminded me, I was working for, uh, well, I was working with an insurance client actually, and we were working on their, um, customer experience strategy.

And we had a little bit of a, a workshop, and we actually went out around London Bridge area, um, where your, uh, background is actually, and I took them to Southwark Cathedral.

We w- walked over to Southwark Cathedral because I was talking about- This very thing, how you can really affect people's emotion and how you, how you can affect the way that people feel.

And I think church is, you know, and anywhere religious and spiritual, it does have that, that sort of magical impact on us, doesn't it? Because it changes our behavior, the candles, um, the smell, the incense, the gold, the lighting, the whole building and how it's been created.

And I think no matter what religion you are, it, it does have that impact.