Evening Prayer, Tuesday 23rd April 2024 - St George's Day
April 28, 2024
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This St George's Day join Dean Robert ("The Green Dean") and partner Fletcher on a tour of the Black Mountains, incorporating visits to some of their favourite places and the grave of metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan whilst enjoying Evening Prayer and Compline.
The Garden Congregation:
When the Archbishop decided to close all churches to their clergy because of the Covid pandemic in March 2020, in addition and separately to the closure of churches to their congregations - which did make sense to stop the spread of the virus - the then Dean, Robert Willis, although not governed by the Archbishop (Deans of medieval cathedrals are crown appointments and sit outside of the church and are effectively on the same level as their bishop to serve as a check and balance to them), decided that out of loyalty to his fellow clergy he would also stop broadcasting from inside the cathedral. Instead he and his partner Fletcher held a daily communion inside the cathedral each day in a rotation of different chapels to ensure the tradition of a daily service which dates back to the time of Augustine was upheld and unbroken and also took to filming daily services in their garden through to May 2022. Usually joined each day by at least one of their cats (Monkey, Lilly, Tiger or Leo) and a whole host of their own menagerie from pigs and chickens to hedgehogs and newts and whilst sitting in the gardens through all seasons, this is a wonderful way to switch off and meditate whilst listening to a mix of poetry, recitals, current affairs, music – and of course the daily psalms and readings from the bible which are then explored and unpicked by Dean Robert. The original intention by Fletcher was to connect with "one or two members of our community who might be feeling lonely" and they could not have known that they would in fact connect with hundreds of thousands of people of all faiths and none from every part of the world who named themselves the Garden Congregation. Although initially the broadcasts were all on the cathedral website and other platforms, when they were unexpectedly caused to leave Canterbury Fletcher transferred their films to this new site so that they might still be enjoyed by anyone in the future.
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For Evening Prayer Dean Robert uses the Church of England book, “Common Worship Daily Prayer 2005” (Church House publishing). The bible is the English Standard Version (Collins), and occasionally - though always stated - Dean Robert uses the New Revised Standard Version or the King James.
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good evening and welcome to Capal e fin we've come out on a journey and we've motored through the town of hon Y which is a famous uh town full of books mostly secondhand used books but everyone comes here to the book town but since then we've come through the narrow track right up over hey Bluff for for for [Music] for e hey Bluff which is a famous um wild park which which is a steep climb the last twice we've been here it's in snowy conditions this afternoon it was much easier but the Sheep are there there are lcks flying off the the the top sounding and singing and here we've come to this famous little Church of capin it's an Anglican church and still has uh two Services a month first Sunday of the month 2:30 p.m. mass third Sunday of the month 2:30 p.m. even song but we're going to go in here this afternoon as a Prelude to our saying evening prayer together in a different place which we'll introduce you to when we get to that there let's uh see if it's all open there we are lovely old U trees here looking as though they've got faces and they're very ancient indeed by the look of them all around us the trees each oak tree looks like a a wonderful character you can see so many faces on the side of an oak tree of a u tree rather please mind your hand and here it says my peace I give to you and here we are in the ancient Church of Capal fin very small tiny little altar and a lovely old harmonium here with petals to create the air to make the tune I will lift up mine eyes unto the Hills from whence cometh my help the window says and you're looking out onto the mountains behind for this is in a very deep valley it's a lovely silence here but the place is well loved and there are fresh flowers on the Altar and a sense of it's still being used even though the community here is tiny one can imagine all kinds of services going on here through the centuries in all kinds of weathers too with its little balcony very often in the 18th century The Village uh string Trio or something of that sort would be here instead of a harmonium and they would sit in the gallery and accompany the hymns and metrical Psalms but this is all a preface this afternoon for our evening song in another place but we thought you'd like to see cap finin because it is a a a lovely historic place it means Chapel on the boundary and it was the boundary of the old diois and uh boundaries between the dasis of St David's and the dasis of LF wonderful font the blackb bird singing a good night song to us here from the ancient U trees singing his even song for us m [Music] all the wild flowers are much much later here because it's cold down here so the trees have not begun to sprout their leaves yet as they have on the other side of the hill where we've come from in shopshire we're now in Wales for [Music] the sound of the running water here lovely clear streams here very fresh water but even some daffodils down there the Welsh national flower but on our side of the the uh great hay Bluff the daffodils are well over it's warmer over there you go across the stream comes down from the mountain and lovely fresh water tumbling down through so our journey is going to go on and take us to another wonderful place but it's always good to come here so we've come to another holy place we have here some substantial ruins of lanton Prior which ended with the dissolution of all the monasteries but there's enough of it there to get the picture of how big a prior this was and we enjoy coming here because it's in a hollow in the Hills uh and the sun seems to seep through from different areas but down here lilacs are already In Bloom and it's a little warmer than it was higher up the valley there's a lovely Farm just below the wall there that we like looking down into but uh we'll go along this path here towards the gates of the prior itself where we were before in cap fin uh several people over the years attempted to start another religious community and uh at first it was uh an an actual order of of of monks but uh after that when the buildings were were left with no one there the uh artist and and uh sculptor Eric Gil whose name is quite contentious these days formed a little Community uh of of uh a few people uh and another very distinguished Welsh poet David Jones joined him there here's the farm down there and that's a real working farm with sheep looking at us at that point and some hens over there on that that side not many people evident this afternoon but the sun's still shining on us but um Gil's attempt to to form an artistic Community lasted only four years it proved too remote for them uh and so the buildings are still there and at the moment they're uh they're ready to be sold again and fles has always had ideas of buying the buildings and starting some kind of retreat center there uh deep in the hills and very near the little church we've just went to but we've come along the valley and it's it's a bit uh a bit more spacious here they're lovely scenes of the Sheep on the Hills there at the same time and this great notice here is showing us that this is part of the Breen Beacon National Park here we are everything now set out in English and in Welsh and lovely maps of where we are here is the route through to the church itself so here's the little Ang Church which is still active and there the gates of shanton PRI which we'll come back to in a moment let's just go down and see the church which is a pleasant one the dark stone of this part of Wales and a notice on the door showing that the door must be kept closed it's not so important at this time of year is to keep the swallows out because they tend to fly in with that low flight and then get trapped in here so we'll be good citizens and close the door behind us when Fletcher comes in here we are and the notice here says we hope to keep this church open for you to enjoy in peaceful contemplation a donation however small will help us enormously towards its upkeep thank you so much and I've imagine lots of pilgrims come in here as they walk these roads there's a lovely uh stained glass of the dove there and the church is lamp lit as you see and has lovely old pews and here another harmonium no electricity needed for those just the energy to pump with your feet and play the harmonium and here the lovely little chancel with its altar these places where worship has gone on for hundreds of years despite the changes of the Reformation we have another to show you yet so we're not going to stay long here and uh then we'll begin to say our evening prayers but we thank God for places like this and may it be blessed as it gives a blessing to us the lights fading fast as the evening comes on and another very ancient font here of Goodwill Stone [Music] so we're going to the prior grounds attached to it now is a hotel santony PRI Hotel it's a very good hotel and you see the shape of the the old Monastery which was dissolved by Henry VII at the disolution of the monasteries in warmer times of year there's a nice tea shop just here where we could come and uh even have lunch I think at that time it's a very hospitable place but at this time of year the season is not yet open and there aren't many tourists around at all as you see we have the place more or less to ourselves here's the great tower and you see how it shapes itself sometimes they have open Air Services here and then it can be used once again as a great prary church but in the open air you can see its size there would have been the East End and there the West End right up to where the altar stood but it's wellt and a place of great peace and quietness and we thank God for the blessing of these holy places even though their communities have now gone and passed away into history last Sunday as you know was Good Shepherd Sunday nothing could be more apt at this time of year in Wales and in shopshire both of which are full of sheep you can see the Lambs out there with their mothers on the field and the sun just gently sinking in the west behind me it's like standing in the middle of a Great Basin and the sky above in beautiful blue and the sun just coming over the ridge as it begins to set some of the Lambs look quite wobbly and are obviously very young indeed the sun on the dark stone lightens the place immensely we're so used to a light stone with the Stone from K that's brought to repair Canterbury Cathedral this is a very different kind of stone but very strong well we must go on to our other places before the sun sets so that we can say evening prayer at the right time let's follow back and we'll take you to another beautiful place for e [Applause] so we've come through the valleys to this quietest place of all and one of our favorite churches in all the world when we first left Canterbury we came to live here with uh some friends and uh two of their children I had baptized in the font here in this very ancient Welch Church of Patricio we've come up the narrow Lanes and we're here right at the top but below and you can perhaps hear the water in the background that the the birds are singing so loudly it may cover that sound below there is a holy well where a Hermit lived long ago and he uh founded this particular Church which seems hardly to have changed over the centuries the lovely Lich gate here and and it's a wonderful place to come and sit and contemplate The Valleys higher up there is another special place to us because it was in that uh time that we were here that our late queen died God Rest her and we knew uh when we were down below from all that was going on that that was imminent so we decided decided to come up here and sit in the quietness of the church as the long reign of Elizabeth II ended and she went on to glory and we set our prayers for her in this lovely church with its Two Bells and then sat quietly under a favorite tree of ours beyond the dry stone wall right on top of the hill and looked down through the Silence Of The Valleys here pondering how that Great era of our history the second Elizabethan age had ended that afternoon as we sat there so many memories and many connections and we're going now to go into the church and say uh even song and we'll say a short even song and then we shall uh go a little further and we can then say a little complin as the light dies let's go around the car and through the lovely Lich gate the Church of s Patricio earlier on this would have been full of of daffodils there are blue bells at the moment not in great quantity and nice seats where you can sit on the way up and contemplate The Valleys below squiddles jumping through the trees and here the church itself so very beautiful and so very ancient we'll go in it's always open and always has that same feel of a wonderful holy place now the great Wonder of this place is that it was almost Untouched by reformation and Civil War and its beautiful Ro rude screen there and the chancel screen the rude Gallery are all intact the alar rails all of those surviving from those times I think hardly anyone noticed it it was here except the little community that used it so here it was that we pondered and prayed as the queen died and then the next day we returned to celebrate a little communion and offer our Thanksgiving for her long Reign just here in the quietness of this church the shining on this beautiful patterned wood and the staircase leading up to the gallery above it will become very dark if we go in here and I want enough light to see so that we can say our prayers the two windows with Jesus confronting Simon Peter on the lake side and on the left hand side our Lord saying feed my lambs and on the right hand side feed my sheep once again taking us to this week of Good Shepherd Sunday and all the bleachings wonderful bleachings of lambs and sheep around us on the Welsh hillsides here so we're going to the Nave part of the church where the sun is still shining through so we'll begin our evening office in here and then afterwards we can go outside and complete our prayers there for this evening office open the scriptures at the right place and this happily is the first even song of the feast day of St Mark St Mark's Feast the 25th of April and St Mark very much the first of the evangelists reckoned to be the the earliest writing down of the Gospel but for the moment we'll begin our short evening office in this lovely Church oh God make speed to save us oh Lord make haste to help us in your Resurrection o Christ let Heaven and Earth Rejoice Allelujah blessed are you Sovereign Lord the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ to you be glory and praise is forever from the deep Waters of death you brought your people to New Birth by raising your son to life in Triumph through him Dark Death has been destroyed and Radiant Life is everywhere restored as you call us out of Darkness Into His Marvelous Light May Our Lives reflect his glory and our lips repeat the endless song Blessed Be god father son and Holy Spirit blessed be God forever that this evening may be holy good and peaceful let us pray with one heart and [Music] mind and as our evening prayer Rises before you oh God so may your mercy come down upon us to cleanse our hearts and set us free to sing your praise now and for forever amen our Psalm is naturally Psalm 121 I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from where is my help to come my help comes from the Lord the maker of heaven and Earth he will not suffer your foot to stumble He Who Watches Over you will not sleep behold he who keeps watch over Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep the Lord himself Watches Over You the Lord is your shade at your right hand so that the sun shall not strike you by day neither the Moon by Night the Lord shall keep you from all evil it is he who shall keep your soul the Lord shall keep watch over your going out and your coming in from this time forth forever more glory be to the father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World Without End Amen so we read the opening of The Gospel the Evangel of St Mark the first evangelist whose name we give thanks for on this eve of his Feast Day the beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ the son of God as it is written in the prophet Isaiah see I am sending my messenger ahead of you who will prepare your way the voice of one crying out in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord make his path straight John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the Forgiveness of sins and people from the whole Judean Countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him and were baptized by him in the River Jordan confessing their sins now John was clothed with camel's hair with a leather belter around his waist and he ate locusts and wild honey he proclaimed the one who is more powerful than I is coming after me I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals I have baptized you with water but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit in those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan and just as he was coming up out of the water he saw the heavens torn apart and the spirit descending like a dove on him and a voice Came From Heaven you are my son my beloved with you I am well pleased and the spirit immediately drove Jesus out into the wilderness he was in the wilderness 40 days tempted by Satan and he was with the wild beasts and the angels waited on him but after John was arrested Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the good news of God and saying the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has come near repent and believe in the good news thanks be to God so let's go outside into the light of the falling Sun now and as the sun sets we can say our prayers there is just here a little ledge where we can sit comfortably and pray how often did we bring flasks of tea up onto this Hillside and a small picnic simply to enjoy the view of the valley and one remembers so well how in the gospels and certainly at the end of chapter one of the Gospel of St Mark our Lord would always come to find quiet places to shall we say recharge himself for all the activity of the day one remembers when he healed the lady with hemorrhages who simply touched him and he said who touched me as she felt herself healed and Peter said well everyone's touching you how can you say who touched me Jesus said someone touched me for I felt power go out from me and with all the things that are going on in that that really busy Gospel of St Mark for Mark always is helter skelter through these things Jesus needed those times up on the mountain side in the quietness where he found that he could refill those Wells of the spirit which were taken slowly from him in resources of people in so much need so let's give thanks for St Mark give thanks for our world but particularly on this day for us in this place we give thanks for our late Queen and for her years of service and Shining faith in the savior in whom she believed so much and whom she would share with us every Christmas day all the years of our life more or less and so we just pause for a moment and think of troubled areas in the world think of the trouble in the holy land where our lesson of St Mark is set think of the way in which the River Jordan runs through that land where Jesus was baptized you think also of the people in the in Gaza and the Palestinian people and the people of Israel think of all those with any kind of influence worldwide to bear on that situation of War that peace may be restored remember too those in China suffering from such severe flooding others throughout the world in Ukraine and in Russia were peace is also so necessary after this long war and those who take counsel for the Nations throughout the world we pray for Charles our King in all his heavy responsibilities members of the royal family and all who bear any office of State in whichever Nation you belong to as you say your prayers with us the prayer for St Mark's day almighty God who enlightened your holy church through the inspired witness of your evangelist St Mark grant that we being firmly grounded in the truth of the Gospel may be faithful to its teaching both in word and deed through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen and the collect for Easter time God of Life who for our Redemption gave your only begotten son to the death of the Cross and by his glorious Resurrection have delivered us from the power of our enemy grant us so to Die daily to sin that we may ever more live with him in the joy of his risen life through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen rejoicing in God's New Creation as as our savior taught us so we pray Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever amen May the Risen Christ grant us the joys of eternal life and may the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit be upon you upon those whom you love and all whom you care for this night and always amen and make our way back down this ancient and lovely path to the Lich gate for for for since we were last here these trees have been cut down and one sees why because in wintertime this becomes immensely wet and slippy and it's a very steep road to climb and so these trees um having been uh brought down to size means that the sun can reach into the lanee itself and melt as far as possible what ice there is and what snow there is we've done it in those occasions but you do need a vehicle that can manage it and at the same time if people are walking it it becomes a very dangerous road indeed because it is massively steep now we're coming up now to a very important building which when we were here and uh we would sit just beyond it in the field I'll show you in a moment um when we were here fetcher had his eyes on this to convert it into a lovely house looking right over the valley down below and it does just that it's uh just built of stone with its roof in I think corrugated iron but it could be a very handsome house indeed and you see as you look through how it looks right down the valley and it's walls are fairly old but it's just been kept together in a modern way uh for shelter here but here is the place where we would come and bring our picnic and it's a A really lovely place just walk down the track to the gate itself and look over brings back all kinds of memories but here's the tree with no leaves on it at the moment but on that date September the 8th it was plentifully leaved and we spread a rug and sat here in total contemplation and uh I think that uh it will always be very special in our hearts as we as we stand here or even go there perhaps once again to have a picnic and remember that occasion the tracks go right down on the right hand side the hill slopes away to uh the Church of Patricio which you can see there and in front of us it goes down into the valley and straight ahead you're looking through quiet valleys all the way down and the hills with different shapes some are called things like Sugarloaf or uh there's one which is which is like a a Table Mountain birds are singing their last song of the evening and all the wild flowers the celines here in the meadow have close their petals as the day comes to an end dry stone walls here making boundaries so that the Sheep don't stray too far but not a soul around not a soul in sight when we were living here every morning Fletcher would walk miles around these lanes and right up to the top there um as the sun rose in the morning world Beyond me to do that then but it was a a lovely place to walk even a little way for for for for [Music] so here again we bless ourselves and bless each other and thank God for such places of Holiness where we can recover tranquility and contemplate all the gifts which God G us we're going to make our way in a moment to another holy place and then we can say our good nights to each other with the shortest of complains here we are at lant Fred church just beside the river as here and this church is the place where the mystical poet of the 17th century Henry Vaughn is buried we'll say a little bit more about him when we get inside and the gate is proving difficult there we are I have it so here's the little church [Applause] and vorn is buried just the other side of it during the first world war the poet uh SEC Creed suon whom I may have mentioned uh several times is a a favorite poet of mine um uh used to comfort himself by reading the mystical poets and Henry Vaughn was one of his favorites in all the horror of the first world war of the trenches and he as a young officer uh seeing so many of his men and his own officer friends killed used to in the evening or if he had a day out of the The Trenches when they went off for a week or two away from the trenches um he would take Henry Vaughn's poetry and sit on a French Hillside and and read the mystical poems that vaugh wrote and he decided that when the war was over he would make a pilgrimage to the place where Vaughn was buried and so he got a car and motored from his home uh which which is down near us in Kent um and uh he came up to this part of the country he heard music of the three choirs festival and all of that but he found himself eventually at this place and here we are under this old UT tree this fresh flowers on it is the grave of Henry vaugh [Applause] died here in 1693 age 73 and some lovely lovely flowers from the Vaughn Association and he lies he wished to lie just here now VOR was not a priest but he was a member of a family that were very faithful anglicans members of the Church of England they'd have said and he lived at a time when the um even the the practice of reading the book of comra with prow was a criminal activity and so all his friends and the people he served for he was a a medical man um he decided he would write poetry which could help them meditate and think in their Anglican way even though no one was allowed to worship with the book of Comm pray and the churches were were largely changed Canter cathedral in that time was was uh attacked by the iconic class who broke so many of the the precious glass windows uh and uh here is vau lying quietly under this u tree now I think that this board behind me tells the story of cun's yes it does su's Journey here and when he came he wrote a poem which is set out here so this isn't one of Henry Vaughn's poems this is SE freed sassoon's poem in honor of Henry Vaughn and he calls it at the grave of Henry Vaughn above of the voiceful windings of a river an old green slab of Simply Graven Stone shuns notice overshadowed by a u here vorn lies dead whose name flows on forever through pastures of the spirit washed with due and Starlet with eternities unknown here sleeps the ilist the loved physician the face that left no portraiture behind the skull that housed white angels and had visions of Daybreak through the gateways of the Mind here faith and mercy wisdom and humility whose influence shall Prevail forever more shine and this lowly grave tells Heaven's tranquility and here stand I a suppliant at the door and it signed SE Theon it was suon that made me even notice vorn but suon also uh who caused me to buy his poetry and in the same way take refreshment from the poems as he wrote them we thought we would say a short complin here as the sun sets through the trees over the hills and the river runs between us and the hill that's hiding the Sun from us gradually the river ask so this is the order for night prayer and if you're using daily prayer we're on page 337 the Lord Almighty grant us a quiet night and a perfect End Amen our help is in the name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth at this point we reflect for a moment without words on what this day has brought us and give thanks for [Applause] it so we ask forgiveness for anything that we have done of which we are ashamed or sorry most merciful god we confess to you before the whole company of heaven and one another that we have sinned in thought word and deed and in what we have failed to do forgive us our sins heal Us by your spirit and raise us to New Life In Christ amen oh God make speed to save us oh Lord make haste to help us glory to the father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever amen Allelujah the compl hymn before the ending of the day creator of the world we pray that you with steadfast love would keep your watch around us while we sleep from Evil dreams defend our sight from fears and Terrors of the night tread underfoot our deadly foe that we no sinful thought may know oh father that we ask be done through Jesus Christ your only Son and Holy Spirit by whose breath our souls are raised to life from [Applause] Death Psalm 91 whoever dwells in the shelter of the most high and abides under the shadow of the almighty shall say to the Lord my refuge and my stronghold my God in whom I put my trust for he shall deliver You From The Snare of the Fowler and from the deadly pestilence he shall cover you with his wings and you shall be safe under his feathers his faithfulness shall be your shield and buckler you shall not be afraid of any Terror by night nor of the arrow that flies by day of the pestilence that stalks in darkness nor of the sickness that destroys at Noonday though a thousand fall at your side and 10,000 at your right hand yet it shall not come near you your eyes have only to behold to see the reward of the wicked because you have made the Lord your refuge and the most high your stronghold there shall no evil happen to you neither shall any plague come near your tent for he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways they shall bear you in their hands lest you dash your foot against a stone you shall tread upon the lion and Adder the Young Lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot because they have set their love upon me therefore will I deliver them I will lift them up because they know my name they will call upon me and I will answer them I am with them in trouble I will deliver them and bring them to honor with long life will I satisfy them and show them my salvation glory to the father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever amen be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil is prowling round like a roaring lion seeking for someone to devour resist him strong in the Faith the Servants of the Lamb shall see the face of God whose name will be on their foreheads there will be no more night they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the Sun for God will be their light and they will reign forever and ever into your hands oh Lord I commend my spirit into your hands oh Lord I commend my spirit for you have redeemed me Lord God of truth I commend my spirit glory to the father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit into your hands oh Lord I commend my spirit keep me as the apple of your eye hide me under the shadow of your wings save us oh Lord while waking and guard us while sleeping that awake we may watch with Christ and asleep May rest in peace now Lord you let your servant go in peace your word has been fulfilled my own eyes have seen the Salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people a light to reveal R you to the Nations and the glory of your People Israel glory be to the father and to the son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and shall be forever amen save us oh Lord while waking and guard us while sleeping that awake we may watch with Christ and asleep we may rest in peace visit O Lord our homes we pray and drive far from them the snares of the enemy may your Holy Angels dwell with us and guard Us in peace and may your blessing be always upon us through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen so we say our father who are in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever amen in peace we will lie down and sleep for you alone Lord make us dwell in safety abide with us Lord Jesus for the night is at hand and the day is now passed as the night watch looks for the morning so do we look for you o Christ come with the dawning of the day and make yourself known to us in the breaking of bread the Lord bless us and watch over us the Lord make his face shine upon us and be gracious to us the Lord look kindly on us and give us peace [Music] [Applause] amen so the Sun is setting now behind the trees and it's time for to leave this place but we'll pause for a moment in silence before the grave that suon in all that horror of the first world war decided would be the place he would come to to find healing and rest and even forgiveness [Music] [Music] for for a poem by Henry Vaughn it's called the world I saw eternity the other night like a great Ring of pure and endless light all calm as it was bright and round beneath it time in hours days years driven by the Spheres like a vast Shadow moved in which the world and all her train were H the doting lover in his quaintest strain did there complain near him his loot his fancy and his his fights W sour Delights with gloves and Knots the silly snares of pleasure yet his dear treasure all scattered lay while he his eyes did pour upon the flower the darksome Statesman hung with weights and woe like a thick midnight fog moved there so slow he did not stay nor go condemning thought like sad eclipse scowl upon his soul and clouds of crying Witnesses without pursued him with one shout yet digged the mole and lest his ways be found worked underground where he did clutch his prey but one did see that policy churches and altars fed him perjuries were gnats and flies it rained about him Blood and Tears but he drank them as free yet some who all this while did weep and sing and sing and weep soared up into the ring but most would use no Wing oh fool said I thus to prefer Dark Night Before True Light to live in grots and caves and hate the day because it shows the way the way which from the dead and dark Abode leads up to God a way where you might tread the Sun and be more bright than he but as I did their Madness so discuss one whispered thus this ring the bridegroom did for none provide but for his bride for his bride this is a place above Shan ganada where we come high up in order to see the sunset well we saw the sun set at uh Henry Vaughn's grave but we've come up here to see the color of the sunset after the sun itself has disappeared so that we can say farewell to this lovely day and all around us are enormous Hills other people are here just watching the end of this lovely day it's all very very quiet and Beyond you see the reservoir at uh talgar and the little Hills in between and later after we've had supper we'll motor back that way back into shopshire and no doubt be greeted with great Joy by Little Lily who's had just an afternoon and evening alone for the sheep have all gone to bed now there's no sound of birds or Lambs or anything just the odd car going past and another one which has come to see the colors of the sunset I remember the first time I ever sat on wible Beach and as the sun went down into the sea as it does there um then uh I was I Rose to go and the lady beside me said oh the best part is often still to come and it's true that when the Sun goes down it leaves be beautiful colors in the sky which continue for some time [Music] and so we're going to say good night and leave you with this sign of sunset across the mountains of Wales and looking onto the hills of shopshire and werer for