As promised, more photos from St Birinus' Catholic church in Dorchester-on-Thames have been posted. The church has been beautified even more by the addition of ecclesiastical heraldry on the Rood Screen. This is still incomplete as the screen has yet to be fully gilded and polychromed and the Rood is currently being painted, hence it is not in situ. A rail will also be installed for the houseling cloth.
One reason for my visit, of course, was to see the Lenten array:
And there is a simpler set in Father's domestic chapel:
Do look at the whole set here for more of this lovely liturgical gem and its ecclesiastical art in Oxfordshire.
Long may the sanctuary lamp burn in this church and may it be the locus of a new liturgical movement in Mary's Dowry!
