UK Diary, Day 5

In which we leave Edinburgh, train to London, and worship at All Saints', Margaret Street

My friends, greetings in the Lord! I write from a youth hostel near St Paul’s Cathedral in London. As has been the custom during these diary entries, let us hear from Evelyn Underhill, a saintly Anglican mystic and confessor, as she wrote in her book Worship:

“Worship is a subject which must be of vital interest to all students of religion; and still more, to all those who are trying to live religion. Theology deals with the material of faith; the Fact of God and His revelation to men. But worship is faith in action; man’s total response to that God Who is the subject of theology. Together they form those two complement aspects of man’s religious life, which medieval symbolism expressed when it placed near to God the cherubim, who are the spirits of divine knowledge; and nearer still the seraphim, who are the spirits of adoring love.”

In short: We traveled here yesterday via 4.5 hr train ride from Edinburgh. It was sad to leave Scotland, but we hope to be back in the future. After we arrived in the city, we took the Tube (London’s underground subway) to Blackfriars station, and walked to our hostel. Then we headed to All Saints’, Margaret Street (via the Tube to Oxford Circus station). There we worshiped during their services of 5:15 pm Mass, 6 pm Choral Evensong followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The photograph above was taken by Hannah after the services.

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