Hello and Happy 4th of July!! I think it is strange to be celebrating Independence Day in the country from which we gained our independence. Because I went to the Catholic Chaplaincy yesterday I decided to go to the big parish church today. Our Lady and the English Martyrs is a beautiful Gothic Revival church. It was quite lucky that adoration was going on as I entered the church and I got to spend a half hour with Jesus there, thanking Him for my wonderful country.
After class I decided to go over to the library and do more research for my honours project. I went to the King's College Library and it is gorgeous there but the floors are so creaky. I felt like a PhD student was going to snap every time I took a step. There was also someone sitting right in front of the Theology books I wanted to look at so I will have to go back later. As if I need much convincing to go to the library.
I'm enjoying class and I'm glad we're focusing in on certain cathedrals and churches though a lot of the material is still familiar thanks to my experience at the Mount. I had my first class at the engineering department today and it is different from my previous classes, the building is much newer and was built for scientific purposes. The older colleges were built more with a traditional liberal arts curriculum in mind. Something I am very familiar with.
I will be celebrating my love for my country tonight with several other Americans. I just hope we don't see any tea floating down the Cam tomorrow.
These are two different views of the back of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, the Catholic parish in Cambridge. This is one of the newer churches in Cambridge, it's even younger than the Mount!
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