Year of Faith begins

Today is the official start to the year of faith.  Like so many of the images and objects at Church, the logo for the year of faith has great symbolism. The boat is the sign of the Church.  The cross is the sign of love, it’s the sign of our faith. The sun which is behind the sails represents the Eucharist which is the centre of our lives of faith. 

The logo is composed of a square, bordered field on which a boat, symbolizing the Church, is represented as sailing on a graphically minimal representation of waves. The main mast of the boat is a cross from which sails are displayed in the form of dynamic signs which compose the trigram of Christ (IHS). The background to the sails is a sun which, associated with the trigram, refers also to the Eucharist. (Description from the official Year of Faith website)

How long is the Year of Faith?
This is not a trick question, and surprisingly the answer is not what you might expect.  In fact it is more than a year, 409 days, or 58 weeks and 3 days, or 9816 hours, 588,960 minutes, 35,337,600 seconds to be precise.  In recent weeks we've had a clock counting down to the start of the Year of Faith, see right for our new clock to count down the year of faith.

Day of prayer
Throughout the day At the Cathedral there is a day of prayer to which everyone is welcome to attend. 

For a full programme and details of the Angelus which we will say at 9.00am, noon, and 6.00pm click here.  

The day will end with compline (night prayer).  If you aren't able to come, you may want to join in using the two videos below to say night prayer.