Westminster Abbey

Monsignor Philip Whitmore shares with us a bird's eye view of Westminster Abbey, its ecumencial celebrations, its shared music and its significance for Catholics :

"...if you go back to the 11th century, that was before the divisions of the Reformation..the Abbey Church was dedicated to St Peter and it's a sign if you like of the particular connection , certainly at that time between the Church in London and the Church of Rome..."

"..the beautiful liturgy that is so characterises of English cathedrals goes back to the days when so many of them were monastic foundations..and certainly Westminster Abbey was a Benedictine monastic foundation .."

"..he prayed there and he spoke of the chapel where Queen Mary Tudor and Queen Elizabeth I are buried side by side .. .he hoped and prayed that that might be a sign of future reconciliation between the Churches ..."