The nave is clear of chairs for just a week and cold spring sunlight is filtering through the stained glass windows. Come and find this glorious image of the three Maries and the angel The Library is open and on display is the 12th century Lincoln Chapter Bible, which has international significance as the earliest English illustrated bible of the Romanesque period. Also on display is one of only 50 surviving medieval manuscripts of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.  This belonged to ...Read more →

Sermon preached in Lincoln Cathedral by the Dean, the Very Revd Philip Buckler at the Sung Eucharist on Easter Day, 31st March, 2013   Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark… John’s Gospel account of that first Easter Day creates the atmosphere.  It was still dark… Those who have been following the passion of Our Lord these last few days will recall Judas getting up from the table at the Last Supper, and going ...Read more →

Philip Buckler, Dean   Gavin Kirk, Precentor    Mark Hocknull, Chancellor    John Patrick, Subdean Elsewhere in this Letter you will find news of marathons:  a 10k run and a coast-to-cost walk, both undertaken for charity.  Today the Church begins its own marathon  -  the Great and Holy Week.  In this we are called to walk with Jesus on his marathon journey, beginning today with his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on a donkey.  We accompany him through three days of teaching in the ...Read more →

After another cold and wet weekend in France, I set off from Roye early in the morning with the snow coming down to beat the traffic around Paris. It’s a full driving day today. My first stop was at Auxerre for fuel and I did myself some bacon and eggs with a fresh baguette and a coffee in the truck for breakfast. I carried on south and the weather started to get a bit better; at least it had stopped ...Read more →

After a quiet weekend I carried on down to Dover on Sunday to get across to France on Sunday night so I could be at my first delivery in Gennevilliers in Paris Monday morning. I was there for when they opened at 08.30. I got that off ok, but then on Monday morning it took nearly 2 hours to drive 40 kilometres to my next drop the other side of Paris on the outer ring road. After unloading there it ...Read more →

There is a fascinating interview with our senior glazier on last evening’s edition of Flog It. Available on iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rcctb/Flog_It!_Series_11_Lincolnshire_48/

Philip Buckler, Dean   Gavin Kirk, Precentor    Mark Hocknull, Chancellor    John Patrick, Subdean  Today we arrive at the mid-point of Lent, almost universally known as Mothering Sunday.  Its more ancient title is Laetare Sunday, the name being taken from the initial word of the original introit for this day:  Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and gather round, all you who love her:  rejoice in gladness, you who were sorrowful, exult and be replenished with the consolation flowing from her maternal breast.  Laetare is ...Read more →

Denby Transport driver, Andy Cawthorne, shares his diary. W\C Sunday 13th Jan On Monday morning I was back up to York for 08.00hrs. Then it was across to Wigan to have the new curtains with st Hugh on them fitted at the makers yard (St Hugh is now mobile). I’m heading back to Lincoln tonight. Tuesday morning was spent in the yard finishing off the art work on the back doors of the trailer. Then it was up to Grimsby ...Read more →