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Remember our Child

The first Remember Our Child service at Truro Cathedral took place in 1995. It returns this year after a two-year gap because of Covid. So this is the 25th such service, even though it is now 27 …
Choir records song for Ukrainian children

Truro Cathedral Choir has recorded a fundraising anthem for Ukrainian children, released on Mothering Sunday.

Ave Maria, by Ukrainian contemporary composer Valentin Silvestrov, was performed at the …
A proper farewell to Canon Lynda Barley

Yesterday, 20 March, we were highly delighted to welcome back to the cathedral Canon Lynda Barley and her husband Chris, two years after Lynda retired as Canon Pastor. Not surprisingly, Covid …
What’s in a name?

On Saturday 2 April, Three Spires Singers and Orchestra will join forces with Truro Cathedral Choir and two of the UK’s leading classical singers, Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Julien Van Mellaerts, to …
Blackbird

I have always had an ambivalent relationship with poetry. There are some poems I go back to again and again, like George Herbert’s Love III and R. S. Thomas’s Bright Field. But I don’t deny that I …
May my Words

In 1985 I was appointed Canon Theologian by Bishop Peter Mumford though I suspect that his then Chaplain, my former Cambridge pupil, Canon Jim Whitlock may have had a hand in it. I was to serve three …
A Helping Hand

When we think about grants, we often think about big building projects, such as repairing the roof or the South West Tower. But getting a helping hand with some of our day-to-day expenditure or with …
The Organ Recital Series for 2022 is about to begin!

Truro Cathedral is host to one of the most revered and highly regarded organs in the world. Installed in 1887, the Father Willis organ has remained almost entirely tonally unchanged. The importance …
Forging Ahead

As we continue to recover from the Covid pandemic we have been very active in pursuing support that will aid the long-term sustainability of the cathedral. These efforts were enhanced last year …