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Truro Cathedral receives a Lifeline Grant from the Government's Culture Recovery Fund
Truro Cathedral has awarded £20,000 from the government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help fund repairs during the coronavirus pandemic.
Lifeline grants from the Culture Recovery Fund are …
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Survey: help shape the life and mission of the church post-pandemic.
A new survey measuring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the church-going community has been compiled by a joint team comprising of The Church of England, Association of English Cathedrals, …
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Temporary Closure of Truro Cathedral
Last weekend, the cathedral took the difficult decision of closing the building for public worship in the light of rising Covid cases in Cornwall. Many other cathedrals throughout the country have …
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A statement from Dean Roger
Dear friends
Since the start of the latest lockdown last Tuesday, we have been grappling with the invidious choice of being appropriately available for people as well as exercising our …
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January 2021
“So we stumble on, the new year becoming a gradual repeat of the one that has just come.”
Those of you with exceptional memories will remember that these are some of the words I wrote in my New Year …
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Recording Nine Lessons and Carols
Director of Music Chris Gray reflects on recording the Nine Lessons and Carols service this year:
When the first Bishop of Truro, Edward White Benson, devised his ‘Festival of Nine Lessons …
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A Christmas Like No Other
‘A Christmas like no other’ – a line from a saccharine Christmas-y film stated by an excited child after receiving some good news. In these ‘unprecedented’ times of the Coronavirus pandemic many …
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Live-streaming
In front of the camera…
When the second lockdown was announced, the Cathedral Executive took the decision to introduce live streaming of Sunday worship with immediate effect. Although we have been …
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Lockdown 2.0
Well, here we are, on the point of a second lockdown. This time, it feels different to our common and national experience in March. Then there was an unknown aspect of what the pandemic would bring. …