Blog
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Chorister vacancy - help spread the word!
Please note that this vacancy has now been filled. We would still love to hear from you if you are interested in your son becoming a chorister. Usually, boy choristers join the choir as they enter …
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Congratulations to Robin & Mard Sellwood
Now in its eighth year, the Cross of St Piran is an award designed to recognise the outstanding service given by lay people across Cornwall. This year we were thrilled that on Sunday 3 March at a …
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Anniversary of Grenfell
With the second anniversary of the terrible tragedy at Grenfell Tower we are once more reminded of the awfulness of that dreadful night and the scars that are left in its wake. At Evensong on 23rd …
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Four yesses for our brilliant choristers on Britain’s Got Talent
As millions of viewers witnessed, on Saturday 18th May 2019, our very own Truro Cathedral Choristers received a standing ovation and an emphatic four yesses from the judges of Britain’s Got Talent. …
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The art of the profound
Many musicians hail James MacMillan as being among the world’s greatest living composers – from my own experience I would certainly agree. MacMillan wrote an extraordinary anthem ‘Christus vincit’ …
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Liskeard School and Community College win Arts Project
We were pleased to welcome the pupils of Liskeard School and Community College on 24 April to collect their prize for winning the Hate Crime Awareness arts project exhibited as part of Holocaust …
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Sri Lanka
As we gathered for the dawn service at the cathedral on Easter morning, news was coming in of the dreadful and heinous attacks in Sri Lanka, targeting tourists and worshippers who, themselves, were …
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The Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral
Six years ago, I was immensely privileged to be part of St Mary’s Singers when we sang the foreign language Mass in Notre Dame, Paris, on a chilly April morning. It was a moving experience, the …
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A reflection on Easter
Christmas and Easter, the two major Christian festivals. If asked to say which was the most important of the two, most people would say Easter. I wouldn’t disagree with this. But I don’t think I am …