Brighton's cathedral welcomes hundreds to reopening (From The Argus)
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Brighton's cathedral welcomes hundreds to reopening
5:00pm Sunday 1st November 2009 in News By Ruth Lumley
Despite the torrential rain, hundreds of people turned out for the long-awaited reopening of a historic church.
Between 300 and 400 people of all ages arrived at St Peter's Church, in York Place, Brighton, for the 10am service today.
Three services are taking place, one at 8.30am, one at 10am and one at 6pm, attracting churchgoers from other parts of Sussex and London.
St Peter's, an iconic building known as Brighton's cathedral, faced closure after congregation numbers fell and structural problems put it in financially difficulties.
But Anglican group Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB), which first developed the Alpha Course, agreed to take over the running of the church.
The Grade II listed church is still under Church of England control but has been leased by the Chichester Diocesan Fund and Board of Finance to HTB, who are maintaining the building and running the services.
The parish and benefice of Brighton and St Peter with the Chapel Royal has been dissolved and two new benefices created – Brighton The Chapel Royal and Brighton St Peter.
Comments(15)
cheezburger
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5:34pm Sun 1 Nov 09
bigduff
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6:07pm Sun 1 Nov 09
sussexone
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6:17pm Sun 1 Nov 09
It is a historic building, perhaps it would be better used as a performing arts space/community facility, or how about turn it into shops/flats or a night club! Much more useful to the majority of people, and would get used and
properly maintained!
Cue the usual response from the God squad!
stan bailey
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10:24pm Sun 1 Nov 09
lorrie2
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6:09am Mon 2 Nov 09
tinkywinky
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9:32am Mon 2 Nov 09
Christophe Hawtree
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10:50am Mon 2 Nov 09
Can we please have an end of this adjective.
interestedpartyperson
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12:00pm Mon 2 Nov 09
logicub
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1:13pm Mon 2 Nov 09
on' - "I can see why 6500 local people signed a petition to keep the building open."
Two quotes from the story - "Between 300 and 400 people of all ages arrived at St Peter's Church" and
"attracting churchgoers from other parts of Sussex and London."
My calculator isn't to hand I'm afraid, would someone else do the maths here?
That's a lot of people that didn't want to see the church gone, but still don't care to cross the door step. This sums up the attitude of a lot of people; when faced with the question "Do you believe in a god?", the automatic response is along the lines of "Sure, why not" because most people have never given it a second thought. Religion is so ingrained into society that the reflex answer is "yes".
chris elmes
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3:39pm Mon 2 Nov 09
delightedoftunbridgewells
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6:08pm Mon 2 Nov 09
The 2nd paragraph clearly says:
Between 300 and 400 people of all ages arrived at St Peter's Church, in York Place, Brighton, for the 10am service today.
(NB Church not Cathederal).
I agree that the word cathedral is used in the title however since it is lower case it is different - a bit like God and god! That is someone could be described as a football god but the writer would not be claiming that they were God or God-like.
Paragraph four also says the building is "known as Brighton's cathedral" not the build "is Brighton's cathederal". Sounds more like an affectionate term used by locals rather than anything else!
delightedoftunbridgewells
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6:12pm Mon 2 Nov 09
Mr Lahey
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12:22pm Wed 4 Nov 09
logicub wrote:that's a 5.4% attendance / petition ratio right there (350 / 6500)
A quote from 'InterestedPartyPers on' - "I can see why 6500 local people signed a petition to keep the building open." Two quotes from the story - "Between 300 and 400 people of all ages arrived at St Peter's Church" and "attracting churchgoers from other parts of Sussex and London." My calculator isn't to hand I'm afraid, would someone else do the maths here? That's a lot of people that didn't want to see the church gone, but still don't care to cross the door step. This sums up the attitude of a lot of people; when faced with the question "Do you believe in a god?", the automatic response is along the lines of "Sure, why not" because most people have never given it a second thought. Religion is so ingrained into society that the reflex answer is "yes".
logicub
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5:21pm Wed 4 Nov 09
Mr Lahey wrote:and a number of them weren't even from Brighton! I would hazard a guess that those people won't be making Brighton their regular Sunday haunt...
logicub wrote:that's a 5.4% attendance / petition ratio right there (350 / 6500)
A quote from 'InterestedPartyPers on' - "I can see why 6500 local people signed a petition to keep the building open." Two quotes from the story - "Between 300 and 400 people of all ages arrived at St Peter's Church" and "attracting churchgoers from other parts of Sussex and London." My calculator isn't to hand I'm afraid, would someone else do the maths here? That's a lot of people that didn't want to see the church gone, but still don't care to cross the door step. This sums up the attitude of a lot of people; when faced with the question "Do you believe in a god?", the automatic response is along the lines of "Sure, why not" because most people have never given it a second thought. Religion is so ingrained into society that the reflex answer is "yes".
tinkywinky says...
5:22pm Sun 1 Nov 09