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Summer Is Icuming In

Recently enough Reading was all biscuits and Biscuit Boys, but the biscuits went and the Boys reinvented themselves as ‘The Royals’ of Madjeski Stadium Fame. Its recent Media alumni include Felix Bowness, (Reading’s own Comedian) Chris Tarrant, Marianne Faithful, Jaqueline Bisset and Kate Winslet.

However it has much History too, for exactly eight hundred and eighty eight years ago Reading Abbey was founded and too allegedly, what was to become the Reading Grammar School for Boys. Seemingly though someone might have taken their ‘Writ’ and doubled it, for prior to 1921 the School Song had it that

‘Four hundred years and more have passed since Reading School was founded.’

It has only since become eight hundred years, but such is inflation. The town has a fine University and much Civic Pride.

There have too been Doctors whose repute extends beyond the scope of their Profession. Amongst these Dr. George Murphy-O’Connor, famed as the father of Cardinal Cormac Murphy- O’Connor, Sir Roger Bannister the first man to run a mile in four minutes, and many years prior to him Dr Anthony Addington, Physician to Pitt the younger and the Father, of Henry , who after serving as Speaker of the House of Commons became our ‘ First Middle Class Prime Minister. (1801-1804). He assumed office reluctantly at the insistence of Pitt and King George 111, did so with the intent of healing the rift between the King and Pitt who had resigned over the Catholic Emancipation in Northern Ireland Issue.

Goodness knows how it was that the Reading Catholic Church squashed alongside the Reading Goal of Oscar Wilde Fame managed it, but recently it gave us not only the late Bishop Christopher Butler OSB. formerly the Headmaster and Abbot of Downside, but too the afore mentioned Cardinal.

Last Saturday The Times interviewed him. I suppose many of you will have read the Article, should you not have done so may I commend it to you. It is available on line: (CUT AND PASTE)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment /faith/article5728972.ece

IT IS REFRESHING TO READ SUCH FRANK COMMENT ON OUR CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCE FROM THE LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. POSSIBLY YOU MAY NOT AGREE WITH WHAT HE HAD TO SAY, HOWEVER THE ARTICLE IS WELL WORTH YOUR CONSIDERATION.

(I don’t suppose the Cardinal read it all in Papalscope, but he might well have done so!)

*Summer Is Icuming In.
discovered in the Papers of Reading Abbey
Cut and Paste for the music.

http://www.pteratunes.org.uk/Music/Music /Lyrics/summerisicumenin.html

15 February 2009 12:30

contact : John B. Pope
Email : pionono@tiscali.co.uk