Category: Cathedral Life

Vegan Meringues  By André de Mendonça A low-cost recipe using ingredients that are often thrown away. Ingredients and utensils100g of juice from a 400gm tin…

Why is it Good Friday?

Photo by John Saunders By Ellie Jones, Exeter Cathedral Archivist  This beautiful 14th century gold ring, engraved with a charming depiction of the Virgin and…

By The Ven David Gunn-Johnson Well here we are, just over halfway through Lent and for some, especially those who have set themselves a rigorous…

For many years ‘The Players’ staged theatre of different kinds at Exeter Cathedral. This included The Vigil by Fodor, Ring Round the Moon by Anhouil, adapted by Christopher Fry;…

By Canon Cate Edmonds I must confess that I have found this Lent very hard to get into. Why I keep asking myself? Could I…

Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt, 1663-1665 By The Rev’d Canon Chris Palmer My favourite story in the Bible is the story of the…

Strictly speaking, not for Lent, but if you still have a taste for pancakes here’s a recipe for you.  By André de Mendonça As I…

Writer Alan Day reflects on his recent visit to Exeter Cathedral.  Visionary, Richard Hooker, dressed in Elizabethan clerical robes, sits on his granite plinth. Propped…

The Sower by Vincent Van Gogh, 1888. By Rev’d Canon Ian Morter On a number of occasions I have had the pleasure of visiting the Van…