On Saturday 16 June 2012, Lichfield Garrick and Lichfield Cathedral will join together for the first time to present a magnificent celebration of the Accession of Queen Elizabeth II and the great tradition of the patriotic British Proms concert.

The concert will be sponsored by the specialist insurance and financial services company, Ecclesiastical insurance. For more details click here to visit the Ecclesiastical website.

The programme of music in this most lavish of concerts will feature Coronation Anthems; Zadok the Priest and I Was Glad, together with film footage and excerpts from the Westminster Abbey Coronation. Click on Read more to find out further details.

Lichfield Cathedral is extending a warm welcome to all during the season of Lent, offering reflective worship and a thought-provoking programme of Lent lectures and tours. During this period of penitence, the community will explore the meaning of Lent and prepare for Holy Week, the most important days of the Christian year, the heart of the Christian faith.

The Very Revd Adrian Dorber, Dean of Lichfield commented:
“Lent is a time to grow in faith: to accept some of the traditional disciplines of prayer, fasting and alms-giving by putting away our ego-needs and focusing instead on the life Jesus lived and the Kingdom he promised. During Holy Week, the final week of Lent, we follow Jesus’s journey to the cross and the glory of resurrection. This holy season is life-changing. I invite you to share it and make it your own pilgrimage”.

Worship

Daily throughout Lent, the offices of Morning and Evening Prayer will be said or sung at 7.30am and 5.30pm respectively (3.30pm on Sundays), and the Eucharist celebrated at 8am and 9.30am each weekday (12noon on Saturdays). Why not join us as part of your Lenten observance?

Listen again to Any Questions? on BBC Radio Four. Recorded live at Lichfield Cathedral on Friday 27 January.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b1nky

The show was hosted by Jonathan Dilmbleby and featured panellists David Blunkett MP, Danny Finkelstein (Executive Editor of The Times), Anna Soubry MP (PPS to the Minister of State for Health) and Sunder Kotwala (Director of British Future).