Real Continuity

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 14, 12 April 1923, Page 13

Real Continuity

Addressing newly-clothed novices at Syon Abbey, Chudleigh- (England), the other day, his Lordship the Bishop of Plymouth said they were aspiring to belong to the only ancient House - of England. It was over 500 years ago since Henry Agincourt founded that house of Syon, and all those years the continuity of Syon had- gone on. He thought the tradition of Syon was a tradition of fidelity. Very few people understood and realised that the Masses that Henry of Agincourt wanted said for the repose of his soul had been said from the time of his expressed wish down to the present day. His obits were still observed at Syon Abbey. Syon was not a thing of ruins like the old abbeys of the land. , It was a very humble abode they had at the present time at Chudleigh compared with their former house of glorious days on the banks of. the Thames, at Isleworth, but it was the glory of this community that they had kept together during all those years. U\~ ■ --" : ~

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