The rain did not keep people away from the Annual Healing and
Renewal Day at Walsingham on Monday. Several hundred gathered under
cover for the healing mass. The preacher was Sister Meg Evening.
The afternoon services were held in the Shrine Church. Canon James
Rosenthal, a non-stipendiary minister of the Wantsum group of
parishes in the diocese of Canterbury, reported that the
congregation overflowed into all the small chapels, as the rain,
dubbed "showers of blessing" by Bishop Lindsay Urwin, OGS, Shrine
Administrator, kept falling. In our photo, the Revd Jason Rendell
holds the holy-looking umbrella