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Continuity Walks & Talks
This article first appeared in the December, 2010 issue of Continuity Journal,
co-published in the United Kingdom by Miles Jesu and the Continuity Movement.

Editor’s note: By sharing this article with you we would like to give you a firsthand look at an interesting lay apostolate going on in England....and hope to encourage people in the United States as well as other countries to organize similar events in their own areas!

Arundel is an enchanting place, set in the Sussex Downs, and it has never looked more beautiful than it did on the day that the Catholic History Walkers arrived in early October.

It was a golden Autumn day of mellow sunshine, and we were a small but cheery group. The main party had met in London, on the steps of Westminster Cathedral – the usual gathering-point for Catholic History Walkers – and travelled to Arundel by train, meeting Bryan and Jayne Lock, the indefatigable team that run the British office of Miles Jesu/Continunity, at Arundel.
Arundel is rich in Catholic history. The castle is the ancestral home of the Dukes of Norfolk, the Fitzalan-Howards. They are a Catholic family, and proud of their ancestor, St. Philip Howard, who was a martyr for the Catholic Faith in the reign of Elizabeth I. St. Philip is commemorated in Arundel Cathedral – built by the Fitzalan-Howard family in 1873 – where he is shown with his pet dog, his loyal companion in the grim years he spent in the Tower of London. He was arrested while his wife Anne was pregnant, and during the years of his imprisonment he was not allowed to have any visit from her, and never saw his little son. He would eventually die, after ten years in the Tower, of fever and dysentery. He was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as one of the English Martyrs.

Arundel Cathedral, built by a 19th century Duke of Norfolk, is set on the hill overlooking Arundel, just across the road from the entrance to the Castle. Its monuments include one to four sons of the Maxwell-Stuart family who died in the First World War.

Our Walk took us on a circular route across the Castle grounds, with glorious views. We ate our picnic lunch by the lake, and then followed a tributary of the Arun river out to where it joins the river itself. And from here we had a grand view of Castle and Cathedral, and fresh air blowing straight across from the not-far-distant English Channel. And so, after following the riverbank back into the town, to a hearty tea at a delightful old-fashioned Tea Shop.

It was a perfect day. We had learned much history, we had prayed at the shrine of a great English martyr, we had honoured the service given by good men in war, we had enjoyed some of the most lovely countryside in the south of England. This was the first History Walk to take place on a Sunday – the usual format of London evening walks clearly attracts larger numbers, but the Arundel day was so special that there was a general feeling that it would be great to organize something similar again.

Keep in touch with the program of Catholic History Walks by checking the Continuity website at http://www.milesjesu.com/Continuity/Continuity_Main.html.