With Love From Chapel - summer Term - Week 9

It was a special day for the chapel today as next year’s Year 7’s embarked on a treasure hunt through the building. What started tentatively - and with a slight air of apprehension and genuine awe - quickly turned into an avid competition to find stories in windows, names on honours-boards and the name of the handsome wooden man standing on a dragon in Memorial Chapel…..(It turned out to be St George)

The more time you spend in our beautiful chapel, the more detail you discover: almost every window shows a different character from the Bible, every plaque is a memory of a Rossallian’s life, every little wooden creature makes you realise just how special a place you are in - and our new Year 7’s certainly discovered every detail, looked into every corner and brought the chapel to life with their enthusiasm and energy.

It is an interesting journey through history when you take the time to look around, read inscriptions on the walls, re-activate your Latin-skills and work out bit by bit what stories the stained glass tells. Younger students tend to be better at this because they ask more questions and take more time to figure out where they might find the answer

Maybe that is something that is not only true for their chapel-tour today - maybe we all need to take a bit more time to allow us to hunt for treasure in the places and the situations we encounter every day around us.

So this weekend, let’s remember the words of Psalm 65: “The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy.”