This morning, the Baroness James of Holland Park OBE FRSL FRSA, late Lay Patron of the Prayer Book Society, late of the Home Office, died in the four-and-ninetieth year of her age. Which is to say that PD James died this morning, peacefully and of old age: one of the few causes of death not to be found in her detective novels. One of the great ( Read more... )

O merciful God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life; in whom whosoever believeth shall live, though he die; and whosoever liveth, and believeth in him, shall not die eternally; who also hath taught us, by his holy Apostle Saint Paul, not to be sorry, as men without hope, for them that sleep in him: We meekly ( Read more... )