REPORTAGE – The Queen of the United Kingdom was also head of the Anglican Church. Since his death, religious services have been celebrated daily in all the churches.
Early this Sunday morning, the two towers of the main portal of the iconic Westminster Abbey plunge into the London mist. The warmth of the September days has not yet chased away the morning humidity and a handful of worshipers dressed in black crowd into the abbey closed to visits.
We come for the 8 o’clock low mass. More confidential than the solemn office of 11 am celebrated by the metropolitan archbishop, the service is held by two clerks, in all sobriety despite the emotion which reigns under the vaults several hundred years old of the abbey. 70 years ago, Elizabeth II promised in this very place, during her coronation, to “maintain the laws of God and the true profession of the gospel” and of “to protect inviolably the foundation of the Church of England, its doctrine, its worship, its discipline».
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In the middle of the assembly, contemplation supplants memories. We whisper and we pray. “Gracious God, we give thanks for the life of your servant Queen Elizabeth…
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