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The Bidens are in Cornwall, southwest England, where the U.S. president is attending a Group of Seven wealthy democracies summit.
On Sunday morning, ahead of the summits conclusion, they were seen attending mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in St. Ives.
I think gobsmacked is probably a very true word, said Annie Fitzpatrick, 58. Its quite amazing, we went into the church and they took some details from us and I thought this is a bit unusual.
"About 10 minutes into the service the doors opened up and President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden walked in and just sat in the pew just across from me.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-k-churchgoers-stunned-bidens-join-them-sunday-service-n1270608
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,641 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)GoodRaisin
(8,922 posts)His Succubus. That's a good characterization of Melanie.
Budi
(15,325 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Nice one!
Budi
(15,325 posts)🙂
calimary
(81,231 posts)This one certainly is a keeper!
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)paleotn
(17,912 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)large flames coming from their eyes, nose, ears...they would probably explode and end up back here in the good ole USA whole and calling for Insurrection and reinstatement, again.
efhmc
(14,725 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,168 posts)FalloutShelter
(11,860 posts)I adore the Bidens.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)I never thought there could be a First Family as impressive as the Obamas. I can't tell you how delighted I am to be wrong.
liberalla
(9,243 posts)But you have put it into words - perfectly. Thank you!
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)I'm glad it you enjoyed it. Feel free to use it, if you ever feel the need.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)When he is out of town on business.
dalton99a
(81,468 posts)Layzeebeaver
(1,623 posts)Its a very cute section of the town
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)I've always wanted to visit Portwenn, but it doesn't really exist. I realize it's a real village used as location, but it's not the same.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)We took a wrong turn and traveled up the Worthy Toll Road out of Porlock, a very historic and beautiful drive. Since that took longer than the main route, we didn't have a chance to take the side trip to Port Isaac.
Layzeebeaver
(1,623 posts)We watched it being brought into the restaurant from the boat.
It was delicious.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Seriously, I wanted to stop for lunch at the place that was the location for Bert's restaurant. Oh, well - the Worthy Toll Road is a neat drive:
The last part, just as we were getting to the open fields, we were just inundated with pheasants (or maybe grouse). We ended up crawling along since they would fly out of the hedges as we came up to them and we didn't want to hit them.
You can see the main road, A39, that we were supposed to take, but we missed the turn. By the time we realized it, we were almost at the toll road gate so we decided to take it. It was well worth it.
CurtEastPoint
(18,641 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)As for the peasants, the scenery was about right:
Layzeebeaver
(1,623 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)While we may never make it back to the UK - we spent two and a half months in the fall of 2019 - we keep adding places to our list that we would like to go back to see. I'd like to go back to the Orkneys, maybe on to the Shetlands this time, and my husband liked Cornwall best of all. I'd love to go back to Skye since I was sick the day my husband had a tour of the island and so I missed most of it. And I'd love to take the train from Glasgow to Maillag, which is the Harry Potter train.
It's cool to see places on TV shows we've been to in person. I saw a Wycliffe episode set at Lizard with a pivotal scene at the Lifeboat station we got to look down at. And of course, from Doc Martin, Port Isaac looks so familiar.
Layzeebeaver
(1,623 posts)But a tie with the Isle of Harris.
We loved a few stays at the sound of Harris.
https://www.soundofharris.scot|
csziggy
(34,136 posts)But it would be interesting to stay there. How's the bird watching? Any good archeological sites there? Those are what we went to the Orkneys for, birds and holes in the ground.
Layzeebeaver
(1,623 posts)One of the huts has a telescope. So we took it outside one evening. The sky is free from light pollution. It was fantastic.
CurtEastPoint
(18,641 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Who knows what she might have put in it?
CurtEastPoint
(18,641 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)If it wasn't for the hills, I'd like to live there, as long as it came with the cast of characters. My wife wants to move to Dog River, but only if the whole Corner Gas crew came with it.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)gay texan
(2,442 posts)has to keep up with the oil in the engine. Apparently there's a gearhead in the bunch....
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BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Someone showed him how to hold the book properly! NOW it's Presidential.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)You just know, after he corrected his stupid first mistake of holding the holy book upside down, flips it around to present the title of the book, written on the spine, as the name is not written on the front. (I checked other photos)
He has to make sure..for the cameras....that they know what book this is. Like a marketer making sure to present the brand. Totally forced and awkward pose, without any awareness that that is unnecessary to most folks more familiar with what a Bible looks like.
Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)a can of Goya beans.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)a big display of cans of Goya beans spread out on the Resolute desk.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)a big display of cans of Goya beans spread out on the Resolute desk.
Habibi
(3,598 posts)plimsoll
(1,668 posts)Or Christ a that is redeemer for that matter. He looks the perfect part for his religious right base. Stern, dictatorial, authoritarian. Theres a reason they adore him. He personifies the values of their god. Ignore the words they spew, look at the behavior they condone and support.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)"This is my f>@%ing Bible, on my f
needledriver
(836 posts)Having this photo in this thread is like a turd in the punchbowl.
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)Trump never learned that often "less is more". Its not like he hasn't seen the many photos of himself and how ridiculous that tan looks, but I guess he sees what he wants to see.
Cha
(297,188 posts)Bible.. in this case by a butt ugly orange thing with lily white hands.
Permanut
(5,602 posts)aggiesal
(8,914 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)snark.
In all sincerity, being late was probably not his choice. The security people probably held him up, with cooperation of the local Priest.
George II
(67,782 posts)....Biden entered the church.
But as I see almost every week (at least until churches locked down), being late to Catholic Mass is a thing.
mcar
(42,307 posts)I'm not much of a churchgoer these days but I'm a cradle Catholic and even went to a Jesuit college. I used to love those 1/2 hour masses at the college chapel.
shrike3
(3,583 posts)calimary
(81,231 posts)Always aimed for being timely but finding a place to park could be rather challenging.
That said, if Mom got there early enough so we could grab a seat on the center aisle, that was always useful for flirting with the altar boys
Ahhhhh
Catholic school
rustbeltvoice
(430 posts)if you made it for the reading of the Gospel, and stayed to the Consecration--it counts as have attending the Mass.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)come forward for communion and hit the door. To be fair, my sister's husband would stop out in the entry and cross himself before bolting for the car.
We still tease him that he could never have survived the 3-4 hour church we had growing up. Basically, we'd go until the preacher got hungry, then we'd all eat either in the hall next to the chapel or outside.
shrike3
(3,583 posts)calimary
(81,231 posts)One on the tongue and yer done. Bye!
SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)was a prop for a photo-op. I'm a secular humanist, but having a man and woman in charge who actually believe in something gives me more hope and peace than a malignant narcissist and his soft-porn hussy.
President Biden and the First Lady have done so much in three days to repair relationships with our allies, I'm astounded.
badhair77
(4,217 posts)It was after he was VP and before he was a candidate for 2020. He just walked in, sat down in front of her, no fanfare. Just an average Saturday evening.
mcar
(42,307 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,981 posts)Go figure. Ignorance and hatefulness seem to have a uniquely Republican twist these days.
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)Stay away from me.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)and embraced Reagan.
catrose
(5,065 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)rustbeltvoice
(430 posts)you hear ABORTION, they emit it like other repukes did BENGHAZI.
No matter what the nature of something that is good, or pleasant, or likable about Biden, he will be attacked, and his Catholicism denied; while the opposite is true of Orange Caligula. no matter what disgusting, awful thing Trumple-thin-skin says or does, he will be defended with stupid verbal gymnastics.
wendyb-NC
(3,325 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)but I also don't want to subject myself to such torture.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)You don't want to go down that path again, trust me!
Other than that minor concern from me, nice gesture by the Bidens!
Importance of religion by country
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country#
MustLoveBeagles
(11,599 posts)The perishers will have a story to tell. I imagine it will become apart of the church's folklore.
Rhiannon12866
(205,282 posts)is fairly regular about church attendance anyway, but make no mistake that attending a Catholic mass in the UK sent a real message to Boris Johnson abut the viability of negotiating a UK/US trade agreement while the Good Friday accords are in danger.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)He did not to church for a photo op. He goes all the time. He went because it was church day. Its what he does. Everyone makes a big deal of it. Except him. He just does Joe.
Grins
(7,217 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)Oh yeah, that was the last guy.
Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)LaMouffette
(2,030 posts)Rather than the daily taser-gun-like assaults on our country's morality, humanity, ethics, and rule of law that were inflicted upon us for over four years by the former guy.
Love you, President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden!
Rabrrrrrr
(58,349 posts)are anti-Christian.
Biden can go to church a million times and the Evangelicals will never accept him as a Christian.
Trump never goes to church, never did go to church, knows nothing of theology or ethics, and the only time he enters the grounds of a church building is if there's a photo op to be had, and yet his base thinks he's the most pious and holy president ever.