RIP David Amess – a Requiem Mass for the Don Quixote of British Politics

On a crisp and sombre November day at a packed out Westminster Cathedral, His Eminence Cardinal Nichols was the Principal Celebrant at the Requiem Mass for Sir David Amess MP, who had been MP for Southend West until his murder on October 15^th at a parliamentary surgery. His body lay to rest in the crypt of St Mary’s Undercroft, in the Palace of Westminster, the night before the Requiem Mass. This was also where all five of his children had been christened. 

Among the other celebrants were His Excellency Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, Nuncio to Great Britain, the Right Reverend Alan Williams, Bishop of Brentwood, Rev Canon Pat Browne – who married Sir David at the cathedral and who gave a moving personal homily – the Roman Catholic Priest for Parliament.