'Father Forgive'

On the charred walls behind the Altar, Provost Richard Howard wrote the words ‘Father Forgive’.

Just a few short weeks later he broadcast to the nation saying “What we want to tell the world is this: that Christ born again in our hearts today, we are trying, hard as it may be, to banish all thoughts of revenge…… We are going to try to make a kinder, simpler, a more Christ-Child-like sort of world in the days beyond this strife…”