UK Vicar's hymns and prayers on the street

Pat Allerton, vicar of an Anglican church in London's fashionable thing Hill district, isn't one to let a nationwide lockdown get in between him and a mess of hope.

Armed with two loudspeakers, Allerton left his vicar at St. Peter's church and got on his bicycle to deliver his Easter Sunday sermon - onto backstreets.

Allerton, like or Church of England clergy members, has h to be ingenious at finding ways to spre word during worldwide coronavirus pandemic. Church of England has closed all its churches.

For Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, that involved giving his Easter Sunday sermon in his kitchen from behind a makeshift altar.

Allerton said he needed to come up with an Easter alternative, too, as “we were told we couldn’t gar in churches for obvious reasons.” Britain has been under effectively a government-ordered lockdown since March 23, a state of affairs that is expected to be extended later this week.

So a plan was hatched to take church to people.

“In conversation with my bishops, we decided that, yes, this ministry could continue, should continue, but that it could be part of my daily exercise,” Allerton said.

“So w I go on a big bike ride," he continued. "I’m carrying quite a bit of weight, as you can see, with speakers and generator so I’m fully independent, and I just get out and cycle and get around parish and round about local streets looking to bring a bit of hope.”

During his two-wheeled ministry, vicar plays hymns such as “Amazing Grace” through speakers and gars passers-by in song followed by some prayer for people suffering during battle against coronavirus and for front-line health workers in National Health Service.

For Dan Pratt, a tting Hill local, a chance encounter delivered exactly what Allerton wanted to give, much-needed hope two days on from his grandfar's death from coronavirus.

“ family have obviously been a bit torn up about it. We can't be toger, we can't give my nan a hug,” Pratt said. “And worst of all, we can't give him a funeral or send-off or anything like that at moment."

So he decided to go on a run to release a bit of energy, and by chance he came across bike-riding vicar and his loudspeakers.

“It was a bit emotional for me, but it was really, really good," Pratt said.

"That has really really helped me, I say, given loss of my grandfar and what’s going on.”

Is re anything more a man of faith would wish for?

government confirmed Sunday that UK became fourth European country after Italy, Spain and France to reach grim milestone of 10,000 virus-related deaths.

It said 737 more people who tested positive for coronavirus h died, taking total recorded in UK to 10,612.

For most people, new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough.

For some, especially older ults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.

vast majority of people recover from new virus.

According to World Health Organization, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.

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