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  <title><![CDATA[Cathedral 101]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Cathedral 101 is an English-language church in Cascais, Portugal. Sunday services at 10:30, pastoral care, baptisms, weddings, and community events.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[English church in Cascais: what to expect on your first visit]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[People often arrive at Cathedral 101 having not been inside a church for years, sometimes decades. Some come because they have just moved to Portugal and want a point of connection. Some come because something difficult has happened. Some come because they walked past on a Tuesday and noticed the door was open. Whatever brings you, this is a plain account of what you will find.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-12</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Arranging a church wedding in Cascais: a practical guide]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Weddings at Cathedral 101 are conducted in English, with Portuguese elements available on request. The church seats 80 guests. The aisle is approximately twelve metres. These are the facts. What follows is a more complete account of what the process looks like, from the first email to the day itself.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-03</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Baptism at an English-language church in Portugal]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Baptism at Cathedral 101 is conducted in English, with Portuguese elements available if the family prefers. The font is original to the building, a shallow limestone basin that has been in place since the structure was first consecrated in the late nineteenth century. This is what the process looks like.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-18</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Finding community as an expat in Cascais]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Moving to a new country is disorienting in ways that are hard to predict. The practical things, the bank account, the NIF, the school registration, tend to get sorted. The social things take longer. Cathedral 101 did not set out to be a community hub for English-speaking expats in Cascais, but that is partly what it has become, and it is worth being honest about why.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-02-14</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pastoral care for English speakers in Portugal]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Pastoral care is a term that can sound formal or institutional. At Cathedral 101 it means something simpler: a confidential conversation with Reverend Thomas Alcott about whatever is making life difficult. These conversations are not psychotherapy. They are not spiritual direction in any technical sense. They are an honest space for people who need one.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-01-22</pubDate>
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