And our first celebrant today is Reverend Dr. Cynthia Hale, who will deliver our opening prayer.

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Sometimes the words are difficult to understand or are prayed in flat and boring tones as though the celebrant doesn't believe them.

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Lorraine Barrett, a former Welsh assembly member who now works as a humanist celebrant, said it was interesting that people had the confidence to declare themselves of no religion or non-Christian.

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