"This, then is our desert:
to live facing despair,
but not to consent.
To trample it down under hope in the Cross.
To wage war against despair unceasingly.
That war is our wilderness.
If we wage it courageously,
we will find Christ at our side.
If we cannot face it,
we will never find him."
Sunday 16 February 2014
The Western Wind
Appropriately, given the weather, the 'Western Wynde Mass' by John Taverner (c1490 - 1545) - based on the early sixteenth century popular song 'The Westron Wynde' - sung here by Ars Nova of Copenhagen directed by Paul Hillier
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