"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."
Saturday, 29 May 2010
Our Lady on Saturday
Poulenc's Litanies à la Vierge Noire, written in 1936 after a pilgrimage to Rocamadour on his return to the practice of the faith.
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