Amid all the bad news and the dire predictions of decline - more of which later - a reminder of the eternal truths: the late Sir John Tavener's 'Mother and Child' performed by Tenebrae under the direction of Nigel Short.
The Word was made flesh
And dwelt among us
"Enamoured of its gaze
The mother’s gaze in turn
Contrives a single beam of light
Along which love may move.
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!
Through seeing, through touch,
Through hearing the new-born heart
Conduits of being join.
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!
So is the image of heaven within
Started into life.
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!
As in the first (was) adoration
Another consciousness has come to praise
The single theophanic light
That threads all entrants here –
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!
This paradise where all is formed of love
As flame to flame is lit.
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!
Hail Maria! Hail Sophia! Hail Maria!"
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