"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, 22 August 2015
Ave Maris Stella
For today's feast of the Queenship of Mary, the Ave Maris Stella from Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. Performed by the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner:
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