Dance music for the organ - the great Marie-Claire Alain plays Bach: Ach Bleib 'bei Uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649 on the Great Marcussen organ of the Church of Varde in Denmark.
Saturday, 6 May 2017
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
La Peregrina
Again, for the month of May, one of my favourite places: the chapel of 'La Peregrina' in Pontevedra, Galicia - Mary, the Mother of the Church, as a humble pilgrim walking the Camino to Santiago de Compostela ...
"With the divinest Word, the Virgin
Made pregnant, down the road
Comes walking, if you'll grant her
A room in your abode."
St John of the Cross (trans. Roy Campbell)
Monday, 1 May 2017
May is Mary's month
"The artist studies his unfinished work; he contemplates this stainless lily that must be extricated from the thorns and the mud, this sacred mouth that is capable of pronouncing the supreme Fiat in an attitude of patience, piety, compassion, understanding, supplication, and counsel. There must be nothing pure in human nature that does not share in this fruition and nothing impure that does not share in this purification. "
Paul Claudel
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