Offsite Post: ‘Western Devolution’

 

Northern France stood astounded at the success

Of St. Bertin in the most sublime

Creative art, the making

Of divine humanity – hundreds of monks

And laymen shining with the blinding

Beauty of Taboric Light; Artois

Saturated with heavenly immanence;

A foretaste of the sweetness of the eschaton

Satisfied many souls.

 

                                                What madness

Has impelled us to abandon

The ascetic life that actualized

The highest human aspirations?

 . . .

The rest is at https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/western-devolution/.

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To read an account of the life of St Bertin, mash this link:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/052.html

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!