Do we deserve God?
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Recent, on Palm Sunday, I was sitting in Canterbury Cathedral listening to Stainer’s Crucifixion and Faure’s Requiem and thinking about the story of Our Lord’s Passion and death that was being portrayed in the wonderful music echoing round the Cathedral. I also thought about the death of St Thomas a Becket who was murdered in the Cathedral not far from where I was sitting and of the thousands of pilgrims who, since Thomas’ martyrdom, had travelled the pilgrimage route across Southern England to his shrine to seek forgiveness from our God and some measure of hope. (more…)