Pray silence for the liturgical word
As we celebrate Easter, Quentin Letts applauds the quiet solemnity of the ecclesiastical liturgy and suggests that its transcendent language is sufficient without modern embellishment
As we celebrate Easter, Quentin Letts applauds the quiet solemnity of the ecclesiastical liturgy and suggests that its transcendent language is sufficient without modern embellishment
SOMEWHERE this Easter, a troubled visitor will enter a church to mumble rusty prayers. Easter is the season of renewal, of hope against the odds. In today’s churches, will our searching soul find such redemptions? A new widow may be struggling with bereavement. An unhappy spouse may be looking for calm. Sorrows come in battalions: an ill child, money woes, the farm tax. In my new novel, it happens to be a terminal diagnosis for a corduroy-trousered Englishman. Full of painkillers, he potters to ...