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So begins the story that unfolds across a thousand years and more, a story of blood and thorn, of exile and return, of men and women who sought the kingdom of heaven in the mists of the British Isles.
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The Psalter of the Quatrains - Out of Egypt (opens the original)
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A baby floats down the Nile in a basket of reeds, and a king's daughter kneels to lift him out. Eighty years later, Moses raises a bronze serpent on a pole, splits the sea, and carries down from Sinai the ten words that outlast every empire on earth. Dcn. Seraphim reads the whole life of Moses from the tenth-century Saltair na Rann: the burning bush, the plagues, the Paschal lamb and the blood on the doorposts, Miriam's song, manna in the wilderness, water from the rock, the golden calf, and the
The Blackbird's Nest - St. Kevin of Glendalough (opens the original)
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It is Lent in a steep valley of the Wicklow Mountains, and a man has stood at prayer so long that a blackbird mistakes him for a tree. She builds her nest in his outstretched hand, lays her eggs, and broods there — and Kevin of Glendalough does not move until the last fledgling flies. Dcn. Seraphim tells the story of the hermit who came to the valley of the two lakes to be alone with God and found the whole creation gathering around him: the cow that reveals his solitude, the doe that nurses an
The Voyage - St. Brendan the Navigator (opens the original)
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It is Easter morning somewhere in the cold gray Atlantic fifteen hundred years ago, and fourteen monks light a fire to boil their Paschal kettle — and the island moves. It is not an island; it is Jasconius, the great leviathan of the deep, the first-made of the creatures of the sea, who labors night and day to put his tail in his mouth and cannot — and every Easter for seven years he will come back, gentle as a lamb, to serve as the nave of their church. Dcn. Seraphim turns the boat of our podca
The Psalter of the Quatrains - The Patriarchs (opens the original)
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Dcn. Seraphim continues the read-through of the Saltair na Rann through the three great patriarchs — Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph — finding there the most sustained foreshadowing of Christ in the whole poem so far. We follow the binding of Isaac, the stolen blessing, Jacob's long service for Rachel and his wrestling at the ford, and the twelve sons who become the tribes; and then Joseph, sold by his brothers for thirty pieces of silver, falsely accused and bound, raised at last to the right hand of
The Candle of the Church - The Venerable Bede (opens the original)
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The plague of 686 has emptied the new monastery at Jarrow, and when all the dead are buried only two voices are left who can sing the full daily office — the abbot Ceolfrith, and one small boy of about thirteen whom he had reared in the house. For a week they try the psalms without the antiphons, and they cannot bear the praise of God going up maimed; so the old man and the child sing the whole liturgy of the hours alone, day after day. This boy was none other than the Venerable Bede, whose voic
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