In the beginning was the word
We can be deceived by popular images. Every now and again a religious CD gets into the charts, a CD of Gregorian chant maybe. People who are bored by the Spice Girls turn instead to the Incense Boys. And religious pundits greet the news by babbling away about how it all reveals a deep spiritual hunger. How tranquil the music in the abbey sounds to people caught in the rat race! And for a few well-marketed moments the world changes its take on convents It used to hear nuns chanting and say how cold and fruitless. Now it seems to hear monks chanting and say how cool! But either way, the conclusion seems to be: fine for them: irrelevant for me. Surprisingly topical in view of the signing by Decca of the nuns of L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation near Avignon but clearly dated by the reference to the Spice Girls, those wise words come from a sermon by Father Cormac. As Cormac Rigby he was presentation editor of BBC Radio 3 from 1971 to 1985, and was a Roman Catholic priest