My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
These are strange times. Reason which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
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I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment… rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart such as I have felt it since my childhood.
