Visions of amen: Olivier Messiaen's transcendent music.(Biography)

The Christian Century | December 30, 2008| | Copyright

"My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith."

--Olivier Messiaen

VAST AS THE HEAVENS are that surround us, we seldom lift our gaze beyond the narrow boundaries of daily tasks. We know we were made only a little lower than the angels, yet we stumble along from hour to hour as if life's highest purpose were punching a time clock and watching a favorite show. Like Prufrock, we measure out our lives in coffee spoons.

And yet from time to time the scales fall from our eyes and glimpses of ...

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