Off in the nether lands, I heard a sound

Like the beating of heavenly wings

And deep in my brain, I can hear a refrain

Of my soul as she rises and sings

Anthems to glory and anthems to love

And hymns filled with earthly delight

Like the songs that the darkness composes to worship the light

Dan Fogelberg, from Nether Lands

“All has been consecrated. The creatures of the forest know this, the earth does, the seas do, the clouds know as does the heart full of love.

Strange a priest would rob us of this knowledge and then empower himself with the ability to make holy what already was.”

St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th century Catholic mystic and “Doctor of the Church”