Noye's Fludde
This is a random reading selected from the CRED collectionDaily Reading for 12 December 2004
Today is Gaudete Sunday: traditionally we take time out of the serious business of Advent fasting, to rejoice at the prospect of the coming birth of the Lord at Christmas. Those using the Advent wreath, light a pink candle today instead of a violet one. We are all invited to take heart; for, even though it is a very dark world, the light is soon about to shine. In a world of rape and murder, of war and bombing, God continues to speak his word of hope. That word is Jesus.
On this afternoon three years ago we gathered in Clonliffe church to see the Mater Dei production of Noye’s Fludde, by Benjamin Britten. Singers, percussionists, trumpeters and string players all combined with “animals” and “stars” to tell the story of Noah and the flood. God boomed from above, appealing for conversion; all entered the ark of salvation; the winds blew, but then came the calm, and the rainbow as pledge of eternal grace.
CCC 1219: “The Church has seen in Noah’s ark a prefiguring of salvation by Baptism”.
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