November 28

昨天送書得茶

今天周末
Saint François d'Assise is an opera in three acts and eight scenes by French composer and librettist Olivier Messiaen, written from 1975 to 1983. It concerns Saint Francis of Assisi, the title character, and displays the composer's devout Catholicism. The world première took place in Paris on November 28, 1983.??? c.f. oxford music dictionary


Quotes:

"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."

"For it is in giving that we receive."

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."

"Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face."