Monday, November 1

 
A year ago today, I was in Venice, stranded at S. Giorgio Maggiore in the driving rain, and we were all attending a solemn Mass with the Benedictine monks. The recessional was, of all things, an organ intabulation of Luther's "A Mighty Fortress is Our God." Considering the day before All Saints Day is celebrated as Reformation Day by the Lutherans, I wondered if this was merely an extremely strange coincidence, or perhaps proof of the Divine sense of humor.

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