‘One far fierce hour and sweet…’

And so we enter Holy Week; the long pilgrimage of Lent is nearly over, but there is a hard path yet to tread, right down into the cold depths of mankind’s heart, and then a stiff climb straight towards dazzlement.

The rest of G.K. Chesterton’s Palm Sunday poem is here: such wonderfully plain words!  It is not easy to write like that.