Without Darkness
The Magnificat antiphon for vespers tonight, the feast of St Laurence, sets a phrase attributed to the fourth-century martyr:
Mea nox obscurum non habet, sed omnia in luce clarescunt.
‘There is no darkness in my night, but all things are brightly illumined by the light.’
The message resounds with particular authority in the sweet luminosity of a Northern Norwegian summer night.
