tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post3334659114941002922..comments2024-03-25T20:43:33.067+00:00Comments on A Clerk of Oxford: 'þu eart dust and to duste gewendst': Ælfric, Ash Wednesday and 'The Seafarer'Clerk of Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-53883584758069344612016-03-14T15:56:16.001+00:002016-03-14T15:56:16.001+00:00The sea versus the land is a powerful analogy of a...The sea versus the land is a powerful analogy of a theme that I have copied onto a card from a Lenten sermon of St. Leo the Great:<br /><br />"And thus is perfectly fulfilled that assurance of the truth, by which we learn that "narrow and steep is the way that leads to life;" and whilst the breadth of the way that leads to death is crowded with a large company, the steps are few ofFiordelisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03401274152456969712noreply@blogger.com