Church service in the glow of candlelight with vocal group NOOR and readings.

There are times when sadness and powerlessness fill everything, and we feel that all is dark and there is nothing to do but surrender to it. It feels as though we are standing at an abyss in our lives. It is then that we can come to a dazzling realisation: the darkness has its own resonance.

Where I cannot see a way forward, there is a light of the soul that allows the darkness to be dark and the sorrow to be sorrow – so that life can be life, with all that it holds.

This evening, the church will be filled with choral singing and readings in the glow of candlelight. The readings will include literary and poetic texts drawn from the Bible and world literature.

Through words that speak of the dark night of the…