Saint Anselm, 1033 – 1109, leading Christian thinker in the 11th century Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093, in the wake of the Normal Conquest.

                                             The Gloria 

                                        in excelsis Deo*

You 

alone 

are 

the 

Holy 

One,

you

alone 

are 

the Lord, 

You alone are

 "I do not seek to understand that 

I may believe, 

but I believe in 

order that but I 

may understand.

"submitting belief to the bar 

of experience is today a re-

quirement of every believer, 

on pain of leaving one’s ex-

perience unanchored and o

ne’s belief unsubstantiated" 

     (Jack Mahoney, SJ  

*One of only 2 canticles which are not taken directly from Scrip-ture, the Gloria has been used in the Church since the 

4th century.