Today we remember Nicholas Ferrar, 1592-1637 who founded a community at Little Gidding, memorialized in the famous fourth verse of the Fourth Quartets by TS Eliot, (1888-1965)

                                        Collect for Guidance     

    

 
 
 
    we 

    pray 

    that …

    among 

    all 
    the 

    cares 

    and  

    occu-
    pations 

    of our 
    life we may not forget you    

We shall not cease from ex-ploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time. 

Through the unknown, re-membered gate When the 

last of earth left to dis-cover Is that which was 

the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall…

                          The beginning of V 4 of The Four Quartets.