‘Adapt yourselves no longer to the pattern of this present world, but let your minds be remade and your whole nature thus transformed.’ Romans 12:2                                                                                                                                                         

St Paul writing to the Romans bids us to venture beyond the pattern of this present world and to journey into another realm which allows our minds to be remade and our whole nature transformed. Entering into this world can be a spiritual awakening which was experienced by many of the mystics.     

For this Musical Journey with the Mystics, which Tim Ruffer (RSCM) suggested I composed as another collection, I have chosen thirteen texts and set them to music. Some of the pieces are reworkings of former scores. These prayers, hymns and antiphons speak to me in different ways of the mystical world of which we are all a part.