‘O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention’
– William Shakespeare, Henry V Act I Scene I
‘When the day of Pentecost came,
they were all together in one place.
Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven
and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire
that separated and came to rest on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.’
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I absolutely loved that play! I memorised King Henry’s speech “Once more unto the breach dear friends, once more. Or close the wall up with our English dead…”