Martin of Tour: a man for our time?

Here is the audio track from a reflection on Martin of Tour I gave at Choral Evensong on the occasion of their Patronal Festival at St Martin’s, Providence. The reflections are organized around the suggestion of an internal tension between love and duty that shaped the whole of Martin’s life. In a time of massive change, marked by population migrations, economic pressures, and decay of civic institutions, are all pressures that mark the similarity between 21st-century and 4th-century pressures.