There can be few spirituality centres in the country which have not been enriched by the hymns and choral works of Margaret Rizza.

There can be few spirituality centres in the country which have not been enriched by the hymns and choral works of Margaret Rizza. But it was not until 1997, when she was in her sixties, that she started composing. A few years earlier she had made the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius at St Beuno’s. She considered a radical move towards working directly with the poor, but realised she was being asked to stay where she was. Music, she said, has its own power to heal when words fail. She found that music grew from prayer, not an accompaniment to prayer but prayer itself, drawn from her anxieties as well as moments of gratitude.

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