In the fall of 2023, I had an extraordinary opportunity to visit Italy and learn about St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, two Christians who took the scriptural call to humility very seriously. After attempting to match this theme with several meters and tunes, I finally thought of the tune SLANE and found some faint echoes of “Be Thou My Vision” and “Lord of All Hopefulness.”

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