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June 2015

June 18, 2015

A Bit Of Advice For All Preparing To Read #LaudatoSi

I haven't started Pope Francis' Laudato Si yet, because it's really (really!) long and I'm at...

June 09, 2015

Ennio Morricone Wrote a Mass for Pope Francis

View image | gettyimages.com On a day when I've spent almost all morning with the...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Coda

Looking back on my recently-completed musical adventure, I'm pleased. I feel like it did exactly...

April 05, 2015

The Journey Is Over

He is Risen! Let the Alleluias ring! Haec dies quam fecit Dominus: exultemus et laetemur...

April 04, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 46

Waiting; waiting; waiting. O tù chì dormi in sta petra sculpita d'avè suffertu da colpi...

April 04, 2015

Complacency, Abandonment, And The Violence That Precedes Grace

This piece was originally posted on March 28, 2013. “Our age not only does not have...

April 03, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 45

Bach's Matthäus-Passion has served as the soundtrack to so many of my Good Fridays, I've lost...

April 03, 2015

SVS: “On the Waterfront”

"Some people think the Crucifixion only took place on Calvary. They better wise up!" Recommending...

April 02, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 44

The Matthäuspassion of Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, my first (and to this day, most moving) encounter with his music....

April 01, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 43

Today, the Matthäus Passion of Gottfried August Homilius. I'm not terribly familiar with him as a composer,...

April 01, 2015

“A Condition of Complete Simplicity” from T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”

I can't remember how this came to pass, but over the past few days, I've found...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 42

Georg Philipp Telemann wrote a Matthäus Passion. I did not know this. ...which, by extension, means...

March 30, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 41

Passion Week has begun. And so, here's an unusual Matthaus-Passion from the influential German composer, Heinrich Schütz....

March 29, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 40

Another example of a work I stumbled across quite by accident. Again, from someone I've...

March 28, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 39

Today's bit of Lenten musical meditation is the "Paradisi gloria" from the "Stabat Mater" of...

March 27, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 38

No, I'm not done with Bach this Lent. Not yet. Not by a long shot....

March 26, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 37

Today's piece is "Surely He has borne our griefs" by Kevin Sadowski. I don't even...

March 25, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 36

In honor of today's feast, the opening chorus from Bach's Annunciation cantata, Wie schön leuchtet...

March 25, 2015

“I Don’t Have to Belong to the Catholic Church to Be in Love with Mary”

I love composers who love Mary. So I suppose my long-standing affection for the music of Morten...

March 24, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 35

Today's selection is the "Lacrimosa" segment from the Requiem of Francesco Durante. (The bit that really...

March 23, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 34

Dropping back down into the Russians for a moment. (And when I say "down," I've...

March 22, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 33

For today's musical meditation, English composer Thomas Tomkin's "I Heard a Voice." I heard a...

March 22, 2015

Seeing the Familiar in a New Light: Denise Bossert’s “Gifts of the Visitation”

Devotion to the Blessed Virgin has never come to me naturally. I knew the reasons...

March 21, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 32

Returning to my ancestral roots with "Quis Est Homo," plucked from one of Czech composer František Ignác...

March 20, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 31

Antonio Lotti's "Crucifixus." The whole piece is powerful stuff, but I would call your attention...

March 19, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 30

I'm always amazed at how little music there is that has been written in honor...

March 18, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 29

Sticking with the film composer theme I started yesterday, here an instrumental meditation from Polish...

March 17, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 28

In recent years, I've made a point of posting the Lorica of St. Patrick in honor...

March 16, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 27

I can never stay away from Bach for long. As evidenced by today's selection, his...

March 15, 2015

A Lenten Musical Journey, Day 26

Jumping the gun on St. Joseph's feast just a bit, but I simply cannot help...

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