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Nota in Brevis
Two Musical Settings of the Crux Fidelis
While we're still in the penitential part of the Triduum, still preparing for the great solemnity of Easter joy - here are a couple of musical selections:
The first is the chant version of the...
Nota in Brevis
T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral
If you didn't catch Murder in the Cathedral, the annual drama production of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, the first time around, or would like a second-listen, please do feel free to sit...
Quotes
In those days, when the destroying angel saw the blood on the doors he did not dare to enter, so how much less will the devil approach now when he sees, not that figurative...
Editor's Corner
Tenebrae: Monsignor Ronan, Saint Michael’s Choir School and Thomas Tallis
'Tenebrae' - or 'darkness', in Latin - is a service of solemn songs and readings in the three days (the 'Triduum') commemorating our Lord's own descent into His Passion, with the gradual extinction of...
Featured
Open Letter from Cardinal Zen to Cardinal Sarah
It has been a beloved custom of priests from across the earth to say a private Mass on one of the 45 side altars or 11 chapels when visiting the great Saint Peter's Basilica...
Quotes
Oh, how great is a priest! The priest will not understand the greatness of his office till he is in Heaven. If he understood it on earth, he would die, not of fear, but...
Nota in Brevis
Spy Wednesday’s Briefly Noted
Today is Spy Wednesday in our tradition, the day on which Judas Iscariot decided to hand over Our Lord for thirty pieces of silver which, as the sermon at Mass this morning pointed out,...
