Thursday, November 6, 2025

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Handel’s Messiah and the Resurrection

This day, in 1742, April 13th, was the first performance of Handel’s Messiah, in Dublin, of all places. Here was an Oratorio, following the...

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song (Pope Saint John Paul II)

Just as when we were children, we were afraid to be alone in the dark and could only be assured by the presence of...

The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think   That we are sound, substantial flesh...

Listen and Pray with the Monks at Barroux

If you are so inclined on this Holy Thursday - and a blessed one to all our readers - you may listen to, and...

Were we to fully realize what a priest is on earth, we would die: not of fright, but of love… Without the priest, the...

Palestrina’s Lamentations of Jeremiah

In this last day of Lent, Spy Wednesday, we may profit from another musical adaptation of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, in the style of...

Clarificatio, Dialectica, et Rhetoricae

As I began these podcasts, I deleted the first one I did, for I said something I regretted, and thought, do I do this...