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Vivaldi’s and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater

On this eve of Passion Sunday and Holy Week, and to complement our reflection on Our Lady's role in redemption, we will re-post these two Marian and Lenten musical offerings: The first is Antonio Vivaldi's...

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honours God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition. (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux)

Our Lady’s Musical Selection: Two Magnificats

On this Solemnity of the Annunciation, here are two songs to Our Lady: The first, J.S. Bach's magnificent Magnificat, published in 1733, likely for the feast of the Visitation (May 31st), based on an...

T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral

The Don Bosco Drama Club of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is pleased to present T.S. Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral, with music composed by Melissa Miles and performed by SWC’s music ensemble....

You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach...

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!

So cried Patrick Henry as the closing words of his immortal speech on this day in 1775, on the very eve of the American Revolution, rousing his complacent compatriots - or soon to be...

No Dubium About Irregular Unions

A furore has arisen in the rather staid response of the Congregration for the Doctrine of the Faith to the 'Dubium' - doubt, or question - about the blessing of 'irregular unions', in this...

I only beg, for the love of God, that anyone who does not believe me will put what I say to the test, and he will see by experience what great advantages come from...

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