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Articles
The Ave Regina Caelorum
The Ave Regina Caelorum is the Marian antiphon sung during Lent. Its origins and composer are unknown, but manuscripts exist from the early 12 century onwards. There is the standard Gregorian chant, sung at...
Nota in Brevis
Pope Francis’ Thirteenth
Thirteen years ago, on a fateful March 13th in the year of Our Lord 2013, Jorge Bergoglio was elected the 266th Pope, taking the name Francis, until then never chosen as a pontifical name....
Nota in Brevis
Novena Prayers to Saint Joseph
March 10th - or 11th, if you want to end on the Solemnity itself - is the day to begin the novena to Saint Joseph, - but you may begin anytime, and today is...
Reviews
Allegri’s Miserere and Mozart’s Memory
As we begin the Lenten pilgrimage on this first Sunday, a fitting help to our deovtion is Allegri's Miserere, his unsurpassed musical setting of Psalm 51, recited in Lauds (Morning Prayer) every Friday. Composed...
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Eliot’s Ash Wednesday
T.S. Eliot published his poem Ash Wednesday in 1930, after he had composed during his conversion to Anglicanism (in 1927). The theme is, fittingly, the soul in its journey to find God, with allusions...
Nota in Brevis
Letter to the Editor: Climate Insanity
(What follows is an open letter to the editor of various local papers where I live, and I thought it would do for a wider audience, with the author's permission. What's in the works...
Nota in Brevis
What Was It All About?
Many suspected as much, that the mRNA 'vaccines' were not quite as 'safe and effective', as they were touted to be, as the sign still says at the front of our local care home...
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The Planets Align
This evening, February 20th, and again on February 28th, seven of the planets align in the night sky, a rare event, the official term for which is syzygy. See the link for where you...
