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Were we to fully realize what a priest is on earth, we would die: not of fright, but of love… Without the priest, the passion and death of our Lord would be of no...
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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 the perfect art - ars perfecta - of Palestrina. All...
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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 all over again? Re-takes take up a lot time, as...
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Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it...
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To attain holiness, then, we must not only pattern our lives on Christ’s by being gentle, humble and patient, we must also imitate him in his death. Taking Christ for his model, Paul said...
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The Passions of John and Matthew, in Bach’s Contrapuntal
This is the anniversary of the first performance of Bach's Saint John's Passion, so a re-posting during this Holiest of Weeks seemed to be in order. Johann Sebastian Bach, according to sources, wrote five...
