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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...
Reviews
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...
Nota in Brevis
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...
Editor's Corner
Of Flags and Dominions
Today marks the 60th anniversary of our adoption, back in 1965 under Lester B. Pearson, of a the âmaple leafâ as our national flag, replacing the richer symbolism of the Canadian Red Ensign. Whatever...
Nota in Brevis
Jovinus and Faustinus, and All the Single People
Jovinus and Faustinus were two noble brothers, martyred together in the early days of the Church, in about 120 A.D, under Emperor Hadrian, after whom the wall separating England from Scotland was named. As...
Editor's Corner
Ricci and Lucia
On this February 13th we commemorate the mystic Dominican tertiary Saint Catherine Ricci (1522 â 1590), a contemporary of Saint Philip Neri (+1515 -1595), to whom she appeared by bilocation, one of her miracles for her...
