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Nota in Brevis
Dr. Richard Shaw – Talk in Ottawa this Friday
For those readers in the Ottawa region - Canada's capital! - there is a talk this Friday, November 10th, by Dr. Richard Shaw, a professor of history at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College....
Reviews
Sunday Musical Offering: The Time for Flowers, and Mozart’s 36th Masterpiece
A friend just sent along this poignant ballad, and as I wrote in reply, in gist, that I enjoy pretty much anything with a finger-picked guitar and a fiddle. The melody and the lyrics...
Quotes
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. (G.K. Chesterton)
Quotes
Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God (Saint Martin de Porres +1639)
Quotes
For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead. But if he was looking to the splendid...
Nota in Brevis
A Saintly Major-General
It is impressive, fitting for this Solemnity - and a quasi-litany as a bonus:
https://youtu.be/Fnt-P38ykc4
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Palestrina’s Iesu Rex Admirabilis
The feast of Christ the King (in the usus antiquior) was put in place on this last Sunday of October to counteract so-called Reformation Sunday, for the Protestants held that the earthly potentate was...
Nota in Brevis
The Conversion of Eva Vlaandinerbroek
We cradle Catholics all feel a bit of a boost when we hear of converts, especially of the famous sort, even if we also welcome the infamous, the non-famous, the obscure and the hidden...
