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Bach’s Two Passions
A blessed and grace-filled Passion/Palm Sunday to all our readers. Johann Sebastian Bach, according to sources, wrote five 'Passions', orchestral chorales based the final days of the life of Christ, but only two have...
Quotes
Let us run to accompany him as he hastens towards his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all...
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Mater Dolorosa: Our Lady of Sorrows
(In the calendar of the usus antiquior, today, the Friday before Holy Week, is the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. In the revisions of the novus ordo, it is on September 15th, the...
Quotes
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water (Saint Jean-Baptise de la Salle, +1719)
Quotes
If you truly want to help the soul of your neighbor, you should approach God first with all your heart. Ask him simply to fill you with charity, the greatest of all virtues; with...
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Lassus’ Psalmi Poenitentialis
Orlando de Lassus (ca. 1532 - 1594), a Dutch composer of the late Renaissance, was also one of the most prolific and influential, up there with Palestrina and Victoria, producing over 2000 surviving works,...
Nota in Brevis
Suffer the Little Children
Francesco Marto died on this day, April 4th, in 1919, a year before his sister and fellow visionary, Jacinta, followed him the following February, 1920, both succumbing to what is inaccurately known to history...
Quotes
If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us. (Saint Isidore of...
