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Nota in Brevis
The Fifth Apparition of Fatima
On September 13th, 1917, Our Lady appeared for the fifth time to the three children at Cova de Iria in Fatima. Tens of thousands showed up, clogging the streets and byways, in the hope...
Music
Bruckner’s Ave Maria
In honour of Our Lady's birthday, here is Anton Bruckner’s Ave Maria, which he composed in 1861, and first performed on May 12th of that year. Bruckner was one of the great composers of...
Reviews
Musical Offering: Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra
In honour of the two newest saints in the Church panoply, here is the overture to Rossini's opera La Gazza Ladra - the Thieving Magpie. I'm not sure about Carlo Acutis' proclivities to opera...
Reviews
Musical Offering: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622, was one of Josef Ratzinger's favorite pieces of music, or at least so I recall reading once, even if the cardinal and sometime pope was a pianist. The...
Nota in Brevis
Celebrating Our Baptismal Day
On this day, I was baptized in Saint Patrick's church, in Dumbarton, Scotland, on the commemoration of King Saint Louis IX and Saint Joseph Calasanz, at least in the revised calendar. I recommend to...
Featured Highlights
Ad Caeli Reginam: Encyclical of Pope Pius XII Proclaiming the Queenship of Mary
(As mentioned in an accompanying post, the Queenship of Mary used to fall on the last day of May (now the feast of the Visitation), and was moved to its current location on the...
Nota in Brevis
Pope Calls for a Day of Prayer and Fasting on August 22 ,the Queenship of Mary
In his General Audience yesterday, Pope Leo called for Catholics to pray and fast tomorrow, Friday, on the Queenship of Mary, for the intentions of peace. Here are his words:
Next Friday, 22 August, we...
Quotes
Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His...
