In the early morning hours of July 30th, 1945 – fifteen minutes after midnight, to be precise - in the last days of the World War, an American aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Indianapolis, was...
Hilaire Belloc was born on this day, July 27th, 1870, 150 years ago, making this his sesquicentennial birthday, which we hope is a bit more joyful for the reader than Canada's own damp squib...
Burning with the fire of love, she longed for him who she thought had been taken away. And so it happened that the woman who stayed behind to seek Christ was the only one...
For the word of God is light to the mind and fire to the will, enabling man to know and to love God. To the interior man who lives by grace for the Spirit...
An anthem by G.F. Handel, composed 1717-18, whose beginning strains echo those of the Messiah, but quickly gains its own flavour and personality - listen, and enjoy the richness of the baroque:
https://youtu.be/YMgm6Jcoisc