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Sunday Musical Selection: Tartini and Palestrina

There are a lot of rumours about Guiseppe Tartini (1692 - 1770), a prodigious Baroque composer, who purportedly locked himself away to practise the violin consistently until he became a virtuoso, something parents might...

The Lord Jesus gave Peter the keys to the Kingdom...He gave His Mother Mary the keys to His heart (Pope Pius XII)

But we who hope for the Son of God are persecuted and trodden down by those unbelievers. For the wings of the vessels are the churches; and the sea is the world, in which...

We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking...

Come, we go for our people (the last recorded words of Saint Edith Stein, to her sister Rosa, as they were led to the gas chamber on August 9th, 1942)

Sunday Musical Selections

An organ piece by Buxtehude - who, as you will hear, greatly influenced J.S. Bach, who once walked 250 miles to hear him play. Now, you may listen with the click of a non-church...

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (video)

https://youtu.be/YLB1Uy7k7o4

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