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A Christmas Carol: Thoughts, and an Audio Book
Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol was first published on this December 19 back in 1843, and it has been a much beloved classic ever since. It is really is an Advent story, as...
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Bach’s Cantata for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
J.S. Bach composed Cantatas for many Sundays and feasts (over 200!)- in the Lutheran liturgical calendar, to be sure, but one which remained close to its Catholic origins. Here is the one for the...
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Musical Offering: The Alma Redemptoris Mater, in Three Versions
There are various antiphons sung in honour of Our Lady at the close of Compline, for each liturgical season - the Salve Regina for 'Ordinary Time'; the Ave Regina Coelorum for Lent, the Regina...
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Handel’s Miraculous Messiah
On this Second Sunday of Advent, when we read of Saint John the Baptist's preparing the way, it is fitting to immerse oneself in at least the first part of Handel's Messiah.
First performed...
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Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Forty years ago today, on December 14, 1985, Catherine de Hueck Doherty's vagarious life came to its end in a cabin in the remote town of Combermere, Ontario. Born in Russia, and living through...
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Musical Offering: Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending!
Say what you like about the early Methodists, but they could write some melodious hymns, and one of the greatest and most prolific is Charles Wesley (+1788), credited with some 6500 hymns to his...
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The Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Video
In case you need further evidence that the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is miraculous, and truly that of the 'Mother of God', and our mother, this video offers much.
A blessed feast to...
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Prayer of Pope John Paul II to Our Lady of Guadalupe
O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection, hear the prayer that we...
