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Articles
Masterpieces of Easter Music
The original Gregorian chant of the traditional Easter sequence, Victimae paschali laudes, which goes back to the 11th century, perhaps to Wipo of Burgundy, but also attributed to others. As someone wrote, the best...
Nota in Brevis
The Quiet Man
Call me a sentimentalist, but it's one of my favourite short stories, evoking an Ireland that no longer is, but may be again:
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/walshm-quietman/walshm-quietman-00-h.html
The 1952 film version of The Quiet Man, with John Wayne and...
Reviews
Vivaldi’s Magnificat
Monsignor Antonio Vivaldi was not only one of the greatest of Baroque composers, but also a Catholic priest, who directed a girls' orphanage, for whose residents he wrote much of his music - for...
Nota in Brevis
Signs in the Sky
Signs can be ambiguous, or they can be very certain. There are the 'signs' of the sacraments fall into the latter category, given to us to ensure we are given grace, in its various...
Nota in Brevis
Napoleon and ABBA’s Waterloo
In one of those odd confluences of history, today marks the day in 1793 when the Committee of Public Safety - a modern ring, that - was formed during the French Revolution, under Robespierre....
Nota in Brevis
Miss Rowling’s Stand
I was never a big fan of the Harry Potter books, for various reasons. I tried to read one - I was not their target audience, in age or proclivity - and just could...
Editor's Corner
Saint Richard of Sussex
Saint Richard of Chichester (+1253) was a mediaeval bishop in Sussex - now the patron saint of that bucolic region in the south of England, whence hailed Hilaire Belloc. I'm not sure if he...
Editor's Corner
It’s Official: John Paul II Day in Canada
Our parish priest reminded us this morning that by statutory law in Canada, today is officially 'John Paul II Day'. I must confess that I did not know, and somehow missed, that back on...
