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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. (G.K. Chesterton)
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Behold, the pagans have trodden your cross underfoot! Where is your glory? As I see all this, I would, in the ardent love I have for you, prefer to be torn limb from limb...
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Your heart must rejoice beyond words, soaring into an immensity of gladness, unrestrained by syllabic bonds. Sing to him with jubilation. (Saint Augustine)
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to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen. (Jude 1:25)
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Vivaldi and Reali: Baroque Masters
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) was a Catholic priest, but one who spent much of his time as a composer than a pastor due, as he confessed, to his own precarious health. This was...
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When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all. (Hilaire Belloc)
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The aim of natural science is not simply to accept the statements of others, but to investigate the causes that are at work in nature. (Saint Albert the Great, +1280)
Nota in Brevis
Eastern Mediaeval Chant
In honour of today's memorial of Saint Josaphat, the great apostle of the union between East and West, here is a sample of a mediaeval chant of the Eastern rite to Our Lady, Come...
