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Music
Musical Offering: Hassler, Grieg and Our Lady
A blessed Sunday to one and all!
German composer Hans Leo Hassler was born on this October 26th in 1564, bringing much of the genius and style of Italian renaissance polyphony into his compositions. Although...
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Saint Marguerite d’Youville
MARGUERITE d'YOUVILLE, the first native Canadian to be elevated to sainthood, was born October 15, 1701 at Varennes, Quebec. She was the eldest of six children born to Christophe Dufrost de Lajemmerais and Marie-Renée...
Nota in Brevis
Submarine Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude is one of those double-barreled German words that signifies more than its literal meaning. Like schweinehund - pig-dog - which brings to mind a whole panoply of images, schadenfreude - sorrow-joy - implies...
Editor's Corner
Our Lady of Good Remedy
On this October 8th, we commemorate Our Lady of Good Remedy, fittingly the day after Our Lady of the Rosary (also called Our Lady of Victory). Our Lady of Good Remedy is a title...
Nota in Brevis
Duc in Altum: A Perpetual Adoration Success Story
"Duc in altum" is a Latin phrase meaning "put out into the deep," originating from Jesus’ words in the Gospel of Luke 5:4. Christ commanded Simon Peter to "Put out into the deep and...
Editor's Corner
Canada Moribunda?
The title says much of what is in this grim article: Canada, old, poorer, smaller. That is, old and smaller demographically, not in the geological or geographic sense. I strive to see things as...
Nota in Brevis
Novena to the Canadian Martyrs
Here in Canada, we celebrate the feast of the Canadian Martyrs on September 26th, so the novena to them begins today. Our Dominion could certainly use their intercession, so I urge readers to join...
Editor's Corner
Saint Thomas of Villanova
This Saint Thomas (1488 - 1555), of noble Spanish lineage, and had it all, as the saying goes, taking as his 'last name' the place from which he came, Villanueva. Like Christ, although rich,...
