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Nota in Brevis
Allegri and Bach’s Passion
To help begin your journey through these forty days and forty nights, delve into Allegri's unmatched masterpiece Miserere mei, Deus, composed in the 1630's under the reign of Pope Urban VIII, around the time...
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Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of...
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Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy. (Mother Teresa)
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In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful...
Nota in Brevis
Casimir, Strikes and Deficits
Saint Casimir died young - as the good are wont to do - entering eternity, after a battle with tuberculosis, on this day, March 4th, 1484, at the tender age of 25. He was...
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Whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. What more effective prayer could we then make in the name of Christ than in the words of his own prayer? (Saint...
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Who has made you lord and master of everything on earth? In short, who has endowed you with all that makes man superior to all other living creatures? Is it not God who asks...
