Vexilla Regis Prodeunt: Chant, Victoria and Palestrina
A blessed and grace-filled Passion-Palm Sunday to one and all of our readers.
Father Callam has a wonderful meditation on the Vexilla Regis Prodeunt, the...
George Cardinal Pell, Freed at Last
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Palestrina’s Lamentations of Jeremiah
In this last day of Lent, Spy Wednesday, we may profit from another musical adaptation of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, in the style of...
Evelyn Waugh and the Mass of the Ages
I was struck as I finished up reading over a small volume of letters by the great English writer Evelyn Waugh, author of such...
Australia needs the Sacred Heart of Jesus
(Australia, the antipodean Land Down Under, is under a severe lockdown, with people arrested for surfing all alone, and, what is far worse, no...
Good Friday: Crux fidelis
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis;
nulla talem silva profert, flore, fronde, germine,
dulce lignum, dulci clavo, dulce pondus sustinens!
Flecte ramos, arbor alta, tensa laxa...
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,...
Handel’s Messiah and the Resurrection
This day, in 1742, April 13th, was the first performance of Handel’s Messiah, in Dublin, of all places. Here was an Oratorio, following the...
Cathedrals and Chastisements
It was one year ago yesterday – April 15th, 2019– that Notre Dame cathedral, built over a century between 1160 and 1260, and has...
Lynn’s Resurrection
The significance of today's Gospel, about doubting Thomas—came home to me in a special way on 1 January 1975 when I was informed of...