Advent: Allowing ourselves to be bathed in the light of heaven
I love the hymns that accompany us through the Advent season. A term I sometimes hear used for them is “haunting.”
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I love the hymns that accompany us through the Advent season. A term I sometimes hear used for them is “haunting.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Bible reading, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Christian marriage, Eucharistic Adoration, Faith Fundamentals, hymns, Litanies, News, novenas, Stations of the Cross | 0 |
Prayer is communication with God, it needs to have a central place in every Christian marriage, and it has a powerful unifying effect for a couple. Healthy communication strengthens relationships, and if prayer is communication with God, regular, sincere communication with God strengthens a person’s relationship with God, as regular, sincere communication between a husband and wife strengthens the person’s relationship with one’s spouse.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Featured, hymns, Music, News, sacred music, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
In today’s installment, I humbly offer a solution to temptations against purity and a solution to bad church music. What Are They Thinking? • Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (d. 1591), as a young man, would become embarrassed when friends at the dinner table told lewd stories. (Today, such stories are paradoxically labeled “adult content.”) The young […]
Read MoreThose who underestimate the efficacy of sound do so at their own peril. Filmmaking students are quickly introduced to this maxim: “What the ear hears is more important than what the eye sees.” This may come as a surprise. After all, isn’t a video primarily about what people see? But the truth remains: a pristine […]
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R.J. Snell: Restore our worship; give us our birth-right, our baptismal rights, to be oriented to God and the consuming fire of his love.
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Anthony Esolen: Editors of hymns and hymnals destroy the poetry of old hymns by modernizing them. Other features of Lent are also muffled or silenced.
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