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Record Turkey Prices – “Thanksgiving dinner will cost 20% more this year compared to last year.” Thanksgiving Necessary for National Renewal (The Association of Mature American Citizens) Latin Mass Revival – An ancient form of […
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Where does God show up on your calendar?
Read MoreThe Great Passion by James Runcie Bloomsbury, £16.99, 272 pages This sublime novel about the domestic and spiritual genesis behind Johann Sebastian Bach’s writing of his St Matthew Passion – first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday, 1727 – is every bit as brilliantly dramatic as Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus. I couldn’t put it
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Read MoreBishop Athanasius Schneider, Msgr. Alberto Turco, Dr. William Mahrt, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, Dr. Edward Schaefer, Fr. Chad Ripperger, Fr. Mark Bachmann OSB, Mr. Nicholas Lemme… these are the speakers of the online International Gregorian Chant Conference, Sept 25 – Oct 2, hosted by the Gregorian Chant Academy.
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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 […]
by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Music, News | 0 |
Shopping at various grocery stores in the Richmond area the early 2000s, customers might have heard a toddler singing in the cart as her mother shopped for her family.
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Temptations To Good. Any thoughtful theologian will recognize the maxim: “Grace builds on nature.” One of my favorite saints, Father John Vianney, often echoed that idea in his sermons. The Curé of Ars would forcefully remind his congregation: “even the heathen admits the beauty of the Christian life.” Despite what we read in the newspapers […]
450 years ago, on May 13, 1572, after a conclave lasted less than a day, a man, to whom we owe our calendar and the scrupulous implementation of the decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), was unanimously elected to […]
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450 years ago, on May 1, 1572, the great Pope of the Catholic Reform promoted by the Council of Trent, the “Pope of the Rosary”, glorious in crushing the enemies of the Church – external, like the Ottoman Turks, and […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | doctors of the Church, Music, News | 0 |
Photo: Catedral de Santa María de la Sede, Seville, Spain. Three hundred years ago yesterday, on April 25, 1722, the last of the Christian Fathers of antiquity was proclaimed Doctor of the Church by Pope Innocent XIII: St. Isidore of […]
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Those 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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