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Monthly Archives: March 2020
Passion Sunday (Fifth Sunday of Lent)
One unforeseen perk of being a parish music director is the ability to participate at Holy Mass during this strange period. I am grateful to my wife and daughters for providing the beautiful chant. In the future, I am hoping … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, Music, Sacred Music, Sacrosanctum Consilium
Tagged Fifth Sunday of Lent, Judica Me Deus, Passion Sunday, Sacred Music
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A Confusion about the Common Good
In the not too distant future, I am hoping that someone much brighter than I will perform the heavy philosophical lifting that it will take to state precisely what is wrong with the current approach that our Church is taking … Continue reading
Posted in America, Aquinas, Common Good, liberal education, Modernists, philosophy, Socrates, The Mass
Tagged Common Good, Coronavirus, Cuomo, Socrates' cave
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A Dialogue Concerning Large Discourse
Today we shall content ourselves with purely intellectual discourse. OX: Why? Lion: Because you and I, my dear Ox, both possess the ability for large discourse! And as we all know, reaching way back to the vestiges and remnants of … Continue reading
Sadness and Anxiety With William Byrd
No better way to purge anxiety and sadness than through the music of Byrd! Tristitia et anxietas occupaverunt interiora mea. Mœstum factum est cor meum in dolore, et contenebrati sunt oculi mei. Væ mihi, quia peccavi. Sed tu, Domine, … Continue reading
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Tagged passions, Tristia et anxietas, William Byrd
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On March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry made a famous speech. Would he repeat it today?
In the face of COVID-19, one wonders if Patrick Henry would have repeated today the sentiment that he uttered before the second Virginia convention on 23 March 1775. Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What … Continue reading
The Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well: Who Were Those Five Husbands?
[I could not resist reposting this – the original may be found here with a number of great comments!] The Gospel for the third Sunday of Lent offers a special little gem for the classically minded church-goer. As Jesus is … Continue reading
Posted in Augustine, Catena Aurea, classical education
Tagged Elizabeth Taylor, Gary Michuta, samaritan woman
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Learning in Virus Time
In a sermon delivered in the Fall of 1939 titled Learning in Wartime, C.S. Lewis asserts, every Christian who comes to a university must at all times face a question compared with which the questions raised by the war are … Continue reading