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The William Ferris Chorale is a Chicago-based vocal group, specialising in little-performed works by contemporary or Twentieth Century composers. Here they are, however, with a well known composer. Camille Saint-Saëns…
Another appreciation of Jean Vanier, which ends with this quote from Vanier himself: We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign,…
Joe Heaney was a sean-nos singer born just over one hundred years ago near Carna in Connemara. He sang in both Irish and English, and would contribute to John Cage’s…
From the Dante’s Woods blog: The Church should model this too, as [Rowan] Williams says, “This suggests that the Church needs to be marked by profound patience: patience with actual…
Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche, has died aged 90. From Caramel Caramelo: « L’amour, ce n’est pas faire des choses extraordinaires, héroïques, mais de faire des choses ordinaires avec tendresse.…
A setting of a poem written by (according to the record label site) the Greek Orthodox Saint Nectarios of Aegina , this piece was my first exposure to Greek Orthodox…
“Totus Tuus” was the motto of Pope John Paul II, an allusion to St Louis de Montfort’s formula of total consecration to Our Lady. Appropriately the late Polish composer Henry…
Our Lady Queen of Peace is one of the × of Ballycallan Parish, and is the most “modern” in architecture. Indeed, from the outside it is rather unprepossessing. Inside however,…
Séamus Sweeney 