Category: prayer
#AprilCountry – April 17th, “If Jesus Leads This Army”, Howard Haney
I came across Howard Haney rather randomly via Spotify – on “The Half Ain’t Never Been Told: Early American Religious Rural Music” album From Hillbilly Music.com , here is a…
A poem for Palm Sunday – “The Donkey”, G K Chesterton
I find Chesterton a somewhat mixed bag , and that applies to his poetry also, but this has always moved me deeply, and is all the more effective for concealing…
“Seduced by sinners, fools, & jerks I delight in as I write in my study, my pen my poker, my thoughts often bloody” – ‘Flannery and St. Thomas, Take II’ by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
I posted Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s “Flannery and Dante” the other day. Here is another poem by O’Donnell, this time dealing with Flannery O’Connor and St Thomas Aquinas. “Flannery and St…
#ChoralMarch: March 22nd, “Rorate caeli desuper”, Schola Gregoriana Hispana
Again from Schola Gregoriana Hispana, here is “Rorate Caeli”, also known as “Drop Down Ye Heavens From Above”
#ChoralMarch, March 19th: “Luminosity: 1. Lux Tenebris”, James Whitbourn
Born in 1963, James Whitbourn is a contemporary choral composer who began his career with the BBC. His “Luminosity” is one of the few choral works composed for dance and…
#ChoralMarch, March 13th, In Paradisum, Fauré (from “Requiem”) performed by Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
I first encountered this piece of music in Terence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line”, in early scenes portraying the initially pacific encounter between US military scouts and the inhabitants of…
Séamus Sweeney 