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…
