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Posted on August 28, 2019

Frank La Rocca: A contemporary composer on the countercultural duty of sacred music

Recently I discovered the contemporary composer Frank LaRocca. From his online bio: Trained as an academic modernist during his degree studies at Yale and University of California, Berkeley, La Rocca…

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Posted on August 27, 2019August 25, 2019

Patron saint of “difficult marriages and disappointing children”: August 27th, the Feast of St Monica

It is the feast of St Monica, mother of St Augustine and patron saint of, inter alia, “difficult marriages; disappointing children; victims of adultery or unfaithfulness; victims of (verbal) abuse;…

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Posted on August 27, 2019August 25, 2019

August 27th, Feast of St David Lewis, martyr and the last Welsh Jesuit for 322 years

This is the Feast of St David Lewis, a Jesuit priest and martyr killed in 1679 for being a Catholic priest: David Lewis was born in Abergavenny in the year…

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Posted on August 25, 2019August 25, 2019

Meáchan Rudaí/ The Shape of Things a poem by Liam Ó Muirthile set to music by The Gloaming

The Gloaming are something of a traditional Irish music supergroup, infused with something of a post-classical/Indie sensibility. They comprise  fiddler Martin Hayes, guitarist Dennis Cahill, veteran Sean Nos singer,  Iarla Ó Lionáird, fiddler Caoimhín…

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Posted on August 22, 2019

For Feast of the Queenship of Mary: Salve Regina, sung by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos

For a previous post featuring these monks, see here.

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Posted on August 22, 2019August 22, 2019

Matthew S Leonard and Curtis Mitch on the Queenship of Mary

It is the feast of the Queenship of Mary, and here is a high-energy podcast hosted by Matthew S Leonard on the scriptural roots of the Queenship concept. Leonard has…

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Posted on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019

The Stepping Stones to Eternity — from Flowering Poverello

From the Flowering Poverello blog, a poetry sequence which, for some reason, especially resonated. I will let it speak for itself, except the resonance began with the opening lines “I…

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Posted on August 19, 2019

Biblical advertisting: Proverbs 11:1 in Bunbeg

In Bunbeg, Co. Donegal (officially the smallest fishing harbour in Ireland), one sees the following written in old Gaelic script (note the “overdot” or ponc séimhithe used to indicate a…

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