Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
I first discovered Neil Young’s “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” via St Etienne’s version. If a “standard” can be defined as a song whose essence and meaning transcend the…
I have posted Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, along with Haydn’s Seven Last Words Here is the Introduction “Father, forgive them,…
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE FIFTH WORD I thirst. Our Lord continues to reveal His own condition, since He, after all, is the key to all…
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: “THE SEVENTH WORD Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit. He has cried with a loud voice, and the rocks have…
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE SIXTH WORD: “It is consummated. He has finished His Father’s business, He has dealt with sinners and saints, and has finally…
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: “THE FOURTH WORD My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? Our Blessed Lord in the revelation He makes from the…
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: “THE THIRD WORD Woman, behold thy son. Behold thy mother. Our Divine Lord now turns, from the soul who at one bound…
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE SECOND WORD Amen I say to thee, to-day thou shalt be with Me in Paradise. Our Divine Lord, in this Second…
Séamus Sweeney 