May 2, 2019

#MarianMay : ” O Pure Virgin”, written by St Nectarios from “Byzantine Music of the Greek Orthodox Church”

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…

July 3, 2016

Hesuchia – “we strive in order to be at rest”

My last few posts raised the risk that this blog would turn into a series of quotes from Alasdair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue” (a book I am well aware has many critics) – so now…