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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#ChoralMarch 11th: “De Angelis”, Moines de Santo Domingo de Silos
Holding the title of having recorded the best-selling Gregorian Chant album of all time, the Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo de Silos have been described as : The ensemble is not…
What poets, monks and nuns know about silence
Originally posted on Tracy Rittmueller:
Poets live with silence: the silence before the poem; the silence when the poem comes; the silence in between the words, as you drink the…
Denise Levertov, “Conversion of Brother Lawrence”
I particularly love the lines “your way was not to exalt nor avoid the Adamic legacy, you simply made it irrelevant” – which neatly summarises Brother Lawrence’s way of deceptive…
The past and future of handwriting- David Rundle in the TLS
In the current TLS there is an excellent review by David Rundle of two recent books on handwriting. Anyone who knows me, or more specifically had had to read my…
The many uses of St Columba
From Richard Sharpe’s introduction to his translation of of Adomnan’s Life of St Columba, there are some fascinating passages on how Columba came to be used as a sort of…
“Of Smelly Monks and Annoying Neighbours” – Hannah LeGrand in Comment Magazine
Hannah LeGrand has a review of Kyle David Bennet’s Practices of Love in Comment Magazine which is worth reading. I’ve posted before on the romanticisation of monasticism. Both those who…
“Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision – Seven Centuries on Skellig Michael” by Geoffrey Moorhouse
I have yet to actually set foot on either Skellig. Geoffrey Moorhouse, in the preface to his Sun Dancing, describes being captivated by its appearance while on a family holiday in…
Séamus Sweeney 