Day: March 11, 2019

Faure’s Requiem

By Catholic InsightPosted on March 11, 2019Posted in Featured

The Ecclesiastical Schola of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, in conjunction with Our Lady of the Wayside School accompanied by a chamber orchestra, are presenting Gabriel Faure’s hauntingly beautiful Requiem, completed in 1900 and which, as the composer himself confessed, is ‘dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest’.[…]

Brother John: A Monk, A Pilgrim, and the Purpose of Life

By John Paul Meenan, EditorPosted on March 11, 2019Posted in Book, Reviews, Editor's Corner

August Turak has written a delightful little book – and by ‘little’, I mean the term in a way similar to Christ’s usage of the term, humble, simple, without much in the way of guile and pretence. The story is an illustrated version of an essay, for which Turak won the much-esteemed Templeton Prize in[…]