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Catholic Insight

Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World

Day: April 8, 2020

Palestrina’s Lamentations of Jeremiah

In this last day of Lent, Spy Wednesday, we may profit from another musical adaptation of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, in the style of the perfect art – ars perfecta – of Palestrina. All part of that incarnational liturgy, that by force of circumstances, we must adapt for ourselves, in light of the Church’s Tradition[…]

Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried ‘away with him! Crucify him!’ (Pope[…]

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