Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
A reader wanted a version of O Magnum Mysterium, by Tomas Luis Victoria, first published in 1572, at the height of the Catholic restoration, a beautiful motet, normally sung at Christmas (it was originally the Midnight Mass antiphon) but works for any time of year:
. . . the rabbis said: “Solomon had three thousand parables to illustrate each and every verse [of Scripture], and a thousand and five interpretations for each and every parable”—which computes to a total of three million fifteen thousand interpretations for every scriptural verse.[1] Suppose we were to apply this statement to the Gospel about[…]
