Stabat Mater Dolorosa
On this memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows, two beautiful renditions of Jacopone de Todi’s 13th century poem, Stabat Mater, meditating on the sorrows of Mary ‘standing by the Cross’ (some say it was written by Innocent III). Whoever the author may be, the text is sublime, and music makes it more so. The first[…]