How I grieve, my God, that you are not known, that this savage country is not yet wholly converted to faith in you, that sin is not yet blotted out! – Saint Jean de Brébeuf, missionary and martyr, +1649
Day: July 2, 2023
Palestrina’s O Bone Iesu
In honour of this month dedicated to the Precious Blood, for our musical selection this week we present Palestrina’s O Bone Iesu, a short motet for four voices composed in 1588. The text runs as follows: O bone Jesu, miserere nobis, quia tu creasti nos, tu redemisti nos sanguine tuo praetiosissimo. O good Jesus, have[…]
Thirteenth Sunday: Accipe Crucem Tuam!
‘Whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me’ (Mt. 10:38). ⧾ The whole content of the gospel at least as it concerns us individually, is given to us by Our Lord today: ‘Whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me’ (Mt.[…]