Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God (Saint Bonaventure, +1274)
Day: July 15, 2023
Our Lady of Mount Carmel and her Scapular
Our Lady of Mount Carmel ‘But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear…many Prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it’ (Mt. 13:16-17). In the Church’s Calendar of Saints, July 16th[…]
The Scottish Brogue Wins Many Merry Souls
Someone – ironically, a good friend with a pronounced British accent – sent me this tongue-in-cheek article from the Babylon Bee: Study Finds Preaching With A Scottish Accent Results In 300% More Salvations I do have something of a bias and attachment to the Scotch brogue, which I consider – and pardon my provincialism –[…]
Bruckner’s Os Iusti: The Mouth of the Just Man
On this memorial of Saint Bonaventure – as mentioned in our post, one of the 37 Doctors of the Church – a fitting musical accompaniment is Anton Bruckner’s motet Os Iusti, (see the reflection on the composer by Julian Kwasniewski today in Crisis). The text is drawn from Psalm 36/37, used in the office of[…]