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
There are few – some may argue none – who can match Palestrina’s composition, and his ars perfecta, in full form here with his motet Sicut Cervus, based on Psalm 42, published posthumously in Venice in 1604: Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus. As the deer panteth after the[…]
In the study of hagiography, that is the writing of the lives of saints, one can easily notice the great effect St Martin of Tours’s life story has left on many other saints, starting, of course, from the life of St Francis of Assisi himself. He too, like St Martin, was challenged by the sight[…]
