Palestrina’s Magnificat of Mary
On this Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, her is a beautiful rendition of Palestrina’s Magnificat (1591), as sung by the British vocal ensemble Voces8, which... Read more.
Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment... Read more.
Pope Benedict XVI, Requiescat in Pace
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (1927 – 2022) died this morning, at 95 years old, at 9:34 Rome time, in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery at the Vatican,... Read more.
May the silence of Nazareth teach us recollection, inwardness, the disposition to listen to good inspirations and the teachings of true masters. May it teach us... Read more.
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. (Saint Thomas a Becket, +1170)... Read more.
Protecting Holy Innocents in Malta
On the liturgical feast of the Holy Innocents, the Church honours the first martyrs who gave their lives for our Lord Jesus, the children of Israel killed by King... Read more.
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, composed and performed in 1734-35, along with the Easter and Ascension Oratorios, is the most complex of the three, in six... Read more.
How great a gift of grace is here! To what merits of their own do the children owe this kind of victory? They cannot speak, yet they bear witness to Christ. They... Read more.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him... Read more.
Christian, remember your dignity, and now that you share in God’s own nature, do not return by sin to your former base condition. Bear in mind who is your head... Read more.