The Music Regained in Heaven
In the Blessed in Paradise, the instruments project us into the spiritual harmony that the blessed regain in music.
Leo XII: the Forgotten Post-Revolution Pope
"He is a very distinguished and enlightened individual and a Prince full of dignity."
The Mass for Napoleon
It was heard in Paris on April 18, 1802, Easter Sunday, when the Concordat was proclaimed in France.
Saint Nerses the Gracious
He composed the text and the melody of almost 1200 hymns (šarakan), troparia, odes, and liturgical songs.
St. Thomas on the Doctrine of Music
St. Jerome does not absolutely condemn singing, but reproves those who sing theatrically in church not in order to arouse devotion, but in order to show off, or to provoke pleasure.
The English Catholic Who Risked Death for Sacred Music and the Faith
It is music written for an intimate, secret setting... which was punishable in many cases with life imprisonment and even the death penalty.
The Brother of All Sinners
To be happy he would have to make himself immortal.
The Harp of the Holy Spirit
Against the Gnostic heretics, who sowed errors everywhere by means of song.
The First English Female Writer and Mystic
But suddenly, after the priest at her bedside showed her the Crucified One, Julian stopped suffering and had sixteen visions.
Doctor of the Church on the Holy Psalter
What the impressive effect of the people, acclaiming in church the refrain of Psalm 118 (His mercy endures forever) produced in the lackeys of Arius.
The Italian Baroque Marian Music of Easter
The storms, caused by the “crude north wind,” are the threats of Lucifer under the name of Boreas, the icy wind coming the north.