Saint Nerses the Gracious
He composed the text and the melody of almost 1200 hymns (šarakan), troparia, odes, and liturgical songs.
Does the Church Have a Duty to Protect Her Own Cultural Heritage?
"Holy Mother Church holds all lawfully acknowledged rites to be of equal right and dignity; that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every way." -Vatican II
Jesuita non Cantat
"When asked about the fact that the new Pope did not sing and paid little attention to ceremonies and rituals he had to answer that this is typical of the Jesuit."
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.
“Thou art Peter”: a Roman Tradition of Sacred Music
Unsurprisingly, Palestrina’s Iberian counterpart, Tomás Luis de Victoria, also has a six voice setting of this text.
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.
The Catholic Music of an Anglican Coronation
Today we would need an aesthetic conversion, to truly return to the beauty that speaks to us of God.
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.
