American Baroque for the Indians of the Americas
"...it had reached unto the realm of Paraguay."
Forgotten Customs of Christmas Time
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad before the face of the Lord: because He cometh (Psalm 95:13,11 Taken from the Offertory Verse of the First Mass of Christmas) At the first stroke of midnight on December 25th, the Church in her Sacred liturgy bursts forth in joyous celebration for the birth…
How Were Adam and Eve in Paradise? The Vision of Saint Hildegard of Bingen
Saint Hildegard’s visions depict everything significant that took place in Eden.
The Mass of “the Empire of Christ Over All Nations”
A Kingdom that “receives all nations under its sway."
Forgotten Customs of the Immaculate Conception
Above: the traditional Baile de los Seises in Spain for the Immaculate Conception. The feast of the Blessed Virgin’s Immaculate Conception is the most solemn of all those which the Church celebrates during the holy time of Advent; and if the first part of the cycle had to offer us the commemoration of some one…
A Harmony of Modernity with Tradition
"Surely the first among the German representatives of a new musical art."
Posadas Navideñas: Filipino Advent
The festive Filipino disposition: non-Hispanic traditionalists might dismiss it as ‘spectacle.'
Thanksgiving and the New England Inheritance
The year decays, November’s blastThrough leafless boughs pipes shrill and drear;With warmer love the home clasps fastThe hands, the hearts, the friends most dear. On many seas men sail the fleetOf hopes as fruitless as the foam;They roam the world with restless feet,But find no sweeter spot than home. To-day with quickened hearts they hearOld…
Fees for Church Entrance & the Dwindling Funds for Sacred Music
"Admission to concerts in churches must be free of charge."
On the Newly Canonized Saint Bartolo Longo & Sacred Music
St. Bartolo Longo had experienced a profound spiritual reawakening.
