Lamentations: Tenebrae of Good Friday
Listen to Tenebrae of Good Friday. The Lamentations begin at here at 14:60. ...
Tenebrae of Holy Thursday
Listen to Tenebrae of Holy Thursday here. The Lamentations begin at 16:08. ...
Mother of God, Portress of the Holy Mysteries
Wednesday of Holy Week At Saint Mary Major Today’s Roman Stational Church is the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. We go, in spirit, to this...
Preaching to Preachers: Part III
Homily at Holy Mass We are, all of us, crushed reeds and wavering flames. We are all of us blind, captive, and in darkness. Our...
Pax in caelo et gloria in excelsis
The Second Conference The bright eighth mode intervals of last evening’s Magnificat Antiphon — as we had it in our Benedictine antiphonal — are still...
Pope Benedict XVI on the Sacred Paschal Triduum
Nine years ago, in his Wednesday audience on 8 April 2009, Pope Benedict XVI gave an unforgettable introduction to the Sacred Paschal Triduum, a veritable...
Into the Harbour of the Sacred Passion
Into the Silence Listening to the Passion plunges us into silence. The Word has been silenced. Only a fool would dare to speak. One would...