The Virgin of the Passion
Commemoration of the Compassion of the Blessed Virgin Mary Did you know that tomorrow, Friday in the Fifth Week of Lent (Passiontide), is the Commemoration...
Singing the Mystery of the Cross
My doctoral dissertation — it seems so long ago — focused on the Proper Chants of the Paschal Triduum in the Graduale Romanum. The chants...
Fulget Crucis Mysterium
Our Lady Saint Mary, Saint John the Beloved Disciple, and the Wounded Side of Christ With First Vespers of the Fifth Sunday of Lent we...
Jesu, Quadragenariae
VESPERS II Jesus! You taught and sanctified Observance of this Lenten tide; Be pleased our fast to consecrate, And by it mend our broken state....
Et justificata est sapientia a filiis suis
Not a Caravaggio, although it could be taken for one! This painting of Saint John the Baptist is by the Spaniard Bartolomé González y Serrano...