Music
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Taylor Scott Davis’s More Love Sung by VOCES8 & Lyyra
More love, more love the heavens are blessing, the angels are calling, O Zion, more love. If ye love not each other in daily communion, how can ye love God whom ye have not seen? More love, more love. Alone by its power, the world we may conquer, for true love is God. If ye… Continue reading
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s Wir Müssen Durch Viel Trübsal Performed by Maria Keohane, Maarten Engeltjes, Benjamin Hulett, Christian Immler & Netherlands Bach Society, Directed by Jos van Veldhoven
This cantata “begins fairly cheerfully, with a mini organ concerto as a sinfonia,” explains Netherlands Bach Society. More: But immediately afterwards, the misery on earth becomes audible as the singers have difficult lines filled with obstacles. ‘Though you are sad, your sorrow will turn to joy’. These words from the sermon that was read in… Continue reading
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s Himmelfahrtsoratorium Performed by Ensemble Pygmalion, Directed by Raphaël Pichon
To accompany these Ascension Thursday reads: “Over the centuries many local customs and traditions connected to the Ascension include a contrast between Jesus and Satan,” Philip Kosloski at Aleteia reports — Jesus ascends and the devil descends on the Ascension. “The Ascension is sometimes just an Easter afterthought,” writes Adam Lucas at Crisis Magazine, “[b]ut… Continue reading
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Ludwig van Beethoven’s Die Weihe des Hauses (“The Consecration of the House”), Kyrie, Credo and Agnus Dei from Missa Solemnis in D Major & Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Performed by Chen Reiss, Sara Fulgoni, Michael Schade, Florian Boesch, WDR Rundfunkchor & Orchester Wiener Akademie, Directed by Martin Haselböck
“Listen to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its final movement, ‘Ode to Joy,’ as it was originally performed,” invites DW Classical Music. More: To commemorate the 200th anniversary of this iconic masterpiece, we are broadcasting the jubilee concert live from the historic Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany…. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is a seminal work in the history… Continue reading
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Nicolas Kedroff’s Pater Noster Sung by Jubilate Deo, Directed by Laurent Vauclin
To accompany these Philip Kosloski at Aleteia articles — Pray the Our Father with filial boldness, This prayer is the summary of the whole gospel, and Why the Our Father is the prayer of the end of the world. Continue reading
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Zaynara’s “Sou do Norte” Music Video
A girl representing her state of Pará and the Tupinambá people. Onde eu me criei Sou do Norte Viva o povo Tupinambá Minha pele é minha roupa Me criei na mata solta Quero que você veja quem eu sou Meu gosto vai além da boca Meus caminhos são os rios Vem do som, vem do… Continue reading
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Regina Coeli Performed by Emily Dickens, Rebekah Jones, Philippe Durrant, Graham Kirk, The Choir of Keble College, Oxford & Instruments of Time and Truth, Directed by Paul Brough
To accompany these Aleteia articles for the Month of Mary by Cerith Gardiner, Philip Kosloski, and John Touhey respectively — 5 Important ways to emulate the Virgin Mary this May, Honor Mary with 12 acts of virtue during the month of May, and (Photos) Meeting Mary brings health to your body and soul. Continue reading
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Behind the Scenes at Netherlands Bach Society
“What is involved when recording for All of Bach?” asks Netherlands Bach Society, explaining how the sausage is made: All of Bach is the Netherlands Bach Society’s project to record all of Bach’s works in high quality image and sound and share them with the world for free. In honour of ten years All of… Continue reading
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Phantasm Performs John Dowland’s Mrs. Nichols Almand, Lachrimæ Antiquæ, Lachrimæ Antiquæ Novæ, M. Nicholas Gryffith His Galiard, Sir John Souch His Galiard, Lachrimæ Gementes, Lachrimæ Tristes, M. Giles Hoby His Galiard, The King of Denmarks Galiard, Lachrimæ Coactae, Lachrimæ Amantis, M. Thomas Collier His Galiard with Two Trebles, M. Bucton His Galiard, The Earle of Essex Galiard, Lachrimæ Verae, Semper Dowland Semper Dolens, Captain Piper His Galiard, M. Henry Noell His Galiard, Sir Henry Umptons Funerall, M. George Whitehead His Almand & M. John Langtons Pavan
“Melancholy was such a widespread ailment in the Renaissance that it prompted extensive medical treatises that delved into its causes,” MarchVivo informs. “In music, the best example of the importance of this emotional imbalance was the instrumental collection Lachrimæ, or Seaven Teares, composed by the English lutenist John Dowland in 1604.” Continue reading
Mary Immaculate, Patroness of the United States
“[T]he Virgin still remained and remains the most intensely and the most widely and the most personally felt, of all characters, divine or human or imaginary, that ever existed among men… In no well-regulated community, under a proper system of police, could the Virgin feel at home, and the same thing may be said of most other saints as well as sinners.” — Henry Adams, self-described “conservative Christian anarchist,” a grandson and great-grandson of presidents, “with Heaven knew how many Puritans and Patriots behind him.”
Weltanschauung
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.” — G.K. Chesterton
“To see in Catholicism one religion among others, one system among others, even if it be added that it is the only true religion, the only system that works, is to mistake its very nature, or at least to stop at the threshold. Catholicism is religion itself.” — Henri-Marie Cardinal de Lubac, in Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
Like Nicolás Gómez Dávila, whom Martin Mosebach said understood “the Catholic Church, which he did not regard as simply one of several Christian confessions, but as the great collecting tank of all religions, as the heiress of all paganism, as the still living original religion.”
“The Gospel revelation alone has permitted us to succeed in reaching a coherent interpretation of myth and ritual and of human culture in its entirety…. The resurrection of Christ crowns and finishes both the subversion and the unmasking of mythology, of archaic ritual, of everything that insures the foundation and perpetuation of human cultures. The Gospels reveal everything that human beings need to understand their moral responsibility with regard to the whole spectrum of violence in human history and to all the false religions.” — René Girard in I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Politics
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)—or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate real of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could go back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so to refer to people” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“In pre-imperial America, conservatives objected to war and empire out of jealous regard for personal liberties, a balanced budget, the free enterprise system, and federalism. These concerns came together under the umbrella of the badly misunderstood America First Committee, the largest popular antiwar organization in U.S. history. The AFC was formed in 1940 to keep the United States out of a second European war that many Americans feared would be a repeat of the first. Numbering eight hundred thousand members who ranged from populist to patrician, from Main Street Republican to prairie socialist, America First embodied and acted upon George Washington’s Farewell Address counsel to pursue a foreign policy of neutrality.” ─ Bill Kauffman in Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
“Libertarian isolationism draws its adherents from both the left and the right. According to the libertarian isolationist interpretation of history, the U.S. changed from a decentralized republic into a militarized, authoritarian empire in the late 19th century, when the Spanish-American War made the U.S. a colonial power and trusts and cartels took over the economy. Every president since McKinley, they believe, has been a tool of a self-aggrandizing crony capitalist oligarchy, which exaggerated the threats of Imperial and Nazi Germany and Japan and the Soviet Union and communist China and now of Islamist terrorism in order to regiment American society and divert resources to the bloated ‘military-industrial complex.’ If the libertarian isolationists had their way, the U.S. would abandon foreign alliances, dismantle most of its military, and return to a 19th-century pattern of decentralized government and an economy based on small businesses and small farms.” ─ Michael Lind in The five worldviews that define American politics
Economics
“We need a combination of supreme moral sensitivity and economic knowledge. Economically ignorant moralism is as objectionable as morally callous economism. Ethics and economics are two equally difficult subjects, and while the former needs discerning and expert reason, the latter cannot do without humane values.” ─ Wilhelm Röpke
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