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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Johannes Vermeer, RIP, December 15, 1675

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Believe it or not, there is a connection between the death of Johannes Vermeer and the English Reformation, the topic of this blog! The conn...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

William Oddie on the Ordinariate Liturgy

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William Oddie was once an Anglican and he recently attended a Mass at an Ordinariate church and then wrote about it in The Catholic Herald :...
Friday, December 13, 2013

The Wise Virgins and the Advent of the Bridegroom

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The Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids; Matthew, chapter 25 “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps a...

An Advent Hymnn for Christ's Second Coming: The Dies Irae

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If we think of the Dies Irae , The Day of Wrath, we think of it as the sequence in the Catholic Requiem Mass according to the Extraordi...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Christmas Carols on the BBC

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The BBC (Radio 4) is broadcasting a series on Christmas Carols: The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when carolers celebrated ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

December 10, 1591: Executions on Gray's Inn Road and at Tyburn

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St. Swithun Wells was hanged for NOT attending a Catholic Mass in Elizabethan England. His wife Alice attended the Mass held in his house n...
Monday, December 9, 2013

Recreating Howard/Tudor Tombs in Norfolk

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Again, from The Daily Mail , comes this story about the tombs built for Thomas Howard and his son-in-law, Henry Fitzroy, the Duke of Richmon...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

The Sound of Music: The Original Version?

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You might have watched the live production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's stage version on NBC on Thursday, December 5--and that was ...

Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet at The Cloisters

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Closing tomorrow at the Metropolitan Museum/Cloisters in New York City: The Forty Part Motet (2001), a sound installation by Janet ...
Friday, December 6, 2013

An Advent Hymn: Creator of the Stars of Night

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A Clerk of Oxford features this hymn in this blog post , which features different translations from the Middle Ages. The modern translatio...