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AS A STUDENT OF MUSIC, I was frequently plagued with a sense of anxiety that the work I had set about was a disposable “extra” or nicety. It seemed to me that, while society would be crippled without farmers, physicians, construction workers, or engineers, there would...
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Glubb Pasha wrote this in his old age. He was born in the late Victorian era and lived to see the British Empire collapse. He considered well what was right in front of his very eyes, instead of indulging in fashionable mandatory pretending. Today broad historical...
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President Donald Trump posted the Saint Michael the Archangel prayer on social media Sunday night along with a painting by 17th century artist Guido Reni. The Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel on September 29. Pope Leo XIII composed the...
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Sacred music is “integral” to the Catholic Church’s liturgy, Bishop Alexander K. Sample said in a Feb. 13 pastoral letter to the people of the Diocese of Marquette. “In any discussion of the…’art of celebrating’ as it relates...
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Since the close of the Second Vatican Council, church music has been at the center of a lot of controversy. In many places liturgy has become mere entertainment or an emotional pep rally. Music has become the very center of a crisis which has profoundly affected the...
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Ordinarily, do untrained and unprepared people “rise to the occasion” when faced with enormous challenges? In great fiction, they often do. In real life? Well, that’s another story. People who work in fields where error can result in death (e.g., soldiers, law...
