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History and Spirituality of Gregorian Chant

History and Spirituality of Gregorian Chant

Conductor Kurt Pahlen, a famous Austrian musicologist and composer, was once asked how he would define music. The maestro confessed that the question surprised him, but in order not to leave it unanswered, he said: “To the prosaic, Music is an acoustic phenomenon; to the professionals, it is a technical …
Dcn. Alejandro de Saint Amant, EP - 31, July 2023

The Bayeux Tapestry - A Monument Constructed with the Delicacy of a Needle!

The Bayeux Tapestry - A Monument Constructed with the Delicacy of a Needle!

It is well known that potentates of all ages have gone to great lengths to build impressive monuments, eager to leave an everlasting memory of their deeds to posterity. To this end they mobilized massive human resources and dipped deeply into their coffers, until completing a new colossus capable of …
Sr. Carmela Werner - 31, July 2023

Frescos by Giotto di Bondone in the Scrovegni Chapel - Works Imbued with Divine Grace

Frescos by Giotto di Bondone in the Scrovegni Chapel - Works Imbued with Divine Grace

Perhaps nothing attracts the human senses as much as standing on the seashore, watching the movement of the water. The elegant undulations of the waves seem to express various wonders: when small, smiling gracefully, they manifest lightness; when imposing, they surge with a majesty that appears to challenge the very …
Sr. Luciana Niday - 31, July 2023

Augustus Pugin and the Gothic Revival - God’s Architect

Augustus Pugin and the Gothic Revival - God’s Architect

If, instead of publishing a book, that “lunatic” architect had thrown a bomb at Windsor Castle, the impact could hardly have been of a greater magnitude than that caused by this work… The fact he had left Anglicanism to embrace the Catholic Faith was already a great scandal in nineteenth …
Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - 31, July 2023

Brief Biography of St. Thomas Aquinas - The Angelic Itinerary of a Man

Brief Biography of St. Thomas Aquinas - The Angelic Itinerary of a Man

Thomas was born in Aquino at the end of 1224 or the beginning of the following year into one of the most illustrious families of the Kingdom of Sicily. His relatives included the Emperor Redbeard, his uncle, and Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire, his cousin. Hoping to see …
Rodrigo Siqueira Pinto Ferreira - 30, June 2023

The Highest Title of Glory

The Highest Title of Glory

When the young aspirant Thomas Aquinas pronounced his principium – inaugural class – in the troubled days of 1256, no one could have suspected they were standing before the one whom future centuries would call “Doctor of Doctors”, “Prince of Theologians”, “Tabernacle of the science and wisdom of God.”1 Indeed, …
Sr. Maria Angélica Iamasaki - 30, June 2023

A theology adopted by the Catholic Church - Go to Thomas!

A theology adopted by the Catholic Church - Go to Thomas!

Catholics today often lack elementary notions about their religion. Some do not even know why they belong to it. They do not realize that their Church is a divine institution, founded more than two thousand years ago by the Incarnate Word, and that it is accompanied by a promise of …
Eduardo José Matos - 30, June 2023

Thomas of Aquino, the Saint - Humility, Prudence and Piety

Thomas of Aquino, the Saint - Humility, Prudence and Piety

Historians lacking in religious sense often create a unilateral vision of illustrious persons whose central priority was living a life devoted to God. Such biographers fail, no doubt, by appreciating only one or another quality of the figures they portray, forgetting the basic philosophical principle that “the whole is greater …
Fábio Henrique Costa - 30, June 2023

Contemplation according to St. Thomas Aquinas - To Contemplate is to Know and Love!

Contemplation according to St. Thomas Aquinas - To Contemplate is to Know and Love!

To consider, to appreciate, to observe attentively, to transcend from the physical to the immaterial, to rise from the natural to the supernatural… what exactly is contemplation? To answer this question, we could define contemplation as the act of reflecting on something in search of its deepest meaning. Is that …
Sr. Ana Rafaela Maragno - 30, June 2023

The Canticle of the Threefold Secret

The Canticle of the Threefold Secret

In a certain period of childhood, numerous questions emerge in a child’s mind, questions that show the desire to investigate and understand the surrounding world: it is the famous age of the “whys”… The youngster begins to navigate the mysterious seas of knowledge, and with each “discovery” feels the joy …
Sr. Giovana Wolf - 30, June 2023

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