Saturday, January 03, 2015
Music For the Tenth Day Of Christmas
The Chieftains with Burgess Meredith, Don Oiche Ud I mBeithil
Choir Of Saint Paul's Cathedral, Once In Royal David's City
David Archuleta, Pat-A-Pan
Frederica von Stade & Kathleen Battle-I Wonder as I Wander, Mary Had a Baby
Still in full Christmas mode here. The calendar sorted itself out this year fir an almost ideal and unnoticeable celebration of the whole 12 days of Christmas.
Choir Of Saint Paul's Cathedral, Once In Royal David's City
David Archuleta, Pat-A-Pan
Frederica von Stade & Kathleen Battle-I Wonder as I Wander, Mary Had a Baby
Still in full Christmas mode here. The calendar sorted itself out this year fir an almost ideal and unnoticeable celebration of the whole 12 days of Christmas.
Octave Of Saint John
In pre-1962 use, each of the three feast days following Christmas had its own octave. Today is the Octave of Saint John the Evangelist.
Friday, January 02, 2015
Music For the Ninth Day Of Christmas
Celtic Woman, Away In A Manger
http://youtu.be/vftEpuxUo1E
http://youtu.be/DiXjbI3kRus
http://youtu.be/lkgY21KH-EM
The Gothard Sisters, Greensleeves/What Child Is This http://youtu.be/u0tn-VdgU_k
http://youtu.be/DiXjbI3kRus
http://youtu.be/lkgY21KH-EM
The Gothard Sisters, Greensleeves/What Child Is This http://youtu.be/u0tn-VdgU_k
Octave Of Saint Stephen
In pre-1962 use, each of the three feast days after Christmas have octaves of their own. Today is the Octave of Saint Stephen. Tomorrow is Saint John's Octave. And Sunday is the Octave of the Holy Innocents. That leads right into the Holy Name and Epiphany.
Thursday, January 01, 2015
Music For the Eighth Day Of Christmas
Celtic Woman, The Wexford Carol
Vienna Boys' Choir, Still, Still, Still
Mannheim Steamroller, Master's In This Hall
Nashville Early Music Ensemble, In Dulci Jubilo
Vienna Boys' Choir, Still, Still, Still
Mannheim Steamroller, Master's In This Hall
Nashville Early Music Ensemble, In Dulci Jubilo
Octave Of Christmas
January First has many titles in the Church, a proliferation coming after Vatican II, as the church seems unable to settle on lasting theme having diminished its previous traditional theme for the day. But traditionally it has been observed as the Feast of the Circumcision.
The Catholic Encyclopedia on this feast.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Music For the Seventh Day Of Christmas
The Clancy Brothers, The Lovely Far Off City
George Winston, The Holly and the Ivy
The Chieftains, The Holly She Bears A Berry
Jethro Tull, Bouree
George Winston, The Holly and the Ivy
The Chieftains, The Holly She Bears A Berry
Jethro Tull, Bouree
My Father's 25th Anniversary
My father, George Thomas Senior, died twenty-five years ago this morning. He had just returned from 9:30 Mass with my mother, and went around the corner to chip ice away from the door of an elderly neighbor. Moments later, there was a frantic phone call that he had collapsed. I dressed and rushed to the scene and arrived just in time to see the ambulance crew carry him in. Efforts to revive him failed.
V. Requiem aeternam, dona ei Domine.
R. Et lux perpetua luceat in ei.
V. Requiescat in pace.
R. Amen.
Deus, qui nos patrem et matrem honorare praecepisti: miserere clementer animabus patris et matris meae eorumque peccata dimitte: meque eos in aeternae claritatis gaudio fac videre. Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen.
In your charity, please pray for the repose of his soul.
V. Requiem aeternam, dona ei Domine.
R. Et lux perpetua luceat in ei.
V. Requiescat in pace.
R. Amen.
Deus, qui nos patrem et matrem honorare praecepisti: miserere clementer animabus patris et matris meae eorumque peccata dimitte: meque eos in aeternae claritatis gaudio fac videre. Per Christum Dominum nostrum.
Amen.
In your charity, please pray for the repose of his soul.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Music For the Sixth Day Of Christmas
Loreena McKennit, The Holly And the Ivy
Celtic Woman, In the Bleak Mid-Winter/The First Noel
Loreena McKennit, The Gloucestershire Wassail
The Clancy Brothers, Angels We Have Heard On High
Celtic Woman, In the Bleak Mid-Winter/The First Noel
Loreena McKennit, The Gloucestershire Wassail
The Clancy Brothers, Angels We Have Heard On High
Monday, December 29, 2014
Music For the Fifth Day Of Christmas
Christmas with a French touch for today.
Il Est Ne
Loreena McKennitt - Noël Nouvelet!
Bring A Torch Jeanette, Isabella
Pavarotti, O Holy Night
The Chieftains, The Breton Carol
Il Est Ne
Loreena McKennitt - Noël Nouvelet!
Bring A Torch Jeanette, Isabella
Pavarotti, O Holy Night
The Chieftains, The Breton Carol
Saint Thomas a Becket, Bishop & Martyr
From The Golden Legend
From Catholic On Line
Remember the especial vehemence with which English protestants attacked the cult of Saint Thomas a Becket, because Henry VIII saw it as a potential rallying point for anti-royal Catholic revolt. So celebrate this great martyred with special emphasis.
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Music For the Fourth Day Of Christmas
The Deller Consort, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
The Boar's Head Carol/Here We Come A'Wassailing
Pavarotti, from the famous 1978 concert at Notre Dame du Montreal
The Clancy Brothers, The Christ Child Lullaby
The Boar's Head Carol/Here We Come A'Wassailing
Pavarotti, from the famous 1978 concert at Notre Dame du Montreal
The Clancy Brothers, The Christ Child Lullaby
The Slaughter Of the Holy Innocents
The Coventry Carol
1. Lullay, Thou little tiny Child,
By, by, lully, lullay.
Lullay, Thou little tiny Child.
By, by, lully, lullay.
2. O sisters, too, how may we do,
For to preserve this day;
This poor Youngling for whom we sing,
By, by, lully, lullay.
3. Herod the King, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day;
His men of might, in his own sight,
All children young, to slay.
4. Then woe is me, poor Child, for Thee,
And ever mourn and say;
For Thy parting, nor say nor sing,
By, by, lully, lullay.
In Herod's time, a slaughter of holy innocent babes was an outstanding once-in-a-lifetime event. For us, the murderous sin of abortion has made the slaughter of holy innocents a daily, constant massacre. So desensitized to the slaughter of our babies are we now that a gunman two weeks ago thought nothing of brutally gunning down classrooms full of kindergarterners and First Graders.
God help us!
