Saturday, January 04, 2020
Music For the Eleventh Day Of Christmas
Maureen Hegarty, O Holy Night
Anne Murray, Joy to the World
Monteverdi Choir, Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming
Maureen Hegarty, Ave Maria (Shubert)
Anne Murray, Joy to the World
Monteverdi Choir, Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming
Maureen Hegarty, Ave Maria (Shubert)
Octave Of the Holy Innocents
In pre-1962 use, each of the three feast days following Christmas had its own octave. Today is the octave of the Holy Innocents. Tomorrow is Twelfth Night, the vigil of Epiphany.
Friday, January 03, 2020
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 for 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 for an almost ideal and unnoticeable celebration of the whole 12 days of Christmas.
Octave Day Of Saint John the Evangelist
The Tenth Day of Christmas
Thursday, January 02, 2020
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
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The Gothard Sisters, Greensleeves/What Child Is This http://youtu.be/u0tn-VdgU_k
The Octave Day of Saint Stephen the Proto-Martyr
The Ninth Day of Christmas
Wednesday, January 01, 2020
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
The Octave Day 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.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
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 Thirtieth Anniversary
My father, George Thomas, Senior, died twenty-nine 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.
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.
Monday, December 30, 2019
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
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Ssint 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.
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
