When asked what the Church has done for music, Riccardo Muti explains that "the Church has made an enormous contribution to musical literature for centuries" and, moreover, "all great musicians have composed sacred music." He added that there has always been a close connection between music and Christianity, so much so that "Christian martyrs went to their death singing" and Saint Augustine himself said that "'cantare amantis est': making music is proper to those who love, those who know how to love, those who believe in love." Muti's answer could be completed by recalling that the Romans and Greeks played monophonic music: a single musical line played by all instruments or voices. It was ecclesiastical composers in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, such as those of the School of Notre Dame de Paris, who invented polyphony, the simultaneous playing of two or more musical lines. This was an absolute revolution that gave birth to harmony. Also in the Middle Ages, instruments that needed …More
The French Revolution came back wearing a new outfit: Marxism-Leninism. This time it was unleashed to desolate not only the European Continent but the whole world. The tools of Communism 2.0 are the same: the brotherhood of man, the new man, social justice, liberation from economic oppression, etc. but those are only the disguises for something more sinister.
Stay awake, be ready Liturgy of Sunday November 30 - first of Advent Dear brothers and sisters, the powerful words used by Jesus in the passage from the Gospel of Matthew we’re going to listen to next Sunday, November 30, first of Advent, should not frighten us, but, on the contrary, fill us with joy. Let's try to figure out why. How often, faced with the injustices that plague the world, our hearts are torn by the question: Why would a good God allow so much suffering, especially innocent suffering? Why He doesn't intervene? Well, the answer to this question is, in its apparently incomprehensibility, extraordinary: God is working on a new creation!! Jesus' warning to stay awake is an invitation not to be afraid by the "night" of evil that makes life on earth "gloomy", but to overcome it with the light of God's Love because it's just from that night that God is going to make the dawn of the new creation arise…
Trump blaming democrats for national guards shot by a 29 yr old afgan immigrant who came to the U.S. under a Trump's program on his first administration for Afgans who helped American soldiers in Afganistan. He stops using the incident as a political weapon after investigations release the facts of how and when the person enter the U.S., now Trump changed the topic, first he uses it to attack the democrat party then after facts come out he stops talking about the incident, he does not even show sympathy towards the guards shot.
Today, Pope Leo XIV prayed with Orthodox and other schismatic Christians in Nicaea, reciting the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed in English. The Filioque clause was omitted. They prayed that the Holy Spirit "proceeds from the Father".
Commemorating the 1700th Anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea in the place where it occurred, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV and His All Holiness Bartholomew of Constantinople, lead Christian leaders in reciting the Nicene Creed in English, omitting the Filioque clause.
Today, at the site of ancient Nicaea, Pope Leo XIV joined around 27 other leaders of Christian communities to commemorate the 1700 anniversary of the first Council. Leo XIV thanked the Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, for his "great wisdom and foresight" in calling for Church leaders to celebrate this important anniversary together. However, Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow was not invited to the ecumenical prayer. Cardinal Kurt Koch told CruxNow.com ahead of the liturgy: "The Catholics have invited Catholics and the Orthodox invite Orthodox". He added that he respects the "decision of the Orthodox" not to invite the world’s largest Orthodox group. Picture: VaticanNews.va, #newsYaitxdonvz
Koch is spewing more Vatican Non-sense and Bull-Hash. Greek Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem did not attend the Nicene conference in Turkey this week . He did not respond to the invitation from Patriarch Bartholomew, and it was reported that he did not attend, despite having been invited. It was reported that Pope Twardos did not choose to attend Ethiopian Abune Mathias was hand delivered an invitation from Pope Leo by a Bishop, it was also reported that he did not attend. Patriarch Daniel of Bulgaria did not attend. What about his Beatitude Tikhon, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada - did he attend? Did anyone see Patriarch Daniel of Romania? nope - he wears all white, easy to spot.
Holy Presence of our Lord and an age old devotion to the Theotokos are nothing compared to NATO, the EU, and the non-constitutional Anglo-American Zionist genocidal financial order I guess.
D’une même voix, les représentants des Églises chrétiennes professent le Symbole de Nicée là où il a été institué il y a 1700 ans. L’intégralité de la rencontre œcuménique de prière sur KTO & ktotv.com
Pope Leo XIV spent last night at the Apostolic Nunciature in Istanbul, where he celebrated the Eucharist ad orientem in the chapel this morning, as Vatican News reported with a photo.
Pope Leo XIV celebrates private Mass ad orientem in the chapel of the Apostolic Delegation in Istanbul
Quote: "I believe Pope Francis’ Traditionis Custodes was inspired by the Holy Spirit." Now one sees why the modernists HAD to seize the papacy to get the remaining faithful in line!
Pope Leo XIV to Meet Istanbul’s Multilingual, Immigrant Catholic Community | Apostolic Journey 2025 As Pope Leo XIV’s Apostolic Journey to Turkey continues, a sense of excitement stirs within the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Istanbul. On November 28, the city’s immigrant Catholic community will gather to welcome him, their anticipation filling the Baroque arches with hope. The cathedral, the heart of Catholicism in Istanbul, celebrates Mass in English, French, and Turkish, echoing the many stories and backgrounds of its parishioners. Here, immigrants, refugees, and converts, some of whom escaped lands where faith must be hidden, find not just a church, but a sanctuary. Though small in number, Istanbul’s Catholics form a tapestry woven from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, united each week in prayer and resilience. Converts from countries like Iran, where changing faith can be perilous, find new beginnings in Istanbul, supported by the Church and humanitarian …More
Richard @ricwe123 Remember that moment when Victoria Nuland in 2016, was openly bragging to Congress about how the US practically colonized Ukraine after the 2014 coup? She didn’t even try to sugarcoat it: 12 US advisors shoved into Ukrainian ministries, American-trained cops in 18 cities, the US Treasury obliterating 60 banks while sparing depositors, and $266 million poured into training Ukrainian troops. And somehow we’re still supposed to swallow the nonsense that this war was "unprovoked"
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Christian Holden was turned away from St Cuthbert’s Cave because of what the Trust called his ‘religious affiliation’. Wikimedia Commons. Phil Thirkell, CC-BY-SA-2.0 The National Trust has found itself at the centre of discrimination claims after refusing to let a Catholic filmmaker shoot at a historic religious site in Northumberland. Christian Holden, who specialises in documentaries with Christian themes, was turned away from St Cuthbert’s Cave because of what the Trust called his “religious affiliation”. The 51-year-old filmmaker from Tenby, Pembrokeshire, had requested permission to film at the cave, where St Cuthbert’s body is believed to have been hidden from Viking raids in the 9th century. But Trust officials said no, sparking accusations from Voice for Justice UK that the heritage charity has breached equality laws. The Christian human rights group argues that blocking someone from filming based on their faith amounts to illegal discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. …