Evil continues.... Apartheid in Switzerland!
The Roman Catholic Church is preaching and actively working for cultural and racial inclusivity in Her Sacred Liturgy by means of fostering community among ALL peoples on the earth. YET, we have on the one hand, the Americans with their consumerism and 'heresy of individualism' and on the other hand, Europe with Her alarmist 'knee-jerk' reaction to human diversity, evinced in Apartheid Laws being passed in Switzerland. I anxiously await Pope Francis' official statement on this. Will the European Bishops be united in this? In fact, will the RC Bishops of Christendom unite against this new evil? Will that which is preached, now be put into PRACTICE....??? Sigh, we shall see......
Iervsalem convertere ad Dominvm Devm tvvm!!
Palestrina - Lamentations, Holy Saturday.
The Lord Descends Into Hell (from an ancient homily on Holy Saturday)
Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.
He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, he has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, he who is both God and the son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the cross, the weapon that had won him the victory. At the sight of him, Adam, the first man he had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone: “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him: “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying: “…More
The single Candle: The Saviour is now among the dead; He goes on His salvific mission unto the underworld, freeing ALL peoples past, present and future, from Original Sin.
O Felix cvlpa qvae talem et tantvm mervit habere Redemptorem!!
Happy Birthday Herr Johann Bach.
Mein Herr Johann Sebastian Bach, weil ein Geschenk Gottes von sich selbst zu dieser Erde, sind wir in Ehrfurcht vor seine Herrlichkeit verlassen; eine Ehre sei kundgetan durch Ihre Musik.
Mein Herr Johann Sebastian Bach, weil ein Geschenk Gottes von sich selbst zu dieser Erde, sind wir in Ehrfurcht vor seine Herrlichkeit verlassen; eine Ehre sei kundgetan durch Ihre Musik.
St Paul's London - C of E.
Today, this glorious masterpiece of Sir Christopher Wrenn, was closed by the Dean and Chapter. The trouble is money to keep St Paul's open.
Thanks, ACL!
Today, 21st October, 2011, an unprecedented thing has happened. St Paul's cathedral was closed by the Dean and Chapter. Even though this is a Church of England stronghold, one cannot help be saddened that Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece would no longer be open to the public; the glory of the British Empire - and all that!
May the "occupy London' movement which caused this glorious monument to close, be suitable removed soon!
Our Father.
Andrea Bocceli sings the "Our Father".
@soundingjoy - Thanks! Always a pleasure to share the best of the music world....
Capadocia & St Paul.
Man set ablaze with love for Jesus. A testament in stone to the power of the Holy Spirit in St Paul; fire which spead wild in the hearts of our ancestors in the Early Church.
@tbswv - Note the scientific disciplines that went into unmasking this early form of Christianity. How much more are we encouraged and set ablaze with love for the Lord and our Church....
This presentation makes me proud to be a member of the one true church, founded by our Lord, and propagated throughout a pagan empire by Peter and Paul. With all the confusion, relativism, modernism, apostacy, and heresy in the church today, we who are orthodox have gone "underground" like the early Christians. I pray that Peter and Paul will once again restore our true Church.