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Beautiful song to remind us why we are Christian

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,426 ✭✭✭maestroamado


    Quite a lot of Catholics i know are certainly not Christians.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Quite a lot of Catholics i know are certainly not Christians.

    :confused: ...is there a song in ^ there somewhere, cos... :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    even though it's not Christmas...



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit




    A song dedicated to St Louis IX, a selfless ruler who brought prosperity to his land, while taking care to suppress usury, blasphemy, prostitution and threats to the Faith. He fed beggars from his table, ate what they left behind, washed their feet, and took care of lepers. When taken prisoner while crusading in Egypt, he took care to recite the breviary every day. One notable monument is the the exquisite Sainte-Chapelle, built to house the Crown of Thorns, close to the now ruinous Notre Dame. The Latin Emperor Baldwin had pawned it to a Venetian merchant and Louis redeemed it. Louis took seriously his title of Rex Christianissimus.

    St Louis is quite topical as BLM rioters made efforts to vandalise his statue in St Louis, Missouri. Catholics and their priest Fr Stephen Shumacher managed to keep the statue safe. That priest was far better than than cowards like Bp Barron who said its the job of the laity to protect statues, while saying next to nothing, who is more concerned with making bank from his 'World on Fire' bible and going to the gym.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,659 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Byzantine chant: Lament for Constantinople: Ο Θεός ήλθοσαν έθνη/ O Lord the heathen are come



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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,659 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach



    William Byrd: Miserere mei | The Marian Consort | Singing in Secret


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo




  • Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭Smegging hell




  • Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭Smegging hell




  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    ^^^


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Slightly on topic, anyone going to see Rend Collective in October?


  • Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭indy_man




  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    indy_man wrote: »


    You have to take out the https://youtu.be/ bit if you want it to work. Either that, or put the full length youtube link.


  • Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭indy_man




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit




    Cristobal de Morales. Psalm 17. 5-7 where David thanks God for delivery from his enemies. 'The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents in iniquity troubled me.'

    'Circumdederunt me dolores mortis,' was I think was sung in the cathedrals throughout the lands of Charles V from Mexico City to Antwerp and Naples when Emperor Charles V breathed his last.

    A Spanish composer active in New Spain and the Captaincy General of Guatemala composed using the same text:



    It is interesting seeing how different composers deal with the same texts.



    Hernando Franco, not the Spanish or Mexican composer, but rather a Mexica or Aztec of that name who composed a baroque piece in his native Náhuatl.

    Celestial Queen,
    Mother of God,
    our advocate,
    pray for us.

    O lady, beloved mother of God,
    always virgin,
    intercede for us
    with thy beloved Son, Jesus Christ,
    thou most beloved of the most high.


  • Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭indy_man




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit




    Psalm 136: Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion

    Orthodox chant

    It shows also the ravages upon Russia by the socialist hordes of Lenin and Trotsky.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    indy_man wrote: »
    Indy_man, the "short" youtu.be links don't work, you only add the very last bit with the letters and numbers, or the full length link. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    Judgement:



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Came across this a few weeks ago, and I found it so uplifting.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit




    Regina Caeli, Hernando Franco, a Spanish composer who was active in Nueva España, or to be more specific to him, Mexico and Guatemala, for New Spain at one point was nearly all Central America, Mexico and most of North America.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    Yesterday in places it was the Feast of the apparition of the Archangel Michael on Mt Gargano.

    Below is the Vesper hymn for that Feast, as arranged by Palestrina, which later was to be drastically revised by Urban VIII:



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    There are several renditions of this hymn. This one feels so real...



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭growleaves




  • Registered Users Posts: 13,412 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    lovely choir rendition


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    A short hymn to Pope St Pius X, relevant on the occasion of what seems like an attempt by Francis at destroying the Mass of All Time.



  • Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭the_eman




  • Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭indy_man




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit




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    I'm sure there are a thousand versions of this in more traditional hues but the song itself always strikes a chord in me. I remember first hearing it and discovering more about Charlotte Elliot who wrote it and the life she lived and how affected she was by her circumstances which led her to pen the words. It came as no surprise to learn that she was also related to Virginia Woolf and there's a strength of character there which sort of imbues both their voices with similar qualities borne out of their individual struggles.


    "The night before the bazaar she was kept wakeful by distressing thoughts of her apparent uselessness; and these thoughts passed by a transition easy to imagine into a spiritual conflict, till she questioned the reality of her whole spiritual life, and wondered whether it were anything better after all than an illusion of the emotions, an illusion ready to be sorrowfully dispelled. The next day, the busy day of the bazaar, she lay upon her sofa in that most pleasant boudoir set apart for her in Westfield Lodge, ever a dear resort to her friends." The troubles of the night came back upon her with such force that she felt they must be met and conquered in the grace of God. She gathered up in her soul the great certainties, not of her emotions, but of her salvation: her Lord, His power, His promise. And taking pen and paper from the table she deliberately set down in writing, for her own comfort, "the formulae of her faith." Hers was a heart which always tended to express its depths in verse. So in verse she restated to herself the Gospel of pardon, peace, and heaven. "Probably without difficulty or long pause" she wrote the hymn, getting comfort by thus definitely "recollecting" the eternity of the Rock beneath her feet. There, then, always, not only for some past moment, but " even now " she was accepted in the Beloved "Just as I am".



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