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Monday, 28 December 2009
Merry Christmas!
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Perhaps it's a little late, but Christmas doesn't end on the 25th, you know. In the true medieval spirit of festival and octave, thi...
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Advent, 13: Gaudete
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As a lamentable result of the double darkness into which most Catholic musicians have been born - fear of Latin, and ignorance of the Proper...
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Advent, 8: The Immaculate Conception
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Of one that is so fair and bright Velut maris stella, Brighter than the day is light, Parens et puella: I cry to thee, thou see to me; Lady,...
Monday, 7 December 2009
Advent, 7
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On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry announces that the Lord is nigh; awake and hearken, for he brings glad tidings of the King of kin...
Sunday, 6 December 2009
Advent, 6
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Dwell in our hearts, O Savior blest; so shall thine advent's dawn 'twixt us and thee, our bosom-guest, be but the veil withdrawn.
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Advent, 5
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Of a rose, a lovely rose Of a rose is all my song. Listeneth, lordings, both elde and yinge, How this rose began to springe; Such a rose to ...
Friday, 4 December 2009
Advent, 4: The flower
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There is a flower sprung of a tree The root therof is called Jesse; A flower of price, There is none such in Paradise. This flower is fair a...
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