A Playlist for the Triduum: Good Friday

View the Holy Thursday playlist here. As we continue our journey with Christ in His passion, let us pray. Father, I Put My Life In Your Hands (Psalm 31), John Michael Talbot Stabat Mater, Giovanni Felice Sances, sung by Nuria Rial with L’Arpeggiata From Bach’s St....

A Playlist for the Triduum: Holy Thursday

This is a strange time to be alive, and a strange time in which to worship. As Christians everywhere prepare to enter Holy Week, we do so in unprecedented ways, with liturgies streamed via television and internet, gathered as the Body of Christ but separated from the...

An Artist’s Advent

Wait. Prepare. The fulfillment is coming. Wait. Prepare. Every year, I begin teaching my church choir a new anthem for Christmas in August. To prepare for Christmas is not the work of four weeks, but more than four months. To prepare to begin preparing takes even...

Mining the Public Domain

As you may have heard, because of a 1998 revision to U.S. copyright law, January 1, 2019 marked the first time in more than 20 years that any copyrighted work entered the public domain. And while we all rush to download legal copies of works by Robert Frost and Edith...

Reading Without Pictures

For the past eight years, my husband and I have been enveloped in the world of communication disorders because both of our children have difficulty comprehending language. However, it is only in recent weeks that a particular symptom was brought to the forefront as a...