The other day, “Curt Jester” Jeff Miller read Taylor Marshall’s account of how Saint Nicholas of Myra confronted the heretic Arius at the Council of Nicaea (and rearranged his dental work). Well, Jeff wished that there were a Christmas song about the event, so I obliged him:
I saw Santa punching Arius,
in Nicaea where the council met last night;
the bishops were aghast, and the bruise is gonna last:
he seized him with his left hand and then slapped him with the right;
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Fr. David Barnes, the fine pastor of St. Mary Star of the Sea Church in Beverly, MA, has launched a blog under the title A Shepherd’s Post, and I recommend it to you. I sang in his parish choir for the past few years, and appreciated his preaching and his encouragement of sacred music in the parish. Fr. Barnes is an active participant in the movement “Communion and Liberation” and serves as a spiritual director for seminarians at St. John Seminary in Boston.
Welcome to the
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It’s the last day of the Church year, so it’s the perfect time to sing the Te Deum laudamus.
Here’s a recording of the Schola Cantorum of Milan. It comes with a display of the Gregorian score as found in the Graduale Romanum book (simple tone), so you can sing along:
But why stop there? Here’s an enormous force presenting the setting by Berlioz:
And the bold 1936 setting by Zoltan Kodály, written to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the liberation
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For those not familiar with Fr. John Anthony Hardon, SJ, he was a wonderful teacher of the faith who lived in Detroit. He trained catechists and wrote an adult catechism
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