Category: Art & Architecture

Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey’d Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack’d anything.
“A guest,” I answer’d, “worthy to be here”;
Love said, “You shall be he.”
“I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.”
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
“Who made the eyes but I?”
“Truth, Lord, but I have marr’d them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.”
“And know you not,” says Love, “who bore the blame?”
“My dear, then I will serve.”
“You must sit down,” says Love, “and taste my meat.”
So I did sit and eat.
-George Herbert

Cardinal Pell
Steven Greydanus
[I’ll add more later.]
Oh: my reaction? It’s a sobering, purifying experience that left the audience and me in silence. I went home and read the Stabat Mater.

If you missed the “Making Of” special on Pax TV Sunday, you’ll have another opportunity Tuesday night. My jaw’s already dropping at this movie and its lingering, meditative manner.

The Washington Capella Antiqua will be performing solemn sung Vespers on the eve of the patronal feast of St. Michael and all Angels, to include Dufay’s Ave, regina caelorum and some Cistercian chant, among others.
The service will be held this Sunday, 28 September, at 5:00 PM at St. Michael’s Church, 805 Wayne Ave., Silver Spring, MD, three blocks from the Red Line’s Silver Spring station.

This Sunday, St. Matthew Cathedral in Washington celebrates the completion of restoration work with a rededication Mass. The results are, a friend says, “stunning”.