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Requiem in D Minor, K 626: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 01:00​ - Introitus 05:56​ - Kyrie 08:19​ - Dies irae 10:17​ - Tuba mirum 14:05​ - Rex tremendae 16:01​ - Recordare 21:20​ - Confutatis 23:56​ - Lacrimosa 27:48​ - Domine Jesu Christe 31:10​ - Hostias 34:50​ - Sanctus 36:36​ - Benedictus 42:12​ - Agnus Dei 6:21​ - Lux aeterna

Bob was a Navy Corpsman who'd served a tour of Vietnam. He'd also worked in Saudi and once met Sadaam Hussein at one of his palaces. My daughter told me this news this am. Bob was her coworker. We'd all just had dinner at the Pita House in Greenville SC near Christmas. Bob was a happy man who's good humor passed onto all he met. Please pray for his soul. So Sad....

Perhaps as a concluding post on funeral masses, this is my third post on the subject this week (omni trinum perfectum – all things are perfect in three), I would like to re-post an article I wrote over a year ago.Many of the comments these past days mentioned the Traditional Latin Requiem Mass, which I have been privileged to celebrate many times in my 25 years. It is a beautiful and gentle liturgy, so consoling and yet also sober and mindful that someone has died and that we ought to pray.And while I do not say that everyone must like...

If you go to Rome, you can visit the Piccolo Museo del Purgatorio. Google it and look at some more of the very interesting pictures. People have come back from purgatory to burn their hand prints into prayer books, and clothing. Talk about proof of the fire of purgatory. Yet most people do nothing for the souls of our loved ones suffering there. So today we had a Holy Latin Requiem Mass for All Souls.

Requiem Malcolm A. Kline, January 28, 2010 Quiz question Who said this? “I think people are dazzled by Obama’s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president—which means, in our time, a dangerous president—unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.” The answer: ...

Gustavo Dudamel is back in town, and Thursday night he conducted a magnificently theatrical performance of Verdi’s Requiem that felt like his first real concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. All Los Angeles, of course, knows that last month Dudamel began his tenure with a free event at the Hollywood Bowl, and that was followed by nervous-making high-profile programs in Walt Disney Concert Hall the next week.

Msgr. Moises Andrade loved the Traditional Latin Mass. Even the Philippines' most-watched evening news show, in reporting his passing, mentioned that he was an expert in the "Latin Mass" and opined that his death was a great loss for the Catholic Church in the Philippines. (The fact that his death was reported on national television was a testament to his stature.) How fitting, then, that a Requiem Mass according to the 1962 Missal had been scheduled for the evening of February 23, in the National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, the parish that he had last served. Except that,...

Requiem for a RepublicMichael Reagan Posted: 02/17/2009 03:01:43 AM EST It is not true that grown men don't cry. I'm grown and I'm on the verge of tears. A Republic I have loved all my life is being is being murdered and the crime is an inside job. If you hear a whirring sound in the background, it is my dad Ronald Reagan, who loved and served this nation, spinning in his grave as his latest successor plunges a carving knife into America's vital organs. In his wildest dreams Ronald Reagan never thought that a president of a United States,...

A family member in has died, as she had wished, at home in Faribault, MN. MaryAnn fought a long, brave fight with cancer which finally took her today. I know it would mean so much to her husband, Lloyd, that others were praying for her. She loved baseball and the Twins. Lord, receive MaryAnn's soul this day, where she might see every game and know every team won, and that the true and eternal win of being with You is now hers. Thank you so much. God Bless You, All.

Mark Steyn: Requiem for the Counterculture - Given the choice between reality and dopey naiveté, our cultural elite remains fatally true to its 'trusting nature' Mark Steyn - February 12, 2007 Given the way the Canadian media write about, say, Alberta's oilpatch as if they're on an anthropological expedition to a remote corner of Papua, it's always interesting to note the things they don't feel the need to explain. Earlier this month, the Globe and Mail ran a front-page lead headlined "Attraction To New Orleans Turns Tragic For Canadians." This was the story of Paul Gailiunas, raised in Edmonton, and...

This requiem was a follow up to last years version of the Mozart Requiem, which the Festival performed in memory of 9-11. With the fifth year anniversary today, the festival chose the Brahms Requiem to share with our community to commemorate the slaughter that took place on 9-11. The festival president said these great works were written for those who were sorrowful after the death of loved ones. I suppose as Americans we all feel sadness and grief remembering that terrible day. I will always remember what I was doing on that day.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A one-legged piano and a chorus was all Jewish prisoners at the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia needed to express their defiance of the Nazis. Sixty-three years ago, Jewish prisoner and conductor Rafael Schachter gathered 150 fellow Jews in a basement at the camp to perform Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem" for the Nazis in Latin. Throughout the piece was a plea for liberation. The prisoners felt safe singing it because the Nazis did not get the meaning the Jewish people put behind it, said Natalie Pyle, a music student who will be a junior at The Catholic University...

"William Rehnquist is the judicial godfather of the Bush administration and today's Republican right."- Bruce Shapiro, The Nation IF RICHARD NIXON, who appointed William Rehnquist to the Supreme Court, or Ronald Reagan, who elevated him to chief justice, were alive today, they'd have to congratulate themselves on a job well done. David Souter and Anthony Kennedy have listed leftward - dramatically so at times. Sandra Day O'Connor, for whom the right had even higher hopes when she joined the court 24 years ago, was all over the board ideologically. Earl Warren, Harry Blackmun, William Brennan and John Paul Stevens also...

Requiem for the Left: They're All Stalinists (and Hypocrites) NowBy Barry LoberfeldFrontPageMagazine.com | August 5, 2005 Primo: The Cerberean Conception Since it's almost become a cliché to observe that Marxism is dead in practice – that is, if you overlook its authoritarian half-life in China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam – but thriving in theory, we can at least ask exactly what that theory is, a question that returns three very different answers: Some should get all of the pie. This is classic manual-labor theory of value Marx: Since the manual laborers produce all wealth, anyone else who has any wealth...

Pyongyang (AsiaNews/Agencies) - A memorial Mass for Pope John Paul II attended by about 100 people has been held in the only Catholic Church in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang. South Korean television aired footage of the Mass after being given the green light by the North Korean government. "When I first heard about the Pope passing away I was very surprised, although of course I knew already that he had been sick" said Kim Yong-il, a church official at the Chang Chung Church in Pyongyang. The state media waited until 5 April before finally announcing the death of the pontiff,...

It's taken me a week to think of it, but, on the occasion of the Pope's death, I think I'll translate a few hymns from the Office of the Dead. This one comes from Solesmes' Liber Hymnarius. If you're looking for Dies Iræ, look elsewhere; there are abundant translations on the internet. By the way, does anyone know if they sang Dies Iræ at the pope's funeral?I'll note in passing that the Italian daily Corriere della Sera is reporting that the Vatican is collecting evidence of the pope's sanctity; apparently a number of miracles had already been reported during...

Shrine to Judas in the town of Linz, Austria From the town that brought to the world Adolf Hitler now comes in the Ursuline Church an art installation for Lent, "Requiem for a friend Judas Iskarioth" ( Iscariot ). Many pictures and more text are given at the website. The text accompanying the exhibition says that Judas should be made a saint and that he did not commit suicide but was done away with by the other apostles. It claims that the installation shows Judas with a halo. He is the intercessor for all suicides, for all those excluded, excommunicated,...

Return to Main Page   In the Gullet of a Wolf   I know that after my departure fierce wolves will get in among you, and will not spare the flock. Acts 20; 29   Two Catholics died in January of this year. One I’d been acquainted with for some time; the other I’d never met. Both had three things in common: 1) They kept the Faith and served the Church throughout their lives, 2) They gave to the Church, besides decades’ worth of tithing, a good number of children and 3) On their deathbeds, both were shown less...

Devoted: Nancy Reagan is comforted by the Rev Michael Wenning at the casket of former President Ronald Reagan before the public viewing period begins in Los Angeles. Picture: AP IT was a touching public display of affection that began the long goodbye to a love affair spanning half a century. A frail Nancy Reagan, 82, touched the coffin of her beloved husband, former US president Ronald Reagan, 93, during a televised family service before pressing her cheek against the casket, her eyes wet with grief. As Mrs Reagan stood back from the casket, she whispered to the family parish...

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