Colligite Fragmenta: 9th Sunday after Pentecost — By: OnePeterFive

The treasury of Holy Church’s sacred worship truly overflows with inexhaustible wealth, as the 20th-century commentator Pius Parsch reflects in The Church’s Year of Grace, dividing the Sundays after Pentecost into three stages: first, those that highlight the Lord’s miraculous healings pointing ultimately to the salvation of souls; second, from the 7th to the 14th…

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A musical counterpart to Solzhenitsyn — By: OnePeterFive

Fifty years ago, on August 9, 1975, Dmitri Shostakovich, the celebrated Russian composer and pianist, passed away in Moscow. A figure of immense complexity, he “managed to navigate a difficult situation with great prudence and political astuteness.”[1] Born on September 25, 1906, in Saint Petersburg, Shostakovich came from a family of Polish Roman Catholic origin….

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