Friday, April 19, 2019

Good Friday

The clouds have gathered.  It is the year’s darkest day, and utterly bone-dry.  Today not a single Mass will be celebrated in the whole world.

Here is a fragment of Venantius Fortunatus’ hymn Pange lingua gloriosi: (not to be confused with St. Thomas Aquinas’ later hymn, which was inspired by this one), sung by Westminster Cathedral Choir.

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