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From the YouTube Music Video Archives: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (‘Resurrection’) – Finale

April 4, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 10:00 am

“Why have you lived? Why have you suffered? Is it all some huge, awful joke? We have to answer these questions somehow if we are to go on living – indeed, even if we are only to go on dying!” These are the questions Mahler said were posed in the first movement of his Symphony No. 2, questions that he promised would be answered in the finale.

–John Henken, Los Angeles Philharmonic, ‘About the Piece’

The full symphony is available on YouTube here, courtesy of the Netherlands’ Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Quin Finnegan has more on Mahler (and Percy!) here.

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‘… Still With You.’

April 4, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 12:00 am

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘… I rose up and am still with you.’

Psalm 139: 18

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‘… He Brought Them Out of Darkness …’

April 3, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 12:00 am

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder.’

Psalm 107: 14

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‘… His Sepulchre Shall Be Glorious.’

April 2, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 3:25 pm

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘In that day the root of Jesse, who stands for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious.’

Isaiah 11: 10

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‘Let Him Not Lose What He So Dear Hath Bought.’

April 2, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 3:00 pm

From Cell 25 of the Convent of San Marco, by Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), 15th Century

Think on the very làmentable pain,

Think on the piteous cross of woeful Christ,

Think on His blood beat out at every vein,

Think on His precious heart carvèd in twain,

Think how for thy redemption all was wrought:

Let Him not lose what He so dear hath bought.

–Pico della Mirandola (translated by St Thomas More)

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‘… Wounded for Our Iniquities …’

April 2, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 12:00 pm

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘… he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins….‘

Isaiah 53: 5

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‘They Parted My Garments Amongst Them….’

April 2, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 11:50 am

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.’

Psalm 22: 19

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‘… He Shall Be Led as a Sheep to the Slaughter …’

April 2, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 10:00 am

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth.’

Isaiah 53: 7

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‘I am ready for scourges….’

April 2, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 9:15 am

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me.‘

Psalm 38: 18

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‘I have not turned away my face …’

April 2, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 8:00 am

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.‘

Isaiah 50:6

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‘… They Strike the Cheek of the Judge of Israel.’

April 2, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 6:00 am

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘ Now shall you be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.’

Micah 4:14

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Darkness

April 2, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 3:00 am

From the Dominican Office of Tenebrae (‘Darkness’) for Good Friday, A.D. 2009, at Blackfriars, Oxford.

The text for this portion of the service is the Benedictus, or Canticle of Zechariah. Though this canticle, comprising Luke 1:68-79, is part of the Church’s morning prayer every day of the year (at the hour of Lauds), it has a special resonance on these days.

Because of the compassionate kindness of our God,
the dawn from on high shall break upon us

To shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,
to guide our feet in the way of peace.

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‘…They Shall Bind You…’

April 1, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 9:20 pm

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘And you, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon you, and they shall bind you with them: and you shall not go forth from the midst of them. And I will make your tongue stick fast to the roof of your mouth, and you shall be dumb….’

Ezekiel 3: 25-26

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‘…Even the Man Who Ate My Bread….’

April 1, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 9:15 pm

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘… Even the man … in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.’

Psalm 41: 10

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‘…My Victim, Which I Slay for You…’

April 1, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 6:15 pm

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘Assemble yourselves, make haste, come together from every side to my victim, which I slay for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel: to eat flesh, and drink blood.’

Ezekiel 39:17

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‘…Be Clean…’

April 1, 2021 by Angelico Nguyen at 5:45 pm

From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450

‘… when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.’

Isaiah 1: 15-17

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Heads up.

April 25, 2015 by Angelico Nguyen at 12:00 am

Martyrdom: The Coloring Book

Illustrated by the supremely grim, superlatively talented Julia Gfrörer *
Due September 2015 from Zest Books
Blurb:

The lives of the saints are filled with inspiring, life-changing moments—but the deaths of the martyrs are where you’ll find the real “Oh, hell no!” moments of history. This adult (very adult, as the body count will quickly indicate) coloring book gives aspiring crayon and paper artists the chance to hone their craft while also buffing up their knowledge of Catholic history and tales. The attending stories will go down pretty easy at cocktail hours as well. [Continued…]

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Burrito

February 14, 2015 by Angelico Nguyen at 8:00 pm

Burrito, bolus in my belly, fire in my breast. My dinner, my doom. Boo-rree-toh: the trill of the tongue wrapped before and behind by the osculating opening of the lips. Boo. Rree. Toh. It was lengua, stewed lengua, in the middle, morsels melting from meat to stock. It was beans and rice below. It was salsa de tomate on top. But in the tortilla it was all a Burrito.

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From the YouTube Music Video Archives: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (‘Resurrection’) – Finale

‘… Still With You.’

‘… He Brought Them Out of Darkness …’

‘… His Sepulchre Shall Be Glorious.’

‘Let Him Not Lose What He So Dear Hath Bought.’

‘… Wounded for Our Iniquities …’

‘They Parted My Garments Amongst Them….’

‘… He Shall Be Led as a Sheep to the Slaughter …’

‘I am ready for scourges….’

‘I have not turned away my face …’

‘… They Strike the Cheek of the Judge of Israel.’

Darkness

‘…They Shall Bind You…’

‘…Even the Man Who Ate My Bread….’

‘…My Victim, Which I Slay for You…’

‘…Be Clean…’

Heads up.

Burrito

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