September 2023

I chose Allegri’s Miserere and Titian’s Christ and the Good Thief for this comparative essay. The Miserere was composed by Gregorio Allegri for the Holy Week Offices to be sung in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican under the reign of Urban VIII, circa 1638. The text is from Psalm 50 (51), the Miserere. I first […]

The weekend at the Legionaries of Christ Novitiate and College of Humanities was full of gratitude and joy this past Labor Day weekend. We were celebrating the closing of the 40th Anniversary of the establishment of the current Novitiate in Cheshire, Connecticut. Over this past year, we have been celebrating, with deep gratitude, God’s goodness