When did the motet originate? The motet began inthe early 13th centuryas an application of a new text (i.e., “word”) to older music. Specifically, the text was added to the wordless upper-voice parts of descant clausulae. Who invented the motet?
But if you don’t invest your resources wisely, the outcome can be bad. As I think about people who inadvertently invested in lives of hollow unhappiness, I can’t help believing that their troubles related right back to a short-term perspective. When people with a high need for ...
is the day in Holy Week that commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with His disciples. It is a significant Christian observance where Jesus instituted the Eucharist, washed the disciples' feet as a symbol of humility and service, and foretold His betrayal. The term "Maundy" is derived ...
‘When did I first begin to guess?’ he mused, searching back in memory. ‘Let me see - it was in the year that the White Council drove the dark power from Mirkwood, just before the Battle of Five Armies, that Bilbo found his ring. A shadow fell on my heart then, though I did...
Young children engage with digital technologies from a very young age. Often this is considered detrimental to their social development as it is seen as a
Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family: Catholic Public Domain VersionAnd you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a remission for all the inhabitants of your land: for the same is the Jubilee. A man shall return to...
He was sixteen years old, when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia of Jerusalem. Catholic Public Domain VersionHe was sixteen years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. ...
formidable and guarded secrets; at least that was so when I was a boy. Did I ever tell you how I lost my arm?” Does that not whet your appetite? This preamble serves as an introduction to the main body of the story, which has Porteous recounting the story of how he lost his arm...
And you’ve also raised a great point that Mormonism is the logical conclusion of their Protestant Reformation. I’d like to know what you would think is the best plan of attack, so to speak, to evangelize the Catholic faith to them. Yeah, so I mean, I did several episode series on...
Catholic TranslationsDouay-Rheims BibleThe words of Amos, who was among herdsmen of Thecua: which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel two years before the earthquake. Catholic Public Domain VersionThe words...