Music for Easter Sunday: Pascha nostrum
“Christ, our Paschal Lamb, has been sacrificed, alleluia; therefore, let us keep the feast by sharing the unleavened bread of uprightness and truth, alleluia.”
Posts Tagged: Christianity
WATCH: Johnson’s Easter message. Jesus’ message “permeates through every aspect of daily life”
“Millions of good Samaritans – each of them showing what loving thy neighbour as thyself really looks like in twenty-first century Britain”.
Music for Holy Saturday: Recessit Pastor Noster
“Our Shepherd is departed, the fount of living water,/At whose passing the sun was darkened…Today the gates of death…as well our Saviour has destroyed.”
Sarah Ingham: After the Batley protests and on this Easter Saturday, a case for tolerating religious belief
In Britain, we don’t ‘do God’ too much. Should we go to church, most are not C of E, but C and E – Christmas and Easter.
Music for Good Friday: Tenebrae Factae Sunt
“There was darkness over the earth…and about the ninth hour Jesus cried aloud: ‘My God why hast thou forsaken me?’ ”
David Alton: The horror of this day, Good Friday, is a horror for our times
Turn a blind eye, and every one of the other 30 Articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be breached too.
Music for Maundy Thursday: Ubi caritas et amor
“Where charity and love are, there God is. Love of Christ has gathered us into one. Let us rejoice in Him and be glad.”
Profile: Danny Kruger, defender of Christian conservatism and traditional ideas of virtue
He wrote Cameron’s “Hug a Hoody” speech, and during the Barnard Castle affair leapt to the defence of Cummings.
Chris Whitehouse: One elderly recipient burst into tears with joy at the delivery. My own story of anti-communist smuggling.
In my case, the contraband was books – taken into then communist Czechoslovakia through a network linked to the charity Aid to the Church in Need.
James Somerville-Meikle: The Conservative Party and the Catholic community can find much common ground
The role of the Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel in bringing about Catholic emancipation in this country provides strong foundations.
WATCH: “I sing of a maiden”
Our annual series of carols continues ends today on this last day of the old year.
WATCH: “Joys Seven”
Our annual series of carols continues from today until the last of the twelve days of Christmas.
WATCH: “O Dulce jubilo”
Our annual series of carols continues from today until the last of the twelve days of Christmas.
WATCH: Coventry Carol
“Herod the King, in his raging, Charged he hath this day; His men of might, in his own sight, All children young, to slay.”
WATCH: “Ding Dong Merrily on High”
Our annual series of carols continues from today until the last of the twelve days of Christmas.