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Before the Angelus James Walton
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- Society & Culture
This podcast is James Walton's Thotful Spot: an early-morning miscellany of musings, meanderings and a modicum of music from a gladtrad, omad, carnivorous, catholic, big-family dad.
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Virtue, Beauty, Rules and Heroes: Why March 21st is a Feast Day in My House
Walton reflects on two of his greatest heroes, St. Benedict of Nursia and Johann Sebastian Bach. Today is a good day to celebrate these great men, being the death day of one and the birthday of the other, and what better way than to read a biography from a couple of dusty, old books: Omer Engelbert's Lives of the Saints (1951) and Percy Scholes' The Complete Book of the Great Musicians (1920). Then there's a bit of Erbarme Dich. You'll love it.
https://www.uma.es/victoria/varios/pdf/Bach-244-Erbarme_Dich.pdf