Eugen Jochum's 1980 Dresden recording of the Symphony no. 5 is overwhelmingly excellent — especially in the last few minutes — but his 1964 live recording with the Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Benedictine abbey of Ottobeuren is right up there too. ❤️
This month we're celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of our parish's founding in 1950. A Vespers service on October 3 for the Transitus of St. Francis of Assisi included this Bruckner motet, a setting of the Gradual for the dedication of a church.
Eugen Jochum's Bruckner 5 in Dresden is one of the great performances in the history of recorded music. The last five minutes is stunning — never matched before or since.
My wife gave me this icon some years ago. It clearly uses Bede's description of Paulinus as "a man tall of stature, a little stooping, with black hair and a thin face, a hooked and thin nose, his aspect both venerable and awe-inspiring."
Bede describes the Italian-born Paulinus personally as "a man tall of stature, a little stooping, with black hair and a thin face, a hooked and thin nose, his aspect both venerable and awe-inspiring."
Bede writes that when Paulinus met King Edwin of Northumbria the region was so peaceful that "a woman could carry her new-born babe across the island from sea to sea without any fear of harm." Would that it were always so everywhere.
Today's the feast of St Paulinus, C7 Roman missionary to England. 4th from the left in glass by Leonard Evetts, 1969, at Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, with St Aidan, St Bede, St Peter and St Cuthbert. He would have been the first Archbishop of York, but the pallium did not reach him from Rome in time.
#DilexiTe "A Church that sets no limits to love, that knows no enemies to fight but only men and women to love, is the Church that the world needs today."
#DilexitTe "The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking. Where the world sees threats, she sees children; where walls are built, she builds bridges. She knows that her proclamation of the Gospel is credible only when it is translated into gestures of closeness and welcome. . . .
My classmate and Ketterle were in the Guinness Book of World Records for a while for having achieved the "lowest manmade temperature" in their research on Bose–Einstein condensates.
