The Arts and the Beautiful

Easter Music to Sing and Listen To [+Free PDF to Download & Print!]

From Gregorian chant to Baroque beauty

Apr 24 •

Julian Kwasniewski

Three Poems for Good Friday

Oscar Wilde, Hilaire Belloc, and John Fitzpatrick

Apr 18 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Unusual Artistic Depictions of the Agony in the Garden

William Blake, Alessando Magnasco, El Greco, and Eric Gill

Apr 14 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Gregorian Chant: Music of the Holy Spirit (Part 3) + List of Resources

Further examples of the perfection of this ideal liturgical music — and recommended websites for instruction, recordings, and scores

Apr 10 •

Peter Kwasniewski

A Musical Analogy for Antiquity, Development, and Deviation

Can Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" help us better to understand the difference between organic expansion and reformatory rupture?

Feb 20 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Gregorian Chant: Music of the Holy Spirit (Part 2)

How the Church, a master of human psychology, marks times and connects the times through her chants

Feb 6 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Gregorian Chant: Music of the Holy Spirit (Part 1)

Only the eternal and infinite God could have begotten music of such perfection

Jan 30 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Icons as the Fruit and Seed of Incarnation: Windows into the Mystery of Christ and His Mother

Praying with icons sanctifies our gaze and frees us from visual contamination

Dec 30, 2024 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Catholic Ritual’s Appeal to Imagination: Émile Zola’s Low Mass

Today, I’d like to treat my readers and listeners to a delightful passage from a nowadays seldom-read work of French literature (in translation, of…

Dec 26, 2024 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Evermore Give Us This Bread

Five poems by Dr. K, with art and a poem by Julian

Dec 23, 2024 •

Peter Kwasniewski

Pastime with Good Company: Five Ideas for the Holidays

Along with some thoughts on leisure and community

Dec 12, 2024 •

Julian Kwasniewski

Five Advent Chants Every Catholic Should Sing [+Free PDF]

Learn them this season!

Nov 28, 2024 •

Julian Kwasniewski

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