Gen Z is rediscovering sacred music. They are drawn to the otherworldliness of it. 🧵
1. Katie Marshall sings a cappella in the Cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral
2. Blind girl sings Amazing Grace a cappella in a church
3. Composed in 1638, Allegri’s Miserere was originally intended to only be sung during Holy Week, and to never leave the Sistine Chapel in order to preserve the mystery of the music.
Here it is performed by St Paul’s Cathedral Choir.
4. Pope John Paul II sings Our Father prayer in Latin during mass at Saint Peter’s Basilica
5. Andrea Bocelli, a devout Catholic, sings Ave Maria at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes
6. Maria Coman singing Psalm 135 in Byzantine and Romanian
7. Gregorian Chant by the Sisters of St. Thomas Aquinas
8. Katie Marshall singing a cappella at midnight in an empty St. Paul’s Cathedral
9. Psalm 50 in Aramaic
10. Malinda Kathleen tests the acoustics in a church
11. Ave Maria in the Sistine Chapel
12. Hymn sung every morning in Latin
13. Children celebrating their First Holy Communion sing and worship Jesus
14. The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic
15. Pope Leo XIV singing the Pater Noster in the Sistine Chapel
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Unpopular opinion: Christopher Columbus was a hero.
He singlehandedly carried the torch of Christianity and Western civilization across the ocean, lighting the dawn of a new world.
A thread on one of the most courageous explorers in history 🧵
"I should not proceed by land to the East, as is custom, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone."
Columbus wrote this on August 3, 1492.
Can you imagine the bravery it took to even consider such a journey?
It cannot be overstated: Columbus literally crossed the Atlantic and opened the Americas to Europe.
That single act set in motion a series of cultural, religious, and intellectual exchanges that have defined the modern world.
1. The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, begun in 1228, includes two churches (Upper and Lower) and a crypt with the saint’s remains.
Francis was buried on 25 May 1230 under the Lower Basilica, but its burial site remained a mystery until its rediscovery in 1818.
2. Assisi, in Umbria, is both the birthplace and resting place of Saint Francis, and its basilica dates back to 1228.
Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is an iconic Christian pilgrimage destination and serves as an important example of the Gothic style in Italy.
In 1987 American academia was rocked by the release of The Closing of The American Mind.
Bloom was the first to say out-loud what many already knew.
10 chilling quotes from The Closing of the American Mind. 🧵
1) We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
2) Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise----as priests, prophets or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Converted into a prison during the French Revolution, it underwent a magnificent restoration in the late 19th century.
Victor Hugo once said that Mont-Saint-Michel is to France what the Pyramids are to Egypt.
3. Sénanque Abbey, France
Lavender cultivation by the monks of Sénanque not only supports their livelihood but also transforms the abbey’s surroundings into a sublime landscape.