Almost forgot! April 20, 1972: The Apollo mission with the best-named command module reached the moon!

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Five years earlier, on April 21, 1996 — thirty years ago tomorrow — Sinopoli conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden in an all-Wagner program in Ames, Iowa, during my first year at Iowa State. A happy memory from a very good performing-arts series.

Twenty-five years ago tonight, on April 20, 2001, Giuseppe Sinopoli suffered a fatal heart attack while conducting Verdi's AIDA at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

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My favorite Carmelite saint

A person with a long beard and disheveled hair is shown in a painting, wearing a fur hat and tattered clothing, holding a clay pipe. The background is dark, highlighting the figure.

Jacob Toorenvliet was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre scenes. Born in Leiden, Netherlands, in 1640, he went on to create works in numerous cities in the Netherlands and Italy and was part of the Leiden school of fine painters and later the Bentvueghels.

I met Fr. Isaac once — at the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo back in 2019. He came across as very smart and very nice. My one direct interaction with him was that he sold me a couple loaves of Genesee bread.

Venerable Bede on the priesthood of the faithful (Office of Readings): "They are a royal priesthood b/c they are united to the body of Christ, the supreme king and true priest ... they must always remember to hope for an everlasting kingdom and to offer to God the sacrifice of a blameless life."

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

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(Yes about the dog)

April 20, St. Beuno, abbot

"Nothing is so beautiful as Spring — When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush"

Gerard Manley Hopkins, from "Spring" — one of his St Beuno sonnets

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From the commentary on the first letter of Peter

Office of Readings for Monday of the Third Week of Easter

"The deliverance of the children of Israel and their journey to the long-promised land correspond with the mystery of our redemption: we are making our way toward the light of our heavenly home with the grace of Christ leading us and showing us the way."

St. Bede the Venerable

St Catherine, Mile Cross, one of the lamps in the nave.

St Catherine, Mile Cross. 1930s neo-Norman meets Art Deco and has a jolly time.

O Queen of the heavens, rejoice,
Alleluia!
For He whom as Virgin you bore,
Alleluia!
Arose from the tomb, as he said,
Alleluia!
Pray for us to God,
Alleluia!

Cradle Lutheran here (now papist). Spot on. 🎯

S.S. Wesley: Praise the Lord, My Soul YouTube video by St Paul's Cathedral Choir - Topic

Samuel Sebastian Wesley, d. April 19, 1876 — one hundred fifty years

His great anthem on Psalm 103, our wedding psalm — twenty-five years ago this summer! ❤️

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Absolute treasure trove of glass on one of my favorite scenes in the Gospels from @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social today

Third Sunday of Easter

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One of the more dramatic episodes in Bede's ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE (Book II, ch. 9). It was Easter Sunday.

Today we brought home from the frame shop a print of Daniel Mitsui's OUR LADY OF THE ATONEMENT — the first (and thus far only) Vatican-endorsed Marian title to have originated in a Protestant community

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The fifth book tells of Oethelwald who succeeded Cuthbert, man of God, in the solitary life on Farne Island.

BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; late 8th - early 9th century; England, S.; f.126r
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The 4th book opens with an eclipse, pestilence, the return of Colman to his own people, and the death of Deusdedit the sixth bishop of Canterbury.

BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; late 8th-early 9th century; England, S.; f.94r
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The third book opens with the death of Edwin and the passing of the kingdom of the Deiri to a son of his uncle Aelfric called Osric.

BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; late 8th - early 9th century; England, S.; f.60v
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The second book opens with the death of Pope St Gregory in 605.

BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; late 8th - early 9th century; England, S.; f.34v
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"..a certain Abbot Hadrian, a man of African race and well versed in the holy Scriptures.....and equally skilled in the Greek and Latin tongues."

BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; 9th century; England;f.94r
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"Brittania oceani insula, cui quondam Albion nomen fuit..."

BL Cotton MS Tiberius C II; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; late 8th-early 9th century; England, S.; f.5v
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Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances (reference recording: Eduard Toldrà, Orchestre National de France) YouTube video by Classical Music/ /Reference Recording

Ottorino Respighi, d. April 18, 1936

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These orchestrations of Renaissance lute works are little masterpieces. They lift my spirits whenever they come up on the radio.

"Bend your heart's ear." -Benedict's Rule

Respighi: Church Windows - IV. St. Gregory the Great (Gergely Madaras/BSO) YouTube video by Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Ottorino Respighi, d. April 18, 1936

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(A little wave to beloved St. Gregory's Abbey, Three Rivers, Michigan)

Henry Ossawa Tanner, — my favorite American painter — THE DISCIPLES SEE CHRIST WALKING ON THE WATER, Des Moines Art Center

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Saturday of the Second Week of Easter

"When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they began to be afraid. But he said to them, 'It is I. Do not be afraid.'"

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