If I knew how, I would embed a video in honor of the BVM
on the Feast of The Assumption.
I am still in shock at Tessa Bonner's death this past New Year's Eve of oral cancer.
She possessed a soprano voice of such perfect clarity, and the sacred polyphony which she sang makes my fallen human nature wonder how can this even happen? I have lain awake in a sort of terror.
For me, the works of Thomas Tallis cause me to love Christ and His Mother more each and every time. I can't imagine performing his exquisite, complex, heart-wrending sacred music and not being converted to the true faith.
I hope God will have mercy on Tessa Bonner's soul for giving such beauty to such a profane world. I don't know if she led a Catholic life, and there are practically no clergy left in UK who would give Last Rites even if asked.
If I listen to Miserere Nostre, I realise I deserve horrible cancer and that I'd better start carrying my crosses with a much better attitude of patience and charity.