• An icon of Christ
  • The crucifixion (detail), from a Psalter belonging to Robert de Lindesey, Abbot of Peterborough (1214-20).
  • St Mary's Church, Lastingham, North Yorkshire. © Philip Barker (Geograph). Licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Licence.
  • Detail from a stained glass window of St David of Wales.
  • Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska. From Wikimedia Commons.
  • Let us be crucified with him, and die for his sake to the pleasures of life, that we might live together with him

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  • O Christ God, that lovest mankind, grant unto us forgiveness for our failings, who worship thy immaculate Passion.

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  • Thou didst put to sleep the lusts of the passions, O Chad, for thou didst take hold of night-long vigils, obedience, and humility, and the study of the divine Scriptures, and also a pure heart and an untroubled heart's eye.

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  • "God," said he, "hath not disposed this place for thee, but for a son who is not yet born, nor will he be born until thirty years are past."

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  • Hollywood has brought out a movie dramatising Sarah Palin's brief campaign for Vice President of the United States, back in 2008. This is her video response.

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I shall lift you up on high to the Jerusalem that is above

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April 10, 2012
An icon of Christ

Let us be crucified with him, and die for his sake to the pleasures of life, that we might live together with him
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Then was our mouth filled with joy

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April 9, 2012
The crucifixion (detail), from a Psalter belonging to Robert de Lindesey, Abbot of Peterborough (1214-20).

O Christ God, that lovest mankind, grant unto us forgiveness for our failings, who worship thy immaculate Passion.
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St Bede: humble St Chad taught by example

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March 3, 2012
St Mary's Church, Lastingham, North Yorkshire. © Philip Barker (Geograph). Licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Licence.

Thou didst put to sleep the lusts of the passions, O Chad, for thou didst take hold of night-long vigils, obedience, and humility, and the study of the divine Scriptures, and also a pure heart and an untroubled heart's eye.
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St Patrick and St David

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March 1, 2012
Detail from a stained glass window of St David of Wales.

"God," said he, "hath not disposed this place for thee, but for a son who is not yet born, nor will he be born until thirty years are past."
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Music

Piano and orchestra

Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Concertos (Ashkenazy/Kissin; Vinnitskaya)

Generous extracts from Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concertos 2 and 3, played by Evgeny Kissin, and comments from conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Weeping willow trees on the River Gipping in Suffolk. © Nigel Chadwick (Geograph), licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons licence.

By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept (Moscow Sretensky choir)

Psalm 136, used on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, sung here by the Moscow Sretensky Choir.

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Simeon and Anna recognize the Lord in Jesus (c. 1627). From Wikimedia Commons.

The Song of Simeon (Sretensky Monastery choir)

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people.

A detail from stained glass in the Church of St Martin in Triel-sur-Seine, France, of the anointing of Jesus. © User GFreihalter, Wikimedia Commons. Licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons License..

Poem: Drop, drop slow tears (Phineas Fletcher)

In your deep floods / Drown all my faults and fears; / Nor let His eye See sin, / but through my tears.

Salix x sepulchralis, the weeping willow. From Wikimedia Commons.

The English Songbook (Ian Bostridge)

Ian Bostridge talks about "The English Songbook", a diverse collection of his favourite songs in the English language, and sings ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’.

A forest path towards Shieldgreen near Peebles in the Scottish Borders. © Callum Black (Geograph), licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Licence.

Franz Schubert: Winterreise (interview with Ian Bostridge and Leif Ove Andsnes)

Ian Bostridge (tenor) and Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) talk about Franz Schubert's song cycle "Winterreise" (winter journey).

Family

A schoolgirl in Patna, Bihar, India.

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An Orthodox Christian monk praying at sunset.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), La Jeune Mère (1898), detail. From Wikimedia Commons.

William Wordsworth: Blest the Babe, Nursed in his Mother’s arms

Emphatically such a Being lives, / Frail creature as he is, helpless as frail,...

The actor David Garrick and his wife, by William Hogarth (1757). From Wikimedia Commons.

‘My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life’

“I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed...

A scene from the movie ‘Doonby’ (downloaded from media page at official website)

Doonby (Movie) — Official Trailer

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The Annual Walk for Life West Coast, in San Francisco (January 24, 2012).

Tens of thousands Walk for Life in San Francisco

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