Palestrina’s Sicut Cervus sets Psalm 42 with smooth, interweaving lines that rise and fall like breath itself.

Written in the late Renaissance, the piece unfolds in gentle waves of sound, as voices answer one another and unite in luminous harmony.

This song embodies Catholic worship itself: earthly voices joining the heavenly liturgy.

How does this help us pray at Mass? The Vatican II Constitution on ...

Elgar’s oratorio is based upon a 1865 poem, by St. John Henry Newman.

George Frederic Handel’s “For unto Us a Child Is Born” turns Isaiah...