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True Beauty Archives - The Catholic Thing
Eric Clapton, Luciano Pavarotti, and the East London Gospel Choir: ‘Holy Mother’
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Giovanni Palestrina: ‘Exaltabo te’ (I will exalt you)
Sunday, August 17, 2025
‘Good Tree’ sung by The Hillbilly Thomists
Sunday, August 10, 2025
O Salutaris Hostia (O Savior, Host) by Anthony Werner
Sunday, August 3, 2025
‘Locus iste’ (“This place was made by God.”) by Anton Bruckner
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Beethoven: ‘Benedictus’ from ‘Missa Solemnis’
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Ave Maris Stella (Edvard Grieg) VOCES8 at Wilhering Abbey (Austria)
Sunday, July 13, 2025
St. Benedict’s ‘In Paradisum’ sung by the Gregorian School of Milan
Sunday, July 6, 2025
Théodore Dubois: Adoramus te, Christe
Sunday, June 29, 2025
The 23rd Psalm by Franz Schubert
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Ad Completorium: Psalmus 90-91 (Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz)
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Mozart: Requiem, K. 626: VII. Agnus Dei
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Hector Berlioz: Requiem, Op. 5, H 75: V. ‘Quaerens me’
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Beethoven, Mass in C Major, Op 86 – Credo
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Anonymous 4: ‘Ad superni regis decus,’ attributed to Pope Calixtus II
Sunday, May 18, 2025
‘Aprite le porte a Cristo’ by Fr. Marco Frisina (hymn to Pope St. John Paul II)
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Gloria from ‘Coronation Mass’ by Mozart
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Hector Berlioz ‘Sanctus’ with Luciano Pavarotti
Sunday, April 27, 2025
O Esca Viatorum by Heinrich Isaac
Sunday, April 13, 2025
William Byrd (1540-1623) Sanctus and Benedictus (Mass for Three Voices)
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Thomas Tallis: If Ye Love Me (Keep My Commandments) Mancunium Consort
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Gregorian Chant of the Annunciation in Nazareth
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted by Thomas Kelly
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s ‘Super flumina Babylonis’ (By the rivers of Babylon)
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Franz Josef Schütky: ‘Emitte spiritum tuum’ (Send forth thy spirit)
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: ‘Stabat Mater’ (Mary Magdalene Chamber Choir, Stockholm)
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Léonin (c. 1135–1201): Alleluya. Non vos relinquam orphanos (Do not leave us orphans.)
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) ‘O Vos Omnes’
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Gregorian chant: ‘Adorado’
Sunday, February 2, 2025
‘Sacris solemniis’ by St. Thomas Aquinas and Ludwig von Beethoven
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Palestrina: ‘Missa Papae Marcelli’ (Credo). Sistine Chapel Choir
Sunday, January 19, 2025
‘Sanctus’ from Requiem in D minor by Gabriel Fauré (1887-90)
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Morten Lauridsen and O Magnum Mysterium (St. Jacob’s Youth Choir)
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Wait for the Lord by Jacques Berthier
Sunday, December 22, 2024
‘I waited and waited for the Lord’ from ‘Christmas Oratorio’ (Camille Saint-Saëns)
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Gesù bambino (by Pietro Yon) sung by Deux
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Gounod: Ave Maria, CG 89a (Renée Fleming)
Sunday, December 1, 2024
James MacMillan: ‘Cecilia Virgo’ (The Choir of Royal Holloway)
Sunday, November 24, 2024
O Salutaris Hostia (O saving Host)
Sunday, November 17, 2024
‘Jerusalem’ performed by the Cadet Glee Club of West Point
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Mass for the Octave of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Introit
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Litany of the Saints in Gregorian chant
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Hildegard von Bingen: O, Ecclesia
Sunday, October 20, 2024
De Profundis (Gregorian Chant)
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Salve Mater/Salve Regina sung by Nóirín Ní Riain
Sunday, October 6, 2024
“Ecce Virgo” by the Norbertine canons of St. Michael’s Abbey, Silverado, California
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem Op. 9 – IV, Sanctus
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Pater Noster sung by Pope St. John Paul II
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Gustav Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony: conclusion
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Sergei Rachmaninov: “We Hymn Thee”
Sunday, September 1, 2024
