As the Christmas Octave and the year 2025 draw to a close, the Catholic Church invites us to pause prayerfully and do something that is right and just, our duty and salvation, always and everywhere: ...

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine's Great Music in a Great Space concert series continues with Musica Sacra: Te Deum Laudamus: Centennial & World Premiere on Tuesday, March 22 at 7:30pm, at the ...

With the death of British choral composer John Tavener in 2013, we are left with a single living composer of similar distinction: Arvo Pärt. Estonian by birth (b. 1935), Pärt emigrated from the ...

Works by two 16th-century masters of sacred music are here given sublime performances. The fluid counterpoint of Palestrina’s “Missa Tu es Petrus” and “Missa Te Deum laudamus” is contrasted with an ...

Adorna thalamum J. Guyot de Chätelet, Composer Cinquecento David Allsopp, Countertenor Amen, amen dico vobis J. Guyot de Chätelet, Composer Cinquecento David Allsopp, Countertenor Accepit Jesus panem ...

Pope includes special word for young people in his last address of 2016VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis concluded 2016 this evening in St. Peter’s Basilica with Eucharistic Benediction and the chanting of ...

We all have our favorite prayers, novenas, devotions and aspirations. One of mine is a prayer that seems to have fallen out of popular use lately: the ancient “Te Deum”, commonly attributed to St.

Strictly speaking, a 'te deum' is a ritualistic prayer with a celebratory tone, usually chanted by clerics or other men and women who have taken holy orders. But many composers have used Latin te deum ...