✝️🛐📿🕊💜 OhhhmyJesus! Hear my prayer, hear my cry. You've placed people in my care/oversight & I cannot provide. Yes, Lord, thank you for the meager public assistance you've given for them. But, please Lord, will you provide funds? Lord, you know the big amount needed.
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Has anyone ever wondered why Do is called Do, Re is called Re, and Mi is called Mi? The story behind the origin of the musical scale is interesting and unexpected.
It all begins with a Benedictine monk who lived in the 11th century (995–1050), named Guido d��Arezzo. He noticed a peculiarity in a very popular hymn to Saint John the Baptist at the time.
This hymn was composed of 7 verses, each with a different musical note. For this reason, the monk named each note using the first two letters of each verse. Here is the hymn:
Ut queant laxis (Ut) Resonare fibris (Re) Mira gestorum (Mi) Famuli tuorum (Fa) Solve polluti (Sol) Labii reatum (La) Sancte Ioannes (Si)
(So that your servants, with free voices, may resound the wonders of your deeds, cleanse the guilt from our stained lips, O Saint John the Baptist)
Since the syllable “Ut” was not easy to sing, it was replaced by “Do” in 1640 by Giovanni Battista Doni.
Not many people in the world of music, today so far removed from God, know that the names of the musical notes come from a hymn to the greatest of His prophets. Happy Saint John’s Day!
In his Summa Theologiae, St Thomas Aquinas laid out one of the most charitable yet practical arguments concerning immigration that effectively shaped the West for almost 1,000 years.
1. Immigration must always be proportionate so that foreigners can properly assimilate into the culture and mode of worship of the state.
2. Citizenship – and associated rights – should only ever be granted after the third generation to preserve the culture, mode of worship, and constitution of the state.
3. The common good of the citizens must remain the highest priority of the state, meaning, the state's obligation to provide aid to its neighbours can never be at the expense of the citizens.
However, Aquinas ends with the sobering reminder that some peoples and states are incompatible with one another, and these must be held as "foes in perpetuity".
When we pray, our words should be calm, modest and disciplined. […] For God hears our heart not our voice. He sees our thoughts; he is not to be shouted at. ~ St. Cyprian (Office of Readings)