Tag: Requiem

  • Singing for the Dead: Pie Jesu

    Singing for the Dead: Pie Jesu

    Soul-searing beauty has the power to permeate the places we so often guard, to allow the grace of God’s love to enter.

  • Music at John F. Kennedy’s Funeral

    A grief-stricken nation watched the President’s [John F. Kennedy’s] funeral on television, and many non-Catholic viewers wondered what type of ceremony this would be. Here was a great religion with an impressive legacy of religious music; here was the funeral of the first Roman Catholic president of the United States, and heads of state from…