by Brian Volck | Jan 20, 2020 | Baltimore, Martin Luther King Jr., murders, Robert F Kennedy
There was nearly a murder a day in my adopted city of Baltimore in 2019; the official total being 348. The casualties in this ongoing, undeclared, and pointless war fell once again most heavily on African-American families. We are a very long way from “the dream” well...
by Brian Volck | Jan 6, 2020 | Epiphany, TS Eliot
It’s the Feast of the Epiphany in the West and of the Theophany in the East, and though T S Eliot’s Ariel Poem, “The Journey of the Magi,” gets trotted rather often this time of year, there’s still something in the words that makes me shiver. From the slightly...
by Brian Volck | Dec 24, 2019 | Christmas
Cum ortus fúerit sol de cælo, vidébitis Regem regum procedéntem a Patre, tamquam sponsum de thálamo suo. When the sun rises in the heavens you will see the king of kings. He comes forth from the Father like a bridegroom coming in splendor from his wedding chamber. For...
by Brian Volck | Dec 23, 2019 | Christmas, O Antiphon
O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio Gentium, et Salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos, Domine, Deus noster. O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope of the nations and their Saviour: Come and save us, O Lord our God. Therefore the Lord himself will...
by Brian Volck | Dec 22, 2019 | Christmas, O Antiphon
O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti. O King of the nations, and their desire, the cornerstone making both one: Come and save the human race, which you fashioned from clay. He...
