Today we welcome St. Augustine of Hippo (+430) who speaks to us from a sermon about St. John the Baptist on his feast day, the Feast of the Nativity of St. John.
Along the way you will hear a couple versions of Ut queant laxis, the famous hymn for this feast day. The first is a baroque version by Juan de Araujo (+1712), which will give you a sense of the sacred music in the great cathedrals of S America. This has a pretty groovy ending, too. There is also a Gregorian chant version worked in.
And since a reader recently dropped me a line about having enjoyed the stories of The Little World, we have another installment about the fictional not-quite-saint don Camillo Tarocci, (+ A.D. … ?), tough guy and parish priest.
Some time ago, I began a to read stories from The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi. There is a Don Camillo tag you can use to find the others easily.
These delightful pieces are set in post-war Northern Italy.
They blend brilliant insight into the human condition with solid applied Catholic Faith.
Today we hear the story:
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