Among the "O" Antiphons, one of the most beautiful is "O Root of Jesse". Healey Willan's setting is evocative and mysterious.

Best know for his opera "Dialogues des Carmélites," Frances Poulenc wrote beautiful choral music for the Church. His "Ave verum" is a gem.

The motet, Rorate coeli, Op. 176: No. 7, was composed by Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger as a part of his nine Advent motets.

Two classes of people were able to discern the importance of Christ’s birth—the humble and the wise.

Guerrero’s music is considered eminently vocal, strongly Spanish in character, and evocative of a vivid and serene spirituality.

Originally trained as a medical doctor, Busto taught himself music, but discovered choral music later. His music stirs the soul.

Hermannus Contractus (1013–54) is believed to have composed both the "Alma Redemptoris Mater" in the 11th century.

This well-known carol (Veni, veni, Emmanuel) takes us back over 1,200 years to monastic life in the 8th- or 9th-century.

People bristle at the use of the word heresy, but technically anyone who dissents from the true faith is a heretic.

Among the ruins of Pompei there are markings on the wall of what was once a tavern. These jottings show the debts unpaid.

This unique version of De Profundis ("From the depths I cry") was commissioned by the Stellenbosch University Choir (South Africa).

This beautiful rendition of the Gregorian De profundis is sung by the Nova Schola Gregoriana and conducted by Alberto Turco.

Michel Richard Delalande was organist and composer to King Louis IV. His "De profundis" is a stirring setting of Psalm 130 (129).

This musical masterpiece brings forth the depth of human suffering, especially as experienced by those who died in the Holocaust.

Samuel Barber's timeless Adagio for Strings, Op. 11, is here performed at the Summer Night Concert in 2019.

Henry Purcell's Funeral Sentences was performed at the funeral of Queen Mary II in 1695.

Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500 – 1553) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance. The Missa pro Defunctis is thought to be his last work.

In Paradisum was composed in 2020 to honor the victims of the coronavirus and the thousands of families left behind.

Fr. Solanus Casey (1870–1957) was a priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was known during his lifetime as a wonderworker.

Enjoy this inspiring film about the life of Saint Charbel Makhlouf, the Miracle Monk of Lebanon.