Day: December 16, 2013

O Sapientia

Byartsyhonker December 16, 2013 1 Comment
The "O" Antiphons are traditionally sung with the Magnificat starting on 17th December (Roman use) or 16th December (Book of Common Prayer). I like the BCP use, so I start today. O Sapientia, quae ex ore Altissimi prodiisti, attingens a fine usque ad finem, fortiter suaviter disponens que omnia: veni ad docendum nos viam prudentiae. (English:) O Wisdom, which camest out of the mouth of the most...

Cheerful Voices: There was an old woman who had a little pig

Byartsyhonker December 16, 2013 0 Comments
Cheerful Voices by Kathryn Rose My grandfather used to sing this to me. He sang a sort of postlude, too, to a different tune which I have now forgotten. I don't know why pig mortality was something my grandfather was singing to me about, or indeed whether two grown-ups dying of broken hearts is really appropriate material for a four-year-old, but I don't remember it bothering me at all. Some of...