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PRESENTS

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER

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This week, we invite you to reflect, alongside FIRST THINGS authors, on the role sacred music plays in our relationship to the divine. Can the sound of music anticipate the sound of heaven?

OCTOBER 2009 ● BY DAVID BENTLEY HART

THE MUSIC OF ETERNITY

There are some pieces of music that, by their nature, should remain unfinished.  

APRIL 1991 ● BY PAUL V. MANKOWSKI

DO YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU SING?

Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend that the motto of the Catholic Church could be: We Guarantee to Corrupt Nothing But Your Taste.