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Schubert Soothes Savages, Becalms Beasts and Subdues Students (Throwing Food) – the Evidence is Here

by David Clayton on June 7, 2013 · 0 comments

As another in an occasional series that just relates pieces of music that had a great effect on me  I offer Schubert’s Impromptu Op 90 No4. I was a student at Oxford when I first heard this. It was at…

Aquinas, Augustin, Benedict and Corbon on Seven and Eight in the Psalms and the Liturgy.

by David Clayton on May 14, 2013 · 0 comments

The Pattern of the Liturgy is a Model for Design in Beauty that Will Draw People To Your Work

In his book the Wellspring of Worship, Jean Corbon talks about the significance of the numbers seven and eight in the…

Thomas More College Alumnus Enter Novitiate for Oratory of St Philip Neri in Lewiston, Maine

by David Clayton on May 7, 2013 · 0 comments

Here are some photos of Br Tyler Tracey’s entrance into the Novitiate of the Fraternity of St Philip Neri at the Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul, Lewiston, Maine. This is an Oratory in Formation founded just last August and…

Christian Geometric Art in an Arabic Gospel

by David Clayton on May 3, 2013 · 0 comments

Last week I featured the first work produced by my students at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in their sacred geometry class. They did eight sided figures based upon an Islamic design. Just in case anyone has been wondering…

Some Geometric Art from Thomas More College Students

by David Clayton April 26, 2013

Here are some examples of geometric art produced by students from Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. They are their first projects for my Way of Beauty class. They were asked to produce an octagonal tile pattern that was based…

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Thomas Aquinas on the Psalms and the Liturgy as the Source of Wisdom

by David Clayton April 2, 2013

Educators take note! Here is the greatest source of wisdom. When writing about Jean Leclercq’s Love of Learning and the Desire for God, I referred to his description of the tension that exists between the  different educational approaches of the…

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Thomas More College Choir Sings for the Extraordinary Form, First Sunday of Lent

by David Clayton February 19, 2013

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Here are some recordings of what we sang. Last Sunday, the First Sunday in Lent, the Thomas More College choir sang at St Patrick’s in Nashua, NH. We sang at the invitation of Fr Kerper, the pastor at St Patricks.…

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A Wedding in the Chapel at Thomas More College, Merrimack, New Hampshire

by David Clayton January 4, 2013

I recently attended a wedding at the chapel of Thomas More College. The bride was stunningly beautiful, the music was sublime, the art was gorgeous.
I probably should declare at this point that my opinion on this matter is not…

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Pictures of the Installation of Christ in Majesty in Thomas More College Chapel

by David Clayton December 21, 2012

Just before the Christmas break the latest and largest painting was installed in the college chapel. It is Christ in Majesty. In painting this and placing it behind the crucifixion I had in mind two things: first that we are…

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Send Out the L-Team – Making a Sacrifice of Praise for American Veterans

by David Clayton December 4, 2012

Recently when I went home to England we had a reunion of old college friends of mine. Most were not believers of any sort – I had known them since I was eighteen and so the friendships pre-date, by a…

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