For the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes: "Song of Bernadette"

Since today is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes this seems an appropriate link:

For the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes: "Song of Bernadette":

People forget that Leonard Cohen wrote something else besides the now-ubiquitous "Hallelujah". He composed this haunting ode to love and human frailty, "Song of Bernadette." Here's the great Jennifer Warnes - whatever happened to her, by the way? — performing this, evidently on "The Smothers Brothers" show in the early 1970s.

Read the whole thing.

(Via New Advent World Watch.)

Feast of the Assumption

Saint Tarcisius gets buried in this major feast, but here is a link that covers both.

Immaculate Conception

Something appropriate from Clayton:

Immaculate Conception:

Hail, bright star of ocean,
God's own Mother blest,
Ever sinless Virgin,
Gate of heavenly rest.

Read the whole thing.

(Via The Weight of Glory.)