22 January 2022 | St. Vincent of Zaragoza | Menlo Park, Calif.

This week, we dive headlong into the Pickwick Papers, meet the eponymous gentleman and his erstwhile compatriots, and hear an unexpectedly bleak story in the midst of a merry evening! What might the clergyman’s tale have to tell us about Dickens’ own relationship to the Church? Also in this episode: the anthropological, historical and cosmic dimensions of liturgy, and what it all means for the music you hear at Mass.

Opening music: “Tota pulchra es, Maria,” sung by Harpa Dei, 2021. All rights reserved.