“The Path of the Mystic” Musical Reflection at St. Gertrude, Madeira

In 1911, the eminent English theologian Evelyn Underhill published her definitive treatise on the Church’s mystics, distinguishing eight steps common to these extraordinary saints on their paths to holiness. Capella, St. Gertrude’s professional choir, presents a meditation reflecting on this journey toward divine mysticism, with transcendent works by St. Hildegard, James MacMillan, Marcel Dupré, W.H. Harris, and more. Featuring Mary Lou Williams’s masterpiece St. Martin de Porres.

No charge: freewill offering

Part of the inaugural St. Gertrude Sacred Music Series, which will bring together world-class artists from across the United States to present the Roman Catholic Church’s treasury of sacred music from the last millennium in concerts, musical meditations, and services.