Have been trying to find out what this Friday today is about, one week after Good Friday, one day before the Orthodox Pascha kicks off … late Saturday night till Sunday lunchtime … will need to recheck this as I need to send messages including this:

Far from being an authority on ecclesiastical matters, I’m an eternal learner, doing the best I can to keep up. In western tradition, it seems that this today is part of some “octave” … I tried to find out here:

https://churchmousec.wordpress.com

Anyway, there happen to be these two pieces of music in my “to post” list, among others … my question to you is … which “laudate” do you prefer (following on from yesterday’s similar question):

There’s some added sadness with the first soprano:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Jane%C4%8Dkov%C3%A1

… having been born in mid 1998, she died in late 2023 of cancer, so her musical heritage was shortish.

Only speculation on my part but I wonder how far the murderous vaxx was behind the cancer. I also relate to such matters the recent sidelining of RFK Jr by the WH on his anti-vaxx statements … WH policy on vaxxes is now controlled by Big Pharma … easy to see why. How many more dead young people?