Today's earworm is Allegri's "Miserere." Not the entire Psalm 51, but just the last verse, about the restoration of the Temple and the sacrifices on the altar. The final word is, if my earworm is correct, "victuos," or victim (maybe it's plural, I don't know that much Latin; it looks like a singular to me). It struck me that this is the origin of the term "victuals" (hence my title "vittles")--a forceful reminder of the relationship of meals with sacrificial worship.
Just a thought for a day of Lenten penance.
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This evening's earworm is an unlikely medley of the various responses for the liturgies of the Sacred Triduum (I just came back from a liturgy meeting). In between the medley changes back to the various settings we sang traditionally when I was much younger and directed part of the music program in my old "home" parish.
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