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Editor’s note: Pictured above is a detail from “Music in the Cloister” painted by August Wilhelm Roesler.
By Andrew Likoudis, National Catholic Register, Oct. 30, 2025
Andrew Likoudis holds a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from Towson University and an associate’s degree in business administration from the Community College of Baltimore County. He is the founder of the Likoudis Legacy Foundation, an ecumenical initiative dedicated to advancing theological scholarship and fostering Christian unity.
The apostolates that have taken up this task of sanctifying culture through art and music reveal that music is not an accompaniment to mission. It is mission.
On Oct. 23, the Higher Word Orchestra and Choir filled St. Anthony of Padua Church in Soho, Manhattan, with its All Hallows’ concert, lifting listeners’ minds to heavenly things, as St. Paul exhorts in Philippians 4:8.
In the century-old Romanesque church, beneath the dim glow of the rose window, shafts of light cut through a thin haze as the musicians performed Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus, Fauré’s Pie Jesu, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, and other sacred works whose harmonies rose into the vaults like incense, drawing a congregation of New Yorkers into a contemplative quiet that became, almost imperceptibly, prayer — a meditation on mortality and the passage from darkness to light that lies at the heart of the Church’s celebration of All Hallows’ Eve. …
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