Oculi

Claire Martin/Oculi/Agence VU for The Wall Street Journal On the beach at Sainte-Anne, spend the morning paddling around shallow reefs and pale beaches and look for the elderly couple who sell the incredible local sorbet, made with fresh papaya and coconut milk.

Where New Orleans, Mediterranean Meet 2011

Claire Martin/Oculi/Agence VU for The Wall Street Journal Rent kayaks and spend the morning paddling around shallow reefs and pale beaches.

Where New Orleans, Mediterranean Meet 2011

Claire Martin / Oculi / Agence VU for The Wall Street Journal Fisherman fillet their catch on the beach and sell to the public in Le Carbet.

Where New Orleans, Mediterranean Meet 2011

Claire Martin/Oculi/Agence VU for The Wall Street Journal The first cocktail of the weekend, a Ti' Punch at Hotel Bakoua | Ti' Punch is lemon, sugar and three fingers of white agricultural rum.

Where New Orleans, Mediterranean Meet 2011

Finally: if you'd like to listen to the Introits for which the Sundays of Lent are named (Invocavit, Oculi, Judica, etc.), you can do it here, at the Christusrex.org site, which features hundreds of mp3 files recorded at St. Benedict's Monastery in São Paulo (Brazil).

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If you'd like to actually listen to the Introits for which the Sundays of Lent are named (Invocavit, Oculi, Judica, etc.), you can do it here, at the Christusrex.org site, which features hundreds of mp3 files recorded at St. Benedict's Monastery in São Paulo (Brazil).

Lauds and Vespers Hymns, Lent 3 - Lent 4 bls 2008

Here is an mp3 of the Vespers hymn, "Ecce tempus idoneum" ("Now is the healing time decreed"), sung each evening beginning on Oculi (Lent 3) until First Vespers of Lent 5, again from the LLLPB.

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Here is an mp3 of the Vespers hymn, "Ecce tempus idoneum" ("Now is the healing time decreed"), sung each evening beginning on Oculi (Lent 3) until First Vespers of Lent 5, again from the LLLPB.

Lauds and Vespers Hymns, Lent 3 - Lent 4 bls 2008

If you'd like to actually listen to the Introits for which the Sundays of Lent are named (Invocavit, Oculi, Judica, etc.), you can do it here, at the Christusrex.org site, which features hundreds of mp3 files recorded at St. Benedict's Monastery in São Paulo (Brazil).

Archive 2008-02-01 bls 2008

Oculi is the first word of the Latin Introit for Lent 3: "Mine eyes."

Archive 2008-02-01 bls 2008