Addams Family Theme Song … At Mass?
Is it really true that any style of music can be lawfully used at Mass?
Archives for October 2013
1945 Vernacular Mass Card (German)
I always enjoy seeing “participation aids” from days of old …
“Let My Prayer Rise Like Incense”
It is often said that the earthly liturgy is a participation in the heavenly liturgy. Alas, in many cases this doesn’t fit in with our actual experiences, but there are exceptions. This past summer, heaven visited me in that way.
Ron Paul & Pope Francis
A Catholic bishop once said to me: “One of the greatest proofs of the truth of Christianity is the fact that the Church is still here in spite of the incompetence and villainy of her frail priests and all-too-human bishops.”
Bishop Dominique Rey (Fréjus-Toulon) visits Texas
Most Reverend Bishop Dominique Rey recently held a special conference about the Sacred Liturgy called “Sacra Liturgia 2013.”
Laws of life
A brief post about basic liturgical theology.
“It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.”
I took Latin in school, and one day someone asked me, “Did you know that in the Middle Ages the Mass used to be in Latin?” I thought, “I wish that still happened, somewhere on earth.”
Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #37
I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”
Bugnini: the word Alleluia is a “meaningless sound”
It is simply incorrect to say that a “black hole” existed from 600AD until 1965 (when the vernacular was introduced) during which Catholics were not truly adoring God at Mass.
Pope Francis in Context
Teach the Beauty of God’s Ways
Pedagogy, propers and psalm tones
While psalm tones are comparatively simple, understanding and singing them is still a learned skill. Here are some psalm toned settings of two upcoming Sundays.
Stress, Low Pay, and ‘That Finger of Jesus’
“That finger of Jesus, pointing at Matthew. That’s me. I feel like him. Like Matthew…It is the gesture of Matthew that strikes me: he holds on to his money as if to say, ‘No, not me! No, this money is mine.’
The Blessing of Animals
What’s the Purpose?
Catholicism, the Persecuted Religion
Modern people can tolerate almost anything except a person’s being, or becoming, a Catholic.
Bishop René H. Gracida • Golden Jubilee Homily
“I was a late vocation. There were twelve men ordained in my class. All of them were twenty-six years old at ordination. I was thirty-six … ten years late.” — Bishop René H. Gracida (2010)