Sacred Music As Entertainment
The reason we have a choir in the church is for our entertainment at Mass, right?
Archives for July 2014
Why Did Nobody Inform Me That Latin Was Abolished?
“The request freaked the Deacon out, and, through sweat, he answered that the Council had abolished Latin.”
Pope Francis on Sound Doctrine, Memory, and Adoration
“One of the most common canards now broadcast is that Pope Francis cares but little for the sacred liturgy…”
“Pope Francis Hymn Book” … (Published 2014)
The Pope Francis Hymn Book consists of all the hymns from the Vatican II Hymnal, plus an additional forty-five new hymns
Free PDF Download: Complete Gospel Acclamations (172 pages) • Le Moyne & Le Jeune
Download the entire book for free or purchase the beautiful book (spiral-bound).
CMAA Colloquium and Hoosier Hospitality
People should always be valued more than systems, and so it was with this gathering.
Priests Embarrassed To Wear Distinctive Garb
Boy … what a difference a true leader makes!
Remembering Cardinal Virgilio Noè
If you think that he did not care, as many prelates, about who and what was playing, you would be “hugely wrong.”
A 1969 Quote Bugnini Wishes He Could Retract
“Hundreds of millions of Catholics can now pray to God in their own languages and not in meaningless sounds…” — Annibale Bugnini
Colloquium Roundup
How to Experience Colloquium XXIV Belatedly and From Afar
Family Von Trapp & Celebration “Versus Populum”
Is the Trapp Family priest saying Mass “facing the people” in the 1930s?
What Should Female Lectors Wear At Mass?
Not one shred of iconographical evidence contradicts the alb as being a priestly vestment.
Pope Benedict XVI Reveals Why He Issued Summorum Pontificum on 7 July 2007
“A community is calling into question its very being when it suddenly declares its holiest and highest possession to be strictly forbidden … Can it be trusted any more about anything else?”
Homily: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
“The wonderful thing about Jesus and His teaching is that it is within the grasp of everyone.”
Colloquium Update IV
The Glories of A Single Proper
