PDF Download: Rare Hymnal By Boston’s Archbishop
Can you imagine singing all those vernacular hymns while Mass is happening?
“A much greater source of anxiety to Us is the style of action of those who maintain that liturgical worship should shed its sacred character, who foolishly say we should substitute for sacred items & furnishings ordinary common things in daily use.” —Pope Saint Paul VI (14 Oct 1968)
Can you imagine singing all those vernacular hymns while Mass is happening?
You’ll want to immediately download these scores, videos, and Mp3 files!
Does the 1967 Instruction on Music in the Liturgy have any relevance today?
Is being a church musician the lowest musical aspiration possible? Or the Highest?
Many of you asked me to share the results, which I have done below.
“The vitality of the Classical Rite is as fresh as ever.”
Many don’t realize that all the EF chants for the Holy Family can be used at OF—cf. section 397 of the Ordo Cantus Missæ.
Here is an except from a Church bulletin published in December of 2014.
Sometimes I wish people didn’t have so many opinions about the liturgy.
Archbishop Sheen said nary a word about any liturgical reforms following the Council.
“So many of the wonderful Preludes & Fugues by Bach—as splendid as they are—do not work as Processional pieces: they’re simply too long.”
Today’s installment is a rare image of our Lord’s Resurrection.
Recorded for Vatican Radio with organist Aurelio Porfiri. Conducted by Sister Dolores Aguirre.
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