Solfege? There’s an app for that.
“Excuse me, I have to go work on my green belt.”
Archives for February 2015
Helping Your Deacon or Priest Learn the Exsultet
Singing the “Exsultet” can be intimidating! Six pages of endless notes and words? Here are some helpful tools.
Video • Padre Pio Celebrates Mass (5 May 1956)
You can hear Padre Pio singing the Mass.
Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Lent
The “Gloria in excelsis” is not said from Septuagesima Sunday until Easter, except on Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, & some special feasts.
Screenshots Proving “Versus Populum” Was Allowed By The 1572 Missal
A reader from Indonesia kindly sent us these…
“Salve Festa Dies” • SATB Choral Piece By Canon Jules Van Nuffel (d. 1953)
Who wouldn’t welcome this fresh & contemporary piece for Easter?
Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(5 of 7)
The practical end of formal approval.
Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(4 of 7)
This year one, a seminarian from our parish is being ordained. He requested that we sing the Propers for his first Mass.
PDF Download: Two (2) Rare Franciscan Chant Books
Many of these melodies cannot be easily found in any other book.
Pope Francis Condemned The Reform Of The Reform? Not Quite…
“Devout people are the ones who will be most disturbed by the new liturgy.” —Pope Paul VI (11/26/1969)
Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(3 of 7)
When the GIRM says “four options”, they really mean four preferences…
Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(2 of 7)
How modernism effects music and babies. And how UNICEF is like the Catholic Church.
Musical Resources • 1st Sunday of Lent
The “Gloria in excelsis” is not said from Septuagesima Sunday until Easter, except on Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, & some special feasts.
Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(1 of 7)
“Tacit approval” alone isn’t getting the job done. It is abdicating authority to composers and publishers, pastors and liturgists.
PDF Download: 1896 “Liber Usualis” • Extremely Rare
The book is 1,479 pages. The monastery of Solesmes certainly had a staggering output!