Archives for July 2015

Richard J. Clark · July 31, 2015

Personal Issues Manifested in the Mass

Personal tensions can rise to the highest boiling point during Mass and no other place.
Why is this? As it turns out, there’s a pretty interesting reason.

Dr. Lucas Tappan · July 30, 2015

A Few More Thoughts on the Chorister Audition

At the end of the audition, most of the students experience a great sense of accomplishment and really consider it an honor to be accepted into the choir!

Jeff Ostrowski · July 30, 2015

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen On Gregorian Chant

“I did my best to give utterance to all those black notes in the missal.” —Fulton J. Sheen

Andrew Leung · July 29, 2015

The Anglican can dress anything up?

Recently, I came across a video of a Anglican boys’ choir singing Dan Schutte’s “Here I am Lord”…

Jeff Ostrowski · July 29, 2015

Musical Resources • 10th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)

The recessional is bright, happy, and beautiful.

Aurelio Porfiri · July 29, 2015

“When You See Rome, You Will Lose Your Faith.”

Only the blind can avoid facing this reality: the biggest liturgical crisis is in Rome.

Jeff Ostrowski · July 28, 2015

A Most Devastating Change By Pope Paul VI

“We strongly resent the implication that we and our children are not sufficiently intelligent to understand the simple Latin of the Mass…” —Manifesto of the Catholic Laity (1943)

Fr. David Friel · July 27, 2015

The Church of Our Savior

And the Case of the Vanishing Icons

Jeff Ostrowski · July 27, 2015

Why It’s Pointless To Argue Over Our Roman Missal Translation

“Women forced to sell their bodies in desperation and fear” —From a 2013 GIA hymnal

Fr. David Friel · July 26, 2015

The thing that stands out is the enormous breadth of the Church Universal. Through all times, all places, all languages this Mystical Body of Christ is alive and drawing men to God. What other religious tradition can even come close?

Jeff Ostrowski · July 24, 2015