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.
Archives for July 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!
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
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”…
Musical Resources • 10th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
The recessional is bright, happy, and beautiful.
“When You See Rome, You Will Lose Your Faith.”
Only the blind can avoid facing this reality: the biggest liturgical crisis is in Rome.
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)
The Church of Our Savior
And the Case of the Vanishing Icons
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
Vesting Prayers • Part 4 of 8
The Alb
Why it’s great to be Catholic
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?
Pope Pius XI and “Concelebration”
Can anyone shed light on this?
Review • Bread from Heaven
A collection of English Eucharistic motets published by Heath Morber and Ben Yanke
Polyphony (SATB) By Verdelot • With Optional Hymn “Christe Supreme”
Amazing! Verdelot’s cadence here sounds quite modern!
The “Little Rock Nine” & Sacred Music
How could closing down all the schools be a good plan?
Musical Resources • 9th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.
Fr. Carlo Rossini Is Wrong About “EU”
You can sleep soundly at night, knowing how to correctly pronounce “hagióque pnéumate.”
Fr. Robert E. Barron To Be Made A Bishop!
Three new auxiliary bishops for Los Angeles!
Should Children Have To Audition?
There is a proper balance between an impossibly hard formal audition and the usual “any child can join” policy that exists in the typical parish children’s choir.
Videos • Bishop-Elect Robert Barron on the Liturgy
People should not be coming to Mass for the emotional high