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.
“What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too…” Pope Benedict XVI (7 July 2007)
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.
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!
“I did my best to give utterance to all those black notes in the missal.” —Fulton J. Sheen
Recently, I came across a video of a Anglican boys’ choir singing Dan Schutte’s “Here I am Lord”…
The recessional is bright, happy, and beautiful.
Only the blind can avoid facing this reality: the biggest liturgical crisis is in Rome.
“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)
“Women forced to sell their bodies in desperation and fear” —From a 2013 GIA hymnal
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?
A collection of English Eucharistic motets published by Heath Morber and Ben Yanke
Amazing! Verdelot’s cadence here sounds quite modern!
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.
You can sleep soundly at night, knowing how to correctly pronounce “hagióque pnéumate.”
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.
People should not be coming to Mass for the emotional high
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