Rehearsal Videos • “O Magnum Mysterium” (Victoria)
With a masterpiece like this, we must be careful not to rush in where angels fear to tread.
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
With a masterpiece like this, we must be careful not to rush in where angels fear to tread.
“Gather ye together His Saints to Him; who have set His covenant before sacrifices…”
A young foundress who continues to sing with her congregations around the world and how this underlines the power of the liturgy.
At my funeral, please pray for my soul. Please don’t “celebrate my life” (do that after…) or “celebrate my resurrection.” Pray.
Registration is now open for the CMAA Winter Sacred Music Workshop in Houston
This blog post is about a four-year-old who behaves at Mass and how the Extraordinary Form allows a father to learn to behave better at Mass.
Mr. Mawby emailed me two weeks after sending the music, saying he’d already purchased his plane ticket and would see us in Rome!
Sometimes it takes decades to appreciate the genius of this or that Gregorian chant.
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We’re under tremendous pressure to transfer our website to a “subscription model.”
We don’t want to do this. We believe our website should remain free to all. It’s annoying to have to search for login credentials (e.g. if you’re away from your desk).
Our president has written the following letter:
* Thirteen Men & Coins (Holy Thursday Appeal)
Traditionally on Holy Thursday, the priest washed the feet of thirteen men. Theologians held various opinions regarding whom the “13th man” represented. Before the liturgical changes of Pope Pius XII (which changed the number from thirteen to twelve), the priest washed each man’s feet, kissed his foot, and gave him a coin.
This “coin” business seems providential—inasmuch as our appeal begins on Holy Thursday this year.
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