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Just because I’m aware of something that happened in the past doesn’t mean I endorse it.
The marketing and commercialization of sacred music has had vastly mixed results, some positive, but some deleterious.
I could feel that this Glory was immense, and mysterious, and real. But I could not quite grasp what that meant for me or what I should even do about it.
I have sometimes been told that I was “performing” in the Liturgy, and this has made me think about the meaning of this term and why people say it…
The Brébeuf hymnal collection is now complete—and it’s truly revolutionary!
“The Catholic tradition cannot be that of any special school, either ancient or modern…” —Abbot Pothier
I took a few pictures during our Sunday Mass…
The Litany of St Joseph in Latin chant with an English translation.
I have a bad habit of getting frustrated when choir members take a long time to learn a particular interval or entrance. But this can be “cured.” It was cured a few weeks ago, when I made a mistake. I was supposed to go down a minor third, but instead I went down a perfect […]
Please keep Fr. Valentine in your prayers—thank you!
The Book of Kells, as well as 150,000 artworks housed in Parisian museums, can be freely viewed online.
The Antiphon for First Vespers of the Feast of the Purification (February 2nd) is beautiful: “The old man carried the Child, but it was the Child who was guiding the old man. The Virgin bore the Child, and after child-bearing was virgin still: whom she bore, him she adored.” —Senex púerum portábat, puer autem senem […]
The organ postlude is a powerful way to cultivate dispositions of rejoicing, thanksgiving, and awe before the greatness of God at the conclusion of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
When we consider the redemptive power of the Mass, our eyes, hearts, and minds are opened wide!
I had one brother who was out of the church for quite a few years. When my mother was asked, “Did she worry about him?” I remember her answer: “I don’t worry about him; I just pray for him.” She left that in God’s hands. My mother did not live to see her son return […]
