Is It Time To Stop Singing The Propers?
I know how difficult it can be to introduce chant to a Novus Ordo parish.
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Dr. Alfred Calabrese is a conductor, educator, composer, scholar, and church musician. Having worked in academia for two decades, he felt called to enter full-time work in the Catholic Church, and since 2007 has directed the music at Saint Rita Catholic Church. He and his wife live in Dallas, TX. They have two grown children. —Read full biography (with photographs).

I know how difficult it can be to introduce chant to a Novus Ordo parish.
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On the ground in our parishes and in our choirs is where the truth lies. Let us not retreat.

I started to realize how little time we spend thinking about these things…

Grown up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.

Let’s not make this about ourselves.

Thank you, Senator Feinstein!

Josquin surely belongs in the pantheon of history’s most important composers.

Adults with an agenda teach children their own biases.

My daughter freaked out when I told her this.

Does Lent really put people in a bad mood?
The weekly school Mass may be the only Mass some students ever attend.

I don’t think young people (or most people, frankly) are drawn to the pre-conciliar Mass because of nostalgia.

Art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

These things must begin at the parish level.

The richness of liturgy and music should never be abandoned.
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