The Real Reason We Sing
Let’s not make this about ourselves.
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
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).
Josquin surely belongs in the pantheon of history’s most important composers.
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.
The richness of liturgy and music should never be abandoned.
A tremendously exciting moment in the Catholic musical world!
The public singing of Vespers is an antidote to the kind of clericalism frequently condemned by Pope Francis.
The Church has its own language and its own culture. Are you a native speaker?
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