The Turns at Benediction
To the Right or to the Left?
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
Ordained in 2011, Father Friel served as Parochial Vicar at Saint Anselm Church in Northeast Philly before earning a doctorate in liturgical theology at The Catholic University of America. He presently serves as Vocation Director for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.—(Read full biography).
The Pope Emeritus presents church music as something central to life.
Two course offerings from the St. Cecilia Academy for Pastoral Musicians
David Bentley Hart’s experiment in recovering the conceptual vocabulary of a distant
Invoking Mater Ecclesiae in a new annual feast
“Let us not lose this time…for we can hardly tell whether we will ever get in to church again or not.” —St. Thomas More
A summer conference at The Liturgical Institute in Mundelein, IL
Dates for the next Sacra Liturgia conference have just been announced.
Three new choral works featured during this celebration on 13 October 2017.
Liturgical Evidence from Marriage Rituals throughout History
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