Guest Article: “Why That Hymn Doesn’t Work”
Twelve Criteria to Help Explain Yourself
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Twelve Criteria to Help Explain Yourself

Praising our Extraordinary God in the Ordinary Form

A guest article by Dr. Virginia A. Schubert.

A guest article by Mr. Michael Chan, who lives in Hong Kong.

Are you an entrepreneur?

A guest article by Fr. Valentine Young, OFM

Daniel Craig’s review with a “signs of the times” digression.

Including an update on wonderful things happening for Sacred Music in Colorado!

…including recent documentation from the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy (USCCB).

“The more closely a composition approaches the Gregorian melodic form, the more sacred it becomes.”

“Dom Beauduin realised that the singing of psalms and the reading of the Scriptures in divine worship is the greatest bond between Catholics and Protestants.” —Fr. Mark Woodruff

“After six months and 70+ letters, I received a letter from the chairman of Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy.” —Dan Craig

“If Christians want me to believe in their god, they will have to sing me better hymns.” —Nietzsche

“I regretted the loss of the beautiful Latin cadences and sonorous chant but appreciated the understanding brought by the English translation…” —Thomas Riplinger

It might just be my imagination, but isn’t the John Lennon’s “So this is Christmas” the same as that Alleluia?
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