Principles for Creating Chant for the Vernacular
David Clayton shares free resources and instruction for adapting Latin chant to English.
Homily: 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
A homily by Fr. Valentine Young, OFM.
Why the Church Is Dying in Latin America
“We need to realize that beauty is essential to any true notion of progress and human development.”
Monsignor Francis P. Schmitt—“Put Out To Pastor”
An in depth article about Monsignor Francis P. Schmitt by Andy Baumert.
Review by Fr. Justin Nolan, FSSP
“Many parishioners have told me their children especially love following the Mass in this missal because the pictures are so delightful.”
On Singing the Passion Gospel for Palm Sunday
This Lent, consider singing the most important Gospel reading of the year. “Free PDF Download Included!”
Catholic Youth Choir Releases CD, Prepares For Tour
The Blackstone Valley Catholic Youth Choir, currently preparing for a mid-Atlantic tour, has released a new CD, “Clothed With the Sun.”
The Ordinariness of White
Perhaps we are de-sensitized to the symbol, but the color representing the liturgical feast we celebrate today is in fact one of great importance.
“In Medio Ecclesiae” Album Release
The Dominican House of Studies schola has just released its first album, In Medio Ecclesiae, under the aegis of the newly founded Dominicana Records. The album is available now for download at www.dominicanablog.com/records; CD purchase coming soon.
Impressive New Hymnal for the Divine Office
A guest article by Br. Dominic Verner O.P.
New Gregorian Chant Project Needs Your Support!
Chant is beautiful, stunning, transcendent. Yet do we really know how it sounded centuries ago? Can we, by carefully listening, appreciate the differences between the modes?
The first ever Graduale Romanum in English?
Deacon Cunningham was responsible for an early effort to “English” the Roman Gradual, as Msgr. Schmitt would say.
Thousands of Gospel Acclamations for Organ & Voice
A word and a request regarding the musical arrangements by Jon Naples on the Garnier Gospel Acclamations website.
Music Delivered A Young Boy From Dispair
“My father had no job and a daily passion for beer. The situation was hopeless for both him and his seven children. When I was 11 years old, Catholic Charities intervened. They split us up, and sent five of us kids to foster homes, and my older brother Mike and I to Boys Town.”
Responsorial Psalms & Gospel Acclamations
“It is true that the use of the ancient psalm tones for texts in English has been a matter of recent debate, some asserting that it is not possible to fit the cadences of the Gregorian tones . . .”