13th Anniversary of “Summorum Pontificum”
“The cemeteries are filled……”
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“A blast from the past”
Consilium document (“Instantibus Pluribus”) to presidents of the national liturgical commissions, on norms for translation of the Graduale Simplex, dated 23 January 1968: “The types of chant in the Graduale Simplex may be adapted to the style of music and song typical of individual peoples. But any sort of secular or profane melody is excluded.”
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PDF Download • 1928 “Invitatory” (86 pages)
The “invitatory” occurs at the beginning of Matins and therefore introduces the daily divine Office.
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“Homily — 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
“Often, the person who did us harm won’t even know that we’re still stewing over what they did to us; and if they knew, they might even be glad.”
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Jeff Ostrowski • “Three Rules For Good Music”
But we have not spoken very much about Baroque music…
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Important Message To Fathers
“Kids don’t remember this…”
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(Installment #6) “Catholic Hymnals” • Jeff Ostrowski
How to avoid that sickening feeling when you realize nobody—and I mean nobody—in the congregation knows the hymn you picked!
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“Homily for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
“If worry did any good, I would advise you to do it—but it is wasted time and energy.”
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Sir Richard Terry: Hymns, Congregational Singing, and Avoiding “Violence” to the Elders
Terry was forced to resign from the Cathedral in 1924, partially due to his “inconsistent approach to congregational singing at the Cathedral.”
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3 September 2020 • Tausig, Liszt’s student
When Polish virtuoso Carl Tausig died in 1871 at the age of thirty, Franz Liszt said to Anton Rubinstein: “Now there are only two of us left in the world.” Liszt had sent Tausig to Richard Wagner, who wrote as follows: You have given me great pleasure with little Tausig. […] He is a terrible […]
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“That Image” from World War II • Further Questions
When I look more closely, I notice some very tiny (“itsy bitsy”) hand missals held by the soldiers…
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WW2 post at 3:30am = 10k views?
The internet is a very strange thing. I have spent hundreds of hours on certain articles—usually about hymn voice leading—and they get virtually no attention. But last night at 3:30AM I posted an image from WW2 from 9 April 1944 (showing a priest saying Mass with soldiers) and it was viewed 10,000 times on the […]
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Holy Mass During World War II • (9 April 1944)
German troops included in American Easter Sunday Mass via loud-speaker.
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PDF Download • “Communion Antiphon” (with organ accompaniment)
An exciting new project gives me great hope for the “musical future” of the Catholic Church!
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“Homily — 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
“Examining the life of Jesus, we discover that He acted differently in different circumstances.”
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