A Short Piece We’re Singing For Lent
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with one of the smartest Catholic priests alive.
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“Sarum Rite” • Did it exist? What is it?
“To contrast Ancient Sarum with Modern Roman is absurd.” —Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1912)
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Offensive Music in Germany • Ash Wednesday (2019)
Have you ever seen a liturgical “instrument” like this?
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“The New Mass” • Discussed by Michael Davies, Malachi Martin, Msgr. Champlin, and William F. Buckley
Fascinating debate recorded 22 April 1980.
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“Lacuna” • An Actual One—Not A Fake One
Read these entries—and then tell me your head isn’t spinning!
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PDF • “Additional Versions of the Credo” (1934)
This morning, fascinating versions of the Credo arrived in my inbox—versions I had never seen!
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When You Go To Mass … Be This Guy!
Bringing a falcon to Mass never crossed my mind…
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An Outrageous “Paradox” I Cannot Accept
I’m not someone who believes everything was perfect before Vatican II—but calling the EF “worldly” compared to the OF is just silly.
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Update! • Accompaniments for the Brébeuf Hymnal
Oh, if only…if only you knew what’s going on behind the scenes!
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Breaking! • Father Edwin C. Dwyer Development?
Did Bishop A. Hurley have a change of heart?
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“Your Choirmaster” • What Nobody Realizes
Do you see the part where it specifically asks for humiliation?
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When Hymn Names Don’t Match
I submit to you that calling the same tune by multiple names in the same hymnal is unacceptable.
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PDF Download • “Chant Service Book” (208 pages)
An extremely rare book from 1941, containing all your favorite Gregorian chants!
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2nd Sunday after Epiphany • Saint Vitus Parish (LA)
“New evidence of wondrous pow’r | Behold in Cana’s marriage-dow’r; | Swift its own nature to resign, | The water blushes into wine.” —Msgr. Knox
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Bishop Barron Vs. Hymn by Marty Haugen (2018)
“Heaven is not light-years away; that’s a silly way to think about it.” —Most Rev’d Robert Barron
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