Msgr. Knox • “Ten Commandments” for Crime Stories
Knox was a founding member of the “Detection Club,” which included Agatha Christie and G. K. Chesterton.
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PDF Download • “How To Serve Mass” (1651)
“Pausing a little, arise, make Adoration to the Sacrament, give the Pax to those present, observe Order of calling, and Years…”
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PBS • “Gregorian Chant at the Seminary”
At the time I’m posting, this video has 355 views—let’s see if we can raise that number!
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Final Sunday after Pentecost (4th in November)
“And from the fig-tree learn a parable: when the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.”
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PDF Download • “Evening Masses and Days of Obligation” (58 pages)
Permission has been given to post this marvelous 2016 dissertation by Fr. Shawn Tunink.
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“Simultaneous Fulfillment” of Mass Obligation?
Christmas falls on a Monday this year—but documentation shows “double dipping” is forbidden.
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PDF Download • Authentic Irish Hymnal (164 pages)
Imagine the amount of time required to typeset something like this!
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Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua…
“The heavens and the earth proclaim thy glory…”
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Choir Members Photograph
Do you take pictures of your choir? Photographs can serve as nice reminders of wonderful experiences.
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A Hymn That Just Keeps Popping Up
Bach’s music inhabits “a still and serious world…without color, without light, without motion” from which we cannot break away.
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“23rd” {repeat} Sunday after Pentecost (3rd in November)
“…and without parables He did not speak to them; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
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The Man Who Thrice Rejected Knighthood
Excerpt from a documentary on “St. Thomas More” (Paul Scofield) which in 1966 won six Oscars at the Academy Awards.
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SATB “Alleluia” (Fr. Morales) • for both OF and EF
This piece is perfect for “stealthily” adding polyphony to the Ordinary Form.
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Fulton J. Sheen • “Hints On Public Speaking”
We choirmasters are frequently called upon to speak in public.
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