Being Careful With Hymns
Each individual “ear” must decide what is acceptable.
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Interesting Points in this Sunday’s Offertory
Do you understand why I’ve highlighted various points?
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The “Long & Short” of Latin Hymns
Such underlay would be considered loathsome by composers like Guerrero. Indeed, it’s an impossibility!
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Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli in Cappa Magna
Anyone care to hazard a guess regarding why a blue biretta would have been used circa 1933?
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Does Your Bishop Enforce The GIRM?
They will assume—and why shouldn’t they?—that “approved by the USCCB” applies to the hymns and songs…
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Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?
“To the historian their decisions are disgusting nonsense that people of my kind want simply to ignore.” — Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1919)
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Letter To A Volunteer Choir…
The singers know their individual contribution is essential.
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Musical Resources • 11th Sunday after Pentecost
“…pour forth Thy mercy upon us, to take away from us those things which our conscience feareth…”
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Victoria Alleluia • Extraordinary & Ordinary Form
If your priest requires the congregation sing the “Alleluia,” there’s a nice way to do this.
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Musical Resources • 10th Sunday after Pentecost
“O God, Who dost chiefly manifest Thy power in forbearance and mercy…”
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PDF Download • St. Cecilia Hymnal (1937)
Like all the books we release, this extremely rare hymnal was previously unavailable until we scanned and uploaded it.
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Showdown in Arkansas over “Ad Orientem”
The Bishop of Little Rock has sent a letter (14 July 2016) forbidding his priests to celebrate Mass “ad orientem.”
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Musical Resources • 9th Sunday after Pentecost
“…and that Thou mayest grant their desires to them, make them ask only for things that please Thee…”
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Shocking Developments From Westminster
If Cardinal Nichols had simply sent a letter saying why he prefers “versus populum,” I believe that would have been a better choice.
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SATB “Agnus Dei” after Fr. Gregorio Allegri (d. 1652)
Without question, the most popular piece I ever “wrote.”
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