Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 6
You will not make progress at your parish unless you understand Pope Benedict’s “Unbelievably Big Kite” theory.
Diary of Cardinal Antonelli (1964): “How Exactly Should The Vatican II Mass Look?”
If Pope Pius V or Gregory the Great were to come back, they ought to see that the Mass after Vatican II has substantially remained the same.” — Secretary of the Consilium
Three Painless Ways To Begin Singing Propers … Without Losing Your Job
A peritus of the Council once suggested that certain parties detest the Mass Propers because they’re almost impossible to “hijack” with heterodox theology.
Inaccurate Statements About Translations Of The Mass Propers (A Pet Peeve)
The quickest way to make this clear to a skeptical priest or liturgist is to request that they bring you some Offertory antiphons from MR3. (They don’t exist!)
PDF Download: “Propers” by A. Edmonds Tozer and “Propers” by Father Theodore Labouré
“The law of the Church plainly declares that, whenever High Mass is celebrated, the Proper of the Mass must be sung or at least recited.” — Fr. Labouré (1922)
The Real Trouble With Missalettes
Did you catch that last quotation? “Unless proper readings are given.” What does that passage mean?
Benjamin Franklin Composed A String Quartet
Why must the music at Wedding receptions be blasted at such a deafening volume? What can be done?
WLP Vice President Mentions The Jogues Missal (Without Realizing It)
“I am desperately trying to understand how what I experienced yesterday is not a separate rite.” — Dr. Jerry Galipeau
Priests Embarrassed To Wear Distinctive Garb
Boy … what a difference a true leader makes!
A 1969 Quote Bugnini Wishes He Could Retract
“Hundreds of millions of Catholics can now pray to God in their own languages and not in meaningless sounds…” — Annibale Bugnini
Family Von Trapp & Celebration “Versus Populum”
Is the Trapp Family priest saying Mass “facing the people” in the 1930s?
What Should Female Lectors Wear At Mass?
Not one shred of iconographical evidence contradicts the alb as being a priestly vestment.
Pope Benedict XVI Reveals Why He Issued Summorum Pontificum on 7 July 2007
“A community is calling into question its very being when it suddenly declares its holiest and highest possession to be strictly forbidden … Can it be trusted any more about anything else?”
Bishop Conley Sings “Salve Regina” With A Whole Pack Of Bishops
How often do you see a whole bunch of bishops sitting around singing the Salve Regina?
Why On Earth Would Anyone Do This?
Am I a hypocrite?
