Fr. Carlo Rossini Is Wrong About “EU”
You can sleep soundly at night, knowing how to correctly pronounce “hagióque pnéumate.”
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“Sacred Vs. Secular Music” • Fr. John C. Selner
“…like man, Mary, you are IN—really cool among women.”
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Is Renaissance Music Too Expressive For Holy Mass?
“To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.”
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Church Needs “Disposable Art” Created To Last “Not Centuries, But Weeks (Or Hours).”
Fr. Robert W. Hovda argues that “Little Green Apples” can be sung during Mass.
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Musical Resources • 8th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
“The master in this Gospel is praising, not the wrongful act of the unfaithful steward, but the peculiar astuteness with which he makes friends who will be useful when things go amiss.” (Maredsous N. T.)
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Is Latin Impossible For Choirs?
When priests came into Bishop Trautman’s office asking permission, he would start speaking Latin to them.
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“Asperges Me” • Gregorian Chant
In the Extraordinary Form, the “Asperges Me” is only used on Sundays.
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1951 Solemn Pontifical Field Mass • With 100-Voice “Palestrina Cathedral Choir”
Following the Mass, Archbishop Joseph H. Schlarman was made an honorary Indian chief.
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SATB “Kyrie Eleison” • Henri Durieux
It’s extremely short and not difficult—yet fresh & gorgeous.
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The Day Fulton J. Sheen Made A Mistake
“Sheen told a friend of mine that anything he’d ever said of significance was taken from either Knox or Chesterton.” —Fr. George Rutler
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“You Will Now Feel These Interior Sentiments…”
Can you imagine a liturgical commentator standing at the front of Church declaring something like that?
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Musical Resources • 7th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.
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Beware Of Microphones!
My mother was present during that Mass and recorded some brief snippets on her iPhone.
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UGLY • Just Plain, Old-Fashioned Ugly
Have you noticed that contemporary music was not forced upon congregations the same way contemporary architecture was?
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Short, Fresh, & Beautiful • SATB “Ave Maris Stella”
This piece by Fr. Antonin Lhoumeau will knock your socks off!
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