PDF Download: Hymns of the Dominican Missal & Breviary • Fr. Aquinas Byrnes (1943)
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PDF Download: Order of Mass (Latin & English) printed in THE CROWN HYMNAL of 1911.

“The faith of many was quite infantile, I would say.” —Paul Inwood, talking about preconciliar Catholics

6 December 2014 interview with Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke by GloriaTV.

Including “Creator Alme Siderum” with English Translation by Rev. Adrian Fortescue.

Even the “Liber Usualis” omits critical information about Tone VIII.

For myself, I prefer the liturgy entirely in Latin or entirely in the vernacular. Others will disagree.

Major publishers include Haugen’s verse “not in some heaven, light-years away”—what can be done about it?

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“I’m not one of those Novus Ordo = bad, Tridentine = good people…” —Carlos de Quesado

Colin Mawby, former Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, travels to Rome in this video, letting you see an original manuscript of Palestrina.

The phrase “ad populum conversus” does appear in the postconciliar books, and no amount of polemical articles can change this fact.

Priests often unknowingly drift into another tone, which is not allowed.

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