PDF Download: Standard Catholic Hymnal (1921)
This extremely rare Catholic hymn book is here made available for the first time ever as a PDF download.
Musical Resources • Second Sunday after Epiphany
It’s hard to imagine a more beautiful text than Sedulius’ Hymn: Hostis Herodes Impie.
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Hypocrisy About Francis From An Unlikely Source
Resist the temptation to believe that Francis is 80,000 times as important as Benedict since he receives 80,000 times as much media coverage.
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PDF Download: Notre Dame Hymn Tune Book (1905)
“They call me a Papist and they laugh at my creed…”
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Cristóbal de Morales Missa “Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La.”
You’ll want to immediately download these scores, videos, and Mp3 files!
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PDF Download: Rare Hymnal By Boston’s Archbishop
Can you imagine singing all those vernacular hymns while Mass is happening?
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Short And Simple Organ Postludes & Preludes
Many of you asked me to share the results, which I have done below.
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Musical Resources • Holy Family
Many don’t realize that all the EF chants for the Holy Family can be used at OF—cf. section 397 of the Ordo Cantus Missæ.
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“The best I have ever seen. Anywhere. In the world. Period.” —Mr. John Sonnen
“The vitality of the Classical Rite is as fresh as ever.”
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Rare Photograph: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen With Father Joseph Ratzinger in 1965
Archbishop Sheen said nary a word about any liturgical reforms following the Council.
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Was Fulton J. Sheen Ever Wrong?
There’s a discrepancy in this Sunday’s EF Introit.
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Why Didn’t Anyone Stop This?
Here is an except from a Church bulletin published in December of 2014.
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Organ Processionals & Postludes: Suggestions Needed
“So many of the wonderful Preludes & Fugues by Bach—as splendid as they are—do not work as Processional pieces: they’re simply too long.”
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Reflections On Marty Haugen’s “Mass Of Creation” (Revised Version)
Before the revision, Haugen’s Gloria “worked” much better, but I still had serious reservations about it.
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Musical Resources • Most Holy Name Of Jesus
…including a special PDF version (Singer + Organist) of “Corde Natus ex Parentis.”
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