“Reminder” — Month of October (2025)
Since a new month has arrived, it’s my pleasure to remind you that…
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“American Catholic Hymnal” (1991)
This one book contains and memorializes every horrible idea from the 1980s.
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Involving Women in the Communion?
Not long ago, I received a weird telephone call from a man appointed “director of music” for a large USA diocese.
“Music List” • 27th in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
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Kids’ Choir Sings Thomas Aquinas
Last Sunday, a children’s choir I’m teaching sang with us for the first time.
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Prex • Particularly Powerful
“O God, who dost mend what is shattered, and what thou hast mended, ever dost preserve…”
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Good News From The Vatican
This concerns you!
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“Music List” • 26th in Ordinary Time (Year C)
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
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“Reminder” — Month of September (2025)
It’s my pleasure to remind you that…
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PDF Download • Communion (26th Sn. Ord.)
This Communion antiphon sparkles with beauty.
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PDF Download • “Hymn by Father Thomas à Kempis” (arranged for 2 voices)
For the upcoming feast on 9 November (which replaces the Sunday Mass).
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“Canonic” • Ralph Vaughan Williams
This is quite a clever arrangement of “Come down, O love divine.”
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Did they simplify these hymn harmonies?
Looking through a (Roman Catholic) German hymnal printed in 1952…
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Can You Identify This “Mystery” Hymn Tune?
Kevin Allen is currently in France.
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PDF Download • “Side-By-Side Comparison”
Re: the special hymn for the upcoming feast (9 November).
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