How Does One Use The Ordo Cantus Missæ?
The second half of an article about the most important book you’ve never seen.
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“Missale Romanum Cum Lectionibus Ad Usum Fidelium”
Gone forever? “A portable Latin missal which contains everything said or read at Mass.”
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Photograph of Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt
Photograph of “Father Schmitt” of Boys Town taken during the 1950s.
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Were You An Altar Boy In The 1960s?
Do you recall trying to memorize the “Confiteor” and the dreaded “Suscipiat” to serve at Mass?
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“I Love Ewe”
“The altar versus populum is not a new idea brought in by the reforms of Paul VI. The Mass could always be celebrated with the priest facing the people, as indeed it was in Rome and in many other places for centuries. True, it was not the usual way, but it did exist.” — Monsignor Richard J. Schuler
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Should The Priest Face The People At Mass?
“In the encyclical Mediator Dei, Pius XII regarded as ‘archeologists those who presumed to speak of the altar as a simple table.” — Newsletter of the Vatican Congregation of Divine Worship.
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Never Do This. Just Say “No.”
Ruth Slenczynska wasn’t right about everything … but she was right about this.
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The Founding Of Corpus Christi Watershed
Imagine my astonishment to see the date assigned to us by the State of Texas back in 2006!
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The Organ Book of Adrian Fortescue
Charles Cole has saved me a trip!
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Something We Humans Detest: Hypocrisy!
“Members of this American liturgical/musical establishment continually boast about their flexibility and sensitivity, but they are in fact the most rigid and insensitive of the Church’s members, especially if one has the temerity to challenge them, their policies, their processes, or their programs.” — Paul Le Voir (1993)
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Pavane for a Dead Princess — Maurice Ravel
One thing I’ve wanted to do for years is write about the Jesuit Martyrs of North America and share their stories with the world. I have failed.
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Bishop Fulton Sheen & Mass in Vietnamese
More than 100,000 persons saw and heard Church history in the making as Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York celebrated the first Pontifical Mass ever said in English.
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Why are the Psalms numbered differently?
Why don’t the Psalm numbers match? This 1-page, printable PDF sheet will show you clearly the difference between the Greek and Hebrew numbering systems.
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Madeleine Lipatti & The Chopin Concerto Scandal
“One more reason to hate Wagner!”
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A Tale Of Three Cities
“Do not seek to follow in the master’s footsteps. Seek what he sought.”
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