PDF Download • Exceedingly Rare! — “The Torn Tunic” (122 pages) … published in 1967
Is Tito Casini correct that vernacular plainsong is a “sin against nature?”
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“Our Trials” • Choirmaster Crosses
How can we experience peace of soul when most people don’t even understand the mental trauma we deal with?
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PDF Download • “Easter Sunday Introit”
In accordance with the official edition.
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“Music List” • Holy Thursday
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for Maundy Thursday.
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PDF Download • “Communion” (Holy Thursday)
Its verses are quite beautiful.
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“Ubi Caritas” • Knox Translation (1950s)
What a treasure!
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“Music List” • Palm Sunday
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
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PDF Download • “Offertory” (Palm Sunday)
Some believe that “joyful” texts sound happy in Gregorian Chant and “sad” texts sound mournful.
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“And the Chief Priests…” (Palm Sunday)
“And the chief priests made a plot against Lazarus’ life too…”
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“Articles for Bulletin” • Saint Mary’s in Muskegon
This series is for Saint Mary’s in Muskegon.
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Re: The “Restoration” of the Easter Vigil
It’s a strange type of “restoration” that rejoices over innovations that never existed before.
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Yesterday’s Offertory • ‘Live’ by 2 Young Women
A large choir isn’t necessary to have dignified music at Mass.
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The 1970s Liturgical Wasteland
“In a sense we need ‘disposable’ music, created to last not centuries, but weeks (or hours).” —Father Hovda
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“Reader Feedback” • 7 April 2025
A reader in Poland writes…
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“Music List” • 5th Sunday of Lent
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
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