Candles for Candlemas
A light of Revelation to the Gentiles!
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Dr. Lucas Tappan is a conductor and organist whose specialty is working with children. He lives in Kansas with his wife and four children.—Read full biography (with photographs).
Watch the debut of Colin Mawby’s “Ave Maria” in Rome.
The greatest gift was to be in Rome during the Holy Year of Mercy!
Mr. Mawby emailed me two weeks after sending the music, saying he’d already purchased his plane ticket and would see us in Rome!
“God has no grandchildren. Every generation must be a first generation follower of Christ.”
Here is the entire set of lesson plans I use for training our Probationers.
Please, please don’t ever underestimate the power of good music to touch hearts in either the work of evangelization or catechesis.
I feel that solfege is the fastest and most secure route to establishing the scale and the way its notes function within that scale in the minds of singers.
If there are only two concepts you are able to instill in a child in the early stages regarding breathing, they would be 1) fill and empty the stomach with air just like a balloon (don’t use the chest) and 2) keep the shoulders down and relaxed.
Simply dive in and do it. Remember how quickly your children grew up and left home? That is all the longer it takes.
“This honest, magnanimous and public statement made my struggle totally worthwhile.” —Colin Mawby
At the end of the audition, most of the students experience a great sense of accomplishment and really consider it an honor to be accepted into the choir!
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We’re under tremendous pressure to transfer our website to a “subscription model.”
We don’t want to do this. We believe our website should remain free to all.
It’s annoying to have to search for login credentials (e.g. if you’re away from your desk).
Our president has written the following letter:
* Thirteen Men & Coins (Holy Thursday Appeal)
Traditionally on Holy Thursday, the priest washed the feet of thirteen men. Theologians held various opinions regarding whom the “13th man” represented. Before the liturgical changes of Pope Pius XII (which changed the number from thirteen to twelve), the priest washed each man’s feet, kissed his foot, and gave him a coin.
This “coin” business seems providential—inasmuch as our appeal begins on Holy Thursday this year.
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