To: Headmaster of Westminster Cathedral Choir School
Like the great Cathedral of Notre Dame, this daily musical offering belongs not only to the Church in London and the British Isles, but to the universal Church.
“A much greater source of anxiety to Us is the style of action of those who maintain that liturgical worship should shed its sacred character, who foolishly say we should substitute for sacred items & furnishings ordinary common things in daily use.” —Pope Saint Paul VI (14 Oct 1968)
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).
Like the great Cathedral of Notre Dame, this daily musical offering belongs not only to the Church in London and the British Isles, but to the universal Church.
We need to remember how small the amount of yeast is that is needed to leaven the dough.
I wonder if we haven’t lost sight of the cantor’s original purpose of fostering congregational singing…
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Be mindful of the immense power that you as a choir director having in orienting your choristers toward Heaven.
There are three areas that are especially helpful to be competent in when working with children.
In addition to great choir schools at our cathedrals, the Church needs grass roots programs like this throughout our parishes.
Young people today aren’t yearning for the ancient expressions of the Church’s liturgical life merely due to a distorted view of a supposedly golden former age…
We have all encountered these moments that sustain us along our pilgrim way and I assume the same could be said of all the Holy Martyrs.
“Being Evangelical Catholics requires that we know the Gospel, believe the Gospel, live the Gospel, and share the Gospel with others—and this begins and ends for us in the sacred liturgy…”
Since the Canon cannot be recited “silently” in the Ordinary Form, I wonder if chanting it might be one answer to the lack of transcendence we often encounter within Mass.
I thought today I would share with readers some of my impressions of the wonderful events that took place.
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