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if St. Augustine was right and “singing belongs to the one who loves,” then it behooves us to once again learn to love and thereby take up the Church’s eternal hymn of praise.
The Psalter, as Esolen notes, is the prayer book of the Church and the Psalms constitute the “foundational poems of Christian praise.”
Point us once again to God Who is Beauty Itself!
Along the “via pulchritudinis” (the way of beauty) they will come to know Him Who is Beauty itself.
I told Cardinal Burke that is was a blessing for us to sing for the Mass and assured him of our prayers.
Beauty will return to the Sacred Liturgy when we once again turn our hearts to the Lord.
A misguided belief states that the quality of our liturgical music should be sacrificed on the altar of good intentions.
Children can and should be taught Gregorian chant by hearing and repeating—but this binds them to singing only what they have memorized.
I think we can slay the current and popular belief that by making the liturgy, and by extension liturgical music, “relevant” to people we will somehow bring them back to God.
Keep the flame of the true Christmas spirit burning brightly and carol to your heart’s content.
It’s hard to implement a program of truly sacred music, focused on the Lord, when so many of our Masses and other services are celebrated as if God were a side note…
Unfortunately we live in a society in which parents can no longer allow the culture to help form their children, and in most instances are forced to fight such an un-cultural leviathan.
If Christmas day arrives and you haven’t been to confession, your daily prayer has suffered, and you haven’t eaten supper with your family at least five nights a week during Advent, you’re in too far.
Msgr. Marini recently spoke to a group of Italian musicians as part of a choral festival.
I also want to say “thank you” to all of you who play the organ during the sacred liturgy. We owe you a great song of gratitude!
