Five Things Directors and Choirs Must Remember This Week
You may forever change the lives of someone you do not know in ways you will never know.
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St. Joseph, Fatherhood, and Inclusive Language
This is a hot-button topic I should not touch with a 100-foot pole. But what is not at debate is the inclusive nature of the message of the Gospel.
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Simply Stunning | Sacred Music of Paul Jernberg
A simply stunning “Salve Regina” and the “Mass of Saint Philip Neri”
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Pope Francis and “recovering the allure of beauty”
If the priest is “excessively” focused on the rubrics “…I do not enter into the mystery” “…if I am a showman, the protagonist” of the Mass, “then I do not enter into the mystery” either.
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Helping Your Deacon or Priest Learn the Exsultet
Singing the “Exsultet” can be intimidating! Six pages of endless notes and words? Here are some helpful tools.
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Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(1 of 7)
“Tacit approval” alone isn’t getting the job done. It is abdicating authority to composers and publishers, pastors and liturgists.
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Choir Rehearsal Is Prayer
It is quite possible we won’t get to sing the music we rehearsed — a problem everyone in Boston is facing this Sunday. But choir rehearsal itself is a prayer.
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World Day for Consecrated Life and Leadership from the Laity
Priests and musicians need each other and must mutually support each other. Both are immersed in the work of the liturgy, the most important act of evangelization.
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Liturgy of the Word and Paraphrasing the Responsorial Psalm
Would a lector paraphrase a reading from Isaiah or Paul? Would a deacon or priest change the words while proclaiming the Gospel of St. Luke?
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The Blessing of Daily Mass – Saint Mary’s Chapel, Boston College Reopens
I am at daily mass, but through no virtue of my own. God has a way of drawing us toward him even when we resist.
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Reviving a Music Program & Ryan Lynch on “Sounds from the Spires”
Good-hearted and talented people respond quite positively to the philosophy of service to God and others.
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The Lowest Musical Aspiration Possible – Or the Highest?
Is being a church musician the lowest musical aspiration possible? Or the Highest?
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Christmas Season and the New Year
This is a profession that is in fact, unfriendly to families, i.e., working all weekend long, nights, holidays, low pay, etc. Yet we persist through an act of will as much as an act of loving service.
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Scripture, Sacred Music, and the Actions of Our Lives
Let’s not minimize the role of the psalms in the mass to the Responsorial! Plus a FREE download of the Epiphany Communion antiphon.
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I am a fraud: A Life of Service
The richness of liturgical worship is what draws may of us in –- for life.
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