Strong Leadership and Admitting Mistakes • Two Stories
A sure sign of an insecure leader is one whose first instinct is to blame others when something goes wrong.
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Richard J. Clark is the Director of Music of the Archdiocese of Boston and the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. He is also Chapel Organist (Saint Mary’s Chapel) at Boston College. His compositions have been performed worldwide.—Read full biography (with photographs).
A sure sign of an insecure leader is one whose first instinct is to blame others when something goes wrong.
“Sounds from the Spires” has been a great supporter of sacred music in the liturgy, bringing choral music, chant, and the pipe organ to a broad audience.
Working for the Church is wholly at odds with having a family and being present for them.
Assassinated on March 24, 1980 while saying Mass, Romero was beatified by Pope Francis on May 23, 2015.
He has been on top of the Roman Catholic world of liturgical music for decades.
It is not found in the Roman Rite. It is not there in the scriptures. We are in fact inserting such self-obsession.
This isn’t about chant. This isn’t about a style of music. It is about the urgency we face with vocations.
The priest’s musical role is enormously influential. This can not be emphasized enough.
These three elements inform most every aspect of our service to God and the faithful.
Many of us are gearing up our choir programs. Yet if we do not invest of ourselves time to “know” the Lord, our work may be for our own glorification rather than for God’s.
World Library Publications has published settings of Communion propers for Advent and Christmas. Listen here to beautiful recordings directed by Paul French.
The most important element of this document is not the list of hymns and chants, but the vital coupling of faith formation and sacred music.
Quiet prayer for church musicians is very difficult to come by. Here are nine things one may find helpful.
The people deserve to know the truth. It is time for ignorance to end so that the faithful may develop informed opinions.
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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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