Learning Latin in the new millennium
Two approaches to learning a little Latin language for praying with understanding.
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Veronica Brandt holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering. As editor, she has produced fine publications (as well as valuable reprints) dealing with Gregorian chant, hymnody, Latin, and other subjects. These publications are distinguished on account of their tastefulness. She lives in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia, with her husband Peter and six children.—Read full biography (with photographs).
Two approaches to learning a little Latin language for praying with understanding.
Wherein Veronica rails against the public perception of traditional Church music and hopes to break down barriers to unleash the joy planted by musicians of earlier ages.
Planting the seeds for liturgical reform with a new book of old hymns.
Hymns are influential, popular and full of history and trivial details, making a fertile ground for susceptible personalities to develop their geekish tendencies.
Importing singers is the quickest way to get good music into your parish, even if it is only for one occasion.
Book review: Forty Dreams Of St. John Bosco: From St. John Bosco’s Biographical Memoirs
“Great importance is to be attached to the teaching and practice of music in seminaries, in the novitiates and houses of study of religious of both sexes, and also in other Catholic institutions and schools. To impart this instruction, teachers are to be carefully trained and put in charge of the teaching of sacred music.”
A pastoral letter from Most Reverend Anthony Fisher OP, Bishop of Paramatta.
“Every hour of worship should represent at least two hours of structured preparation at a time and place apart from the congregation.”
Inspiration for enkindling a love of the Mass in the next generation from a booklet over 50 years old.
Is selling raffle tickets a form of almsgiving? Or is it more like begging? Or is it just playing a game?
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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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