Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(2 of 7)
How modernism effects music and babies. And how UNICEF is like the Catholic Church.
The modern armchair chant scribes
A great source of chant snippets for your booklets as well as a way to make the internet a better place.
Motets and Midi practice tracks
The search for practice tracks for Jesu Rex Admirabilis yielded a treasure trove of choir resources.
Lord of the World
A highly recommended book which relies on some background knowledge of sacred music.
Preparing for Candlemas
Your one-week-to-go guide to preparing for Candlemas.
Teaching your own children
Starring the almost two year old darling of the family along with miscellaneous siblings egging her on.
We want to be fed
What do you think of a new Catechetical Lectionary?
Easy Organ Hymns for Catholics
There is a built in tendency for nervous musicians to rush things – I think as your heart beats faster, your perception of time is dilated. As you build more confidence your sense of timing improves too.
A New Resolution – to read the Bible in a year
About five different plans for studying the Bible from a Catholic perspective.
Knitted thuribles and other toys
Something I unvented (thank you Elizabeth Zimmerman) and also something else.
The Christmas Album for 2014
Young men singing the medieval carol Gaudete in the crypt of St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney.
For the Carol Enthusiasts
Looking at books of Christmas carols, some out of print, some available right now.
Advent Music
Waiting for the season of waiting.
Preparing for an EF Sung Mass
Preparing music folders for a Missa Cantata – all the essentials and a few handy desirables.
All Saints celebrations
An All Saints Day party with a major digression on Halloween and All Souls Day.
The Final Message of the Synod on the Family
The official broadcast from the Vatican.
Pope Pius XII’s First Communion Day
“Pope Pius XII was, in his own way, perhaps the boldest innovator among the Popes of the twentieth century.”
Peace and St Francis
St Francis worked for peace through prayer. If by singing we pray twice, then this collection of music could multiply our efforts today!
Choirs give hope
Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron
A New Book of Old Hymns 4th edition out now!
60 hymns, 92 pages. Get 25% off with code MATEY25 now through 22 September – good for all books on Lulu