Volunteer Choirs • Rehearsal “Tricks”
Only two people in the whole school are forced to publicly demonstrate their work: the choirmaster and the coach.
Articles
Ministry of Consolation • A Case for Congregational Singing at Funerals
“If you, the bereaved, cannot give voice to your grief in this moment, we shall do it for you.”
What Do Catholic Teenagers Sing?
A lesson in presumptions and realities
PDF Download • “O Esca Viatorum”
I am deeply saddened that some people still don’t know where these items are located.
Musical Resources • 11th Sunday after Pentecost 1
“After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.”
Ordo Missæ from “People’s Mass Book” (1964)
Two words come to mind: inexplicable and bizarre.
Tenth Anniversary Celebration • “Summorum Pontificum”
A Solemn Pontifical Mass will be offered in Philadelphia on September 14, 2017
“That’s not Eucharistic” • Why We Sing the Communion Antiphons
What does the Incarnation have to do with the Communion Procession? A great deal.
Learn From Children Choristers
We church musicians are called to be more childlike than other musicians.
Musical Resources • 10th Sunday after Pentecost 1
“At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others…”
Fr. Patrick T. Brannan, SJ • My Tribute
The cardinal was informed by ICEL: “There is no doubt that Father Brannan knows his Latin and Greek; but does he know English?”
PDF Download • “Hymns Ancient & Modern”
Including a magnificent hymn for two voices (“Rex Sempiterne”) appropriate throughout the entire liturgical year.
The Scandal and Allure of the Priesthood
A Reflection on Priesthood by Archbishop Philip Tartaglia
Telephone Conversation w/ Faculty
Re: 2017 Sacred Music Symposium
Musical Resources • Feast of the Transfiguration
“…and Who didst wonderfully foreshow the perfect adoption of Thy children by a voice coming down in a shining cloud…”