Why the Pipe Organ?
Why is the pipe organ to be held in high esteem?
Articles
Fulton J. Sheen • World’s Most Progressive Bishop?
Sheen replied: “Mr. President, I’m not the least bit impressed with your source.”
Kids Are Colorblind But Adults Are Not
Adults with an agenda teach children their own biases.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
If the Holy Mass really is the unbloody sacrifice of the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, then the music we use will be radically affected.
Justice Antonin Scalia on Church Music
“I would go there Sunday morning and sing Palestrina, William Byrd, Mozart…this magnificent choral music.”
Masterful “Salve Regina” by 17th-Century Portuguese Composer
This is the sort of setting that could only have derived from faith and grown out of the experience of praying these words repeatedly and fervently.
Sing everyday! Regina Caeli!
Singing isn’t just a Sunday thing – if you want to sing well, then it’s good to sing everyday! Bring this ancient antiphon into your life and see how it goes.
The Older I Get…
The older I get, the more I spend on these. If not, what good am I to the prayer of the people?
2nd Macau International Choir Festival
Register before August 20 to participate in the 2nd Macau International Choir Festival
Is This Any Way to Pray at Mass?
My daughter freaked out when I told her this.
Take 2 Voice Lessons and Call Me in the Morning
I watched in fascination as one of the tenors strained to reach notes obviously out of his range. I had never heard the chest voice *forced* so high in the male register.
Brace Yourself • “Raw” Recordings from Solemn Mass
There’s something remarkable about instances where the people involved don’t realize a recording is being made.
PDF Download • “Compline for Sunday”
My ignorance vis–à–vis the 1962 Breviary will astound you…
Musical Resources • “Quasimodo Sunday”
“Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.”
The Dedication of a Church • The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Voyage, Boston
The Dedication of a Church is a rare event in anyone’s lifetime.