A Musically Model Parish
I thought I would share some visioning ideas regarding music in the Ordinary Form parish.
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I thought I would share some visioning ideas regarding music in the Ordinary Form parish.
My 5-part series requesting donations seems to have failed miserably—with a few notable exceptions.
Editors of “The Tablet” felt these essays were horrendous!
Choirs not yet ready for SATB hymn singing will love this version for two voices!
If you had the opportunity to add more festive music to selected feasts in the liturgical year, to which would you give preference?
“In the day of My resurrection, saith the Lord, I will go before you into Galilee…”
Such a reference to original sin—a positive reference—seems quite strange to us.
A recording of the Solemn Vespers at the Chapel Royal is now available on BBC’s website.
Nothing is impossible with God, everyone can promote a good choral culture at their parish.
This video shows Mother Angelica playing the drums at Mass! (Not kidding!)
Singing the sequence, “Victimae Paschali Laudes” is truly appropriate every day this week.
“All parishes and schools are to have implemented the following directives by December 31, 2020.” —Bishop Doerfler.
“To preside, a person must live from the rich ambiguity of symbolic reality.”
Corpus Christi Watershed is a 501(c)3 public charity dedicated to exploring and embodying as our calling the relationship of religion, culture, and the arts. This non-profit organization employs the creative media in service of theology, the Church, and Christian culture for the enrichment and enjoyment of the public.
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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