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Sacred Music: “Curse the darkness…or light a candle?”
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Pope Francis, Sacred Music, and the Biggest Stage
Such musical exhortations are not new, but the tone and visibility are.
Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Lent 1
“O God, Who seest how we are destitute of all strength…”
Revisiting Musicam Sacram
Fifty Years Later – Strengths, Weaknesses, and Progressive Solemnity
Vatican II • What You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask
Fr. Christopher Smith has created a 7-part series on Vatican II.
Let Everything That Hath Breath Praise the Lord!
Point us once again to God Who is Beauty Itself!
PDF Download • “Antiphonale Romanum” (1949)
Yesterday, I used the text on page 366 to create an SATB Hymn for Lent.
Is There Music in Heaven?
The Sights and Sounds of St. John’s Apocalypse
O Crux Ave, partial recording
A stepping stone towards singing this motet with a small choir – a recording for the middle voice of Fr Friel’s 3 part motet.
Pope Francis on musical quality: “mediocrity, superficiality, and banality”
“Sometimes a certain mediocrity, superficiality and banality have prevailed, to the detriment of the beauty and intensity of liturgical celebrations.”
Did You Forget This Fabulous Lenten Hymn?
The psalm verses are optional—making this piece as long or short as you desire.
Choirmasters, Your Job Is Hard Beyond A Doubt
What does sacred music have to do with the O. J. Simpson murder trial?
EF Divine Office Resource • Daily Recordings of Lauds
“At the crowing of the cock, hope returns…”
Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (1891-1976)
“There remains throughout the presence of Bugnini—his bias, his anger, and his prejudice—making one continuously ask the unanswerable question: why?” ~ Msgr. Richard J. Schuler
The Purpose of Art
Considerations from Tolstoy