Bishop of Manchester • Letter Re: “Ad Orientem”
A $12,000 reward will be given to anyone who can produce a Vatican II document mentioning “celebration facing the people.”
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”

A $12,000 reward will be given to anyone who can produce a Vatican II document mentioning “celebration facing the people.”

The “Society for the Renewal of the Sacred Liturgy” is itself experiencing renewal.

“Be appeased, we beseech Thee, O Lord, by the prayers and offerings of our lowliness…”

I don’t think young people (or most people, frankly) are drawn to the pre-conciliar Mass because of nostalgia.

Our Church is notoriously horrible at keeping up with cultural fads—because they’re so ephemeral.

Why not pick up a copy of Kevin Allen’s “Matri Divinae” collection?

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Pete Avendaño at the Sacred Music Symposium, held each year in Los Angeles.

“May we receive Thy mercy, O Lord, in the midst of Thy temple…”

“Ever wonder why McDonald’s decided in 1962 to put a piece of fish into a hamburger bun?” —Bishop Earl Boyea
A simple setting of “Dominus Dixit ad Me” by Fr. Áureo Castro.

Pope Francis has said: “Friar Junípero was one of the founding fathers of the United States.”
If you read French, you’ll understand these homilies.
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