Mesmerizing Credo Setting (SATB) • After Machaut
Two young ladies helped record these 14th-century harmonies.
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Two Popes Singing “Our Father” in Latin
Listen to the instructions John Paul II gives the Chicago congregation.
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Two Articles Worth Reading
On “Liturgiam authenticam” and the Crisis in Art
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Liturgical Language Barriers
Learning enough to use Latin liturgically is important and easy if you have the information. Including a short video giving tips to cover most Church Latin pronunciation.
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Musical Resources • 5th Sunday of Lent (“Passion”)
The Jews therefore said to Him, “Thou art not yet fifty years old and hast Thou seen Abraham?”
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“Adoro te devote” (SATB) • Rehearsal Videos
…with English translation by Fr. Adrian Fortescue.
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Reconstructed 16th-Century Mass
An interesting project to reconstruct a 16th century Mass as Henry VIII would have heard it.
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Why I Never Repeat Pieces With My Choir
“Sometimes when you are confusing, you are mistaken for being learned.” —Fulton J. Sheen
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Commercial Pop Culture + Church Music?
This brief video—filmed at an Episcopal church in 2013—may offend you.
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“The World” • What is the world?
Golden Jubilee Homily by Bishop René H. Gracida.
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Professional Video • Real, Live, Irish Monks!
Silverstream Priory is a house of monks living under the Rule of Saint Benedict.
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The Fully Sung Mass
if St. Augustine was right and “singing belongs to the one who loves,” then it behooves us to once again learn to love and thereby take up the Church’s eternal hymn of praise.
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Palestrina and the Perfecting of the Medieval Ideal of Music as Rational • (Part 1 of 3)
The polyphonic imitative style of the Renaissance is a reflection of the rational mind and the music of heaven.
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World’s Easiest Organ Processional (PDF)
I have a confession to make: I can’t stand hearing wrong notes.
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The Joy of Penance
The celebration of Laetare Sunday reveals a deeper truth.
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