SATB “Agnus Dei” after Fr. Gregorio Allegri (d. 1652)
Without question, the most popular piece I ever “wrote.”
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.”
Without question, the most popular piece I ever “wrote.”
Perhaps a better phrase would be Bishop Gracida’s version: “Renewal of the Renewal.”
“No preference is expressed in the liturgical legislation for either position.”
Pope St. Pius X wanted this decree to be read each year from the pulpit by all Catholic priests.
As surely as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, someone will be unhappy. Displeasure does not discriminate.
Breathtaking statements from the Vatican’s chief liturgist who—while on retreat—goes 72 hours without food or water.
Highlights from Cardinal Sarah’s Lecture at Sacra Liturgia UK 2016
We’ll be singing this piece a lot because our priest has a special devotion to St. Joseph.
Whether your particular parishes are rich or poor, big or small, love sacred music or hate it, there is one thing that I challenge all of you to do, and that is to sing the Mass.
Six reasons in favor of the “Second Confiteor” and my thoughts.
At the time of his death, Fortescue was Professor of Church History at St. Edmund’s College, Ware—the oldest Catholic school in England.
The frontier of composition is clearly producing new settings of the propers in the vernacular, useful for a typical parish.
I’ve often told my choir members that before I die they will be singing from music displayed on some form of a tablet, but I never thought I’d see the Capella Sistina blazing the trail!
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