The Difficulty of Cultivating a Prayerful Focus for Musicians
Quiet prayer for church musicians is very difficult to come by. Here are nine things one may find helpful.
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Hymn Tunes • What’s Up With Naming Them?
Until recently, most Catholic hymnals didn’t have a metrical index!
Worst Typo Of All Time?
This one got by the editor’s eye!
Too Many Sopranos? Try This Canon!
A compositional miracle by Rev’d Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611).
Being Careful With Hymns
Each individual “ear” must decide what is acceptable.
A Different Kind of World Youth Day
Sacred Music Helped to Transform Tauron Arena Kraków into a House of Prayer
Interesting Points in this Sunday’s Offertory
Do you understand why I’ve highlighted various points?
“Ad Orientem” and Granovetter’s Threshold Models of Collective Behavior
The people deserve to know the truth. It is time for ignorance to end so that the faithful may develop informed opinions.
St. Josemaría and the Mass
These pictures can prove St. Josemaría’s love for the Old Mass.
The “Long & Short” of Latin Hymns
Such underlay would be considered loathsome by composers like Guerrero. Indeed, it’s an impossibility!
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli in Cappa Magna
Anyone care to hazard a guess regarding why a blue biretta would have been used circa 1933?
Does Your Bishop Enforce The GIRM?
They will assume—and why shouldn’t they?—that “approved by the USCCB” applies to the hymns and songs…
Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?
“To the historian their decisions are disgusting nonsense that people of my kind want simply to ignore.” — Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1919)
“Actuosa Participatio” and the Reception of Holy Communion
Relevant Reflections from “Sacramentum Caritatis.”
Free Recordings • British Boys’ Choir
Free recordings of famous British boys’ choirs on YouTube!