Summer Sacred Music Workshop 2015
Summer Sacred Music Workshop in Jasper, GA, on August 15.
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The removal of carpeting is the most effective way to improve many aspects of the liturgy. Externally, what benefits most is congregational singing.
When priests came into Bishop Trautman’s office asking permission, he would start speaking Latin to them.
“The master in this Gospel is praising, not the wrongful act of the unfaithful steward, but the peculiar astuteness with which he makes friends who will be useful when things go amiss.” (Maredsous N. T.)
In the Extraordinary Form, the “Asperges Me” is only used on Sundays.
Following the Mass, Archbishop Joseph H. Schlarman was made an honorary Indian chief.
“Sheen told a friend of mine that anything he’d ever said of significance was taken from either Knox or Chesterton.” —Fr. George Rutler
Printing copies of the propers is very handy for singers not yet confident with the Liber and other books.
Can you imagine a liturgical commentator standing at the front of Church declaring something like that?
As musicians, what sustains us? Certainly, good music is a requirement. Not just good music, but beauty itself.
The organist will play softly at the Offertory.
Report on the sixth (last) day of the Sacred Music Colloquium in Pittsburgh
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We’re under tremendous pressure to transfer our website to a “subscription model.”
We don’t want to do this. We believe our website should remain free to all. It’s annoying to have to search for login credentials (e.g. if you’re away from your desk).
Our president has written the following letter:
* Thirteen Men & Coins (Holy Thursday Appeal)
Traditionally on Holy Thursday, the priest washed the feet of thirteen men. Theologians held various opinions regarding whom the “13th man” represented. Before the liturgical changes of Pope Pius XII (which changed the number from thirteen to twelve), the priest washed each man’s feet, kissed his foot, and gave him a coin.
This “coin” business seems providential—inasmuch as our appeal begins on Holy Thursday this year.
Time's up