Wrapped in the Liber Usualis
A scarf adorned with pages from the Liber Usualis. Why not?
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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Weddings, with all of their challenges offer an important chance to evangelize. God calls us to be fishers of women and men. That’s the most important catch of all.
Here are some thoughts, but I can’t promise they make sense.
I realize what I propose seems like moving forward at a snail’s pace, but considering how long the average parishioner has been in the liturgical and musical desert, anything more would cause the musical equivalent of refeeding syndrome.
Who wouldn’t welcome a brief-but-beautiful piece like this?
Is the “Reform of the Reform” dead? Bishop Serratelli and many others disagree!
Exciting New Collection of Simple English Propers!
There was a standard commonly accepted, so what was strange and of out of place felt that way.
Some EF communities will celebrate the “External Solemnity” of the Most Sacred Heart on Sunday.
Perhaps the recent commercial success of sacred music is indicative of humanity’s natural hunger for transcendent union with the Divine.
3 common “Liturgical Battles” that we see in the Church nowadays
I suspect that in a long melisma it’s hard to know “where you are”…
Including a special version of the “Tantum Ergo” by Fr. Adrian Fortescue.
Considering the great gift Mother Teresa had been to the world, I had to wonder why her sisters chose something as dubious as “Shepherd Me, O God” to be sung at her funeral?
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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.
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