Sounds from the Spires • SiriusXM Radio • Jennifer Pascual
Jennifer Pascual, Director of Music at St. Patrick’s Cathedral hosts a weekly radio program on sacred music.
Articles
Video • The Altar Server “Must See”
The altar server plays a very important role in the liturgy.
Rehearsal Videos • A Resplendent “Agnus Dei” You’ve Never Heard
Can you hear the Canon between Soprano & Tenor?
Video • Sacred or Secular?
Sacred or Secular? What do you hear?
PDF Download • “Latin in the New Liturgy” (1976)
“The use of Latin in celebrating the new Mass Rite will be encouraged as it has been in the old; Latin expresses the nature of the Church as international and timeless.”
Recordings for A New Book of Old Hymns
A little book of Gregorian chant hymns for the every occasion, with a collection of recordings for those unfamiliar with chant notation. Now more than a decade since the first edition and still going strong.
Funeral Mass • Justice Antonin Scalia
You can download the program or view the full Mass online.
A Roman Catholic Cleric’s Noble Robes
The Archbishop of Kraków was (for a short time) Senator of the Second Polish Republic.
122 Messengers of Peace • Dona Nobis Pacem
It’s never just about the music.
PDF • Two Nice Versions of “Attende Domine”
A good piece for Lent.
Are you Praying the Mass?
An old and holy priest talks about prayer and the liturgy.
Something That Would Fix So Much … But Nobody Mentions It
Is this “tacit” approval really “imaginary” approval?
Dorothy Sayers and the Lost Tools of Learning
We will never inspire a new generation of great Catholic musicians, so sorely needed at this time, if we don’t open their eyes to the “Lost Tools of Learning Music” and point them to the One to Whose praises we hope to sing for ever in the Heavenly Jerusalem.
“Credo for Two Voices” • Gustaaf Nees (d. 1965)
This simple setting of Gregorian Credo IV uses organ, men’s voices, and women’s voices.
Musical Resources • 1st Sunday of Lent (EF)
“We solemnly offer the sacrifice at the beginning of Lent, O Lord…”