The Power of Good Music
Please, please don’t ever underestimate the power of good music to touch hearts in either the work of evangelization or catechesis.
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Please, please don’t ever underestimate the power of good music to touch hearts in either the work of evangelization or catechesis.

Music is not and cannot be neutral.

The life of a choirmaster is a life of sacrifice…

What Church musicians can learn from “Friday” by Rebecca Black.

The older I get, I prepare more not to receive accolades, but to become invisible.
The Traditional Latin Mass is being offered regularly at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Chattanooga.

I’ve decided to try an experiment that may work in other parishes.

“Almighty and merciful God, in thy goodness put far from us all that may work us harm…”
We are so proud of our own Fr. David Friel.

I feel that solfege is the fastest and most secure route to establishing the scale and the way its notes function within that scale in the minds of singers.

Published by the Catholic Choirmasters’ Guild of Buffalo, New York.

Pope Francis celebrated the Closing Mass for the World Meeting of Families on the last day of his visit.

The seven stanzas of amazingness by Blessed Cardinal Newman with three tunes to choose from.

A friend kindly sent me these photos…

2 Papal Masses in New York and Philadelphia.
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