PDF Download: Notre Dame Hymn Tune Book (1905)
“They call me a Papist and they laugh at my creed…”
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
You’ll want to immediately download these scores, videos, and Mp3 files!
Can you imagine singing all those vernacular hymns while Mass is happening?
Today’s installment is a rare image of Our Lady’s Nativity.
Does the 1967 Instruction on Music in the Liturgy have any relevance today?
Many of you asked me to share the results, which I have done below.
Is being a church musician the lowest musical aspiration possible? Or the Highest?
Many don’t realize that all the EF chants for the Holy Family can be used at OF—cf. section 397 of the Ordo Cantus Missæ.
“The vitality of the Classical Rite is as fresh as ever.”
Archbishop Sheen said nary a word about any liturgical reforms following the Council.
Sometimes I wish people didn’t have so many opinions about the liturgy.
Here is an except from a Church bulletin published in December of 2014.
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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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