Bigger Fish to Fry
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.
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”

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.

A generous reader sent me copies of this extremely rare book.
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