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This book is invaluable for the church musician.

What could be simpler or more fun than this?

“Such moments had been a part of his spiritual life since boyhood and through his priesthood.”

A Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form next Friday evening in Philadelphia.
Maestro Mawby is now a contributor for «CASTAWAY» and his articles may interest you…

The Cincture

Once we finish revising the scores at Goupil, this will be unnecessary.

Just a little each day. As Confucius says: “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

Personal tensions can rise to the highest boiling point during Mass and no other place.
Why is this? As it turns out, there’s a pretty interesting reason.

“I did my best to give utterance to all those black notes in the missal.” —Fulton J. Sheen

At the end of the audition, most of the students experience a great sense of accomplishment and really consider it an honor to be accepted into the choir!

Only the blind can avoid facing this reality: the biggest liturgical crisis is in Rome.

The recessional is bright, happy, and beautiful.
Recently, I came across a video of a Anglican boys’ choir singing Dan Schutte’s “Here I am Lord”…

“We strongly resent the implication that we and our children are not sufficiently intelligent to understand the simple Latin of the Mass…” —Manifesto of the Catholic Laity (1943)
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