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There is a proper balance between an impossibly hard formal audition and the usual “any child can join” policy that exists in the typical parish children’s choir.
The Amice
Summer Sacred Music Workshop in Jasper, GA, on August 15.
Fr. Robert W. Hovda argues that “Little Green Apples” can be sung during Mass.
Starting off choir practice with a game or two. Then a prayer before choir practice.
The removal of carpeting is the most effective way to improve many aspects of the liturgy. Externally, what benefits most is congregational singing.
“The master in this Gospel is praising, not the wrongful act of the unfaithful steward, but the peculiar astuteness with which he makes friends who will be useful when things go amiss.” (Maredsous N. T.)
Some afterthoughts on the Sacred Music Colloquium XXV
When priests came into Bishop Trautman’s office asking permission, he would start speaking Latin to them.
In the Extraordinary Form, the “Asperges Me” is only used on Sundays.
Following the Mass, Archbishop Joseph H. Schlarman was made an honorary Indian chief.
It’s extremely short and not difficult—yet fresh & gorgeous.
“Sheen told a friend of mine that anything he’d ever said of significance was taken from either Knox or Chesterton.” —Fr. George Rutler
The Hand Washing
Printing copies of the propers is very handy for singers not yet confident with the Liber and other books.
