The “Little Rock Nine” & Sacred Music
How could closing down all the schools be a good plan?
A monthly subscription fee of $4.95 gives access to the entire website. Thank you for supporting our efforts!

How could closing down all the schools be a good plan?

Three new auxiliary bishops for Los Angeles!

You can sleep soundly at night, knowing how to correctly pronounce “hagióque pnéumate.”

People should not be coming to Mass for the emotional high

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.

“…like man, Mary, you are IN—really cool among women.”

“To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.”

The Amice

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.

Summer Sacred Music Workshop in Jasper, GA, on August 15.

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.
1 (747) 218-8005
chabanel.psalms@gmail.com
Corpus Christi Watershed
8118 Etienne Dr
Corpus Christi, TX 78414
Corpus Christi Watershed is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization recognized by the state of Texas on 19 October 2006. Our statement of purpose notes that we “employ the creative media in service of theology, the Church, and Christian culture for the enrichment and enjoyment of the public.”