Video • “How to Love that boring Latin Mass”
Don’t change the Mass, let the Mass change you.
Articles
Bertalot’s 5 Wheels (Part 1 of 2)
I have personally reached the point where I am not willing to compromise on this issue with my choristers.
Brief Recording • Newest Choir In Los Angeles
We have been able to establish a choir, even though our FSSP parish is still in its infancy.
Six Things To Know About USCCB Hymn Approval
It’s no secret. Anyone who’s been in Church music realizes what happens in 99% of Catholic parishes.
Most Pure Heart of Mary Schola Cantorum
This fall, Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic School in Kansas will become the third Catholic Choir School in the United States.
Video • “Different Types Of Catholics”
Can you see yourself?
Cardinal Sarah’s Liturgical Bombshell
Pressure will be brought to have him walk back his statements, but I don’t believe he will.
The Problem of Beauty
An Intriguing Argument for the Existence of God
Musical Resources • 3rd Sunday of Lent
The “Gloria in excelsis” is not said from Septuagesima Sunday until Easter, except on Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, & some special feasts.
A Homely Slant on Bertalot’s Sight-Singing
Is sight-singing only for elite choirs? Do you need fancy resources?
Pope Francis and “recovering the allure of beauty”
If the priest is “excessively” focused on the rubrics “…I do not enter into the mystery” “…if I am a showman, the protagonist” of the Mass, “then I do not enter into the mystery” either.
Is your Congregation Ready?
One of the ways to help the congregation to enter into prayer during the Sacred Triduum is through catechesis.
PDF Download • 1895 “Liber Responsorialis” by Solesmes Abbey
This free PDF was provided courtesy of the St. Jean de Lalande Library of Rare Books.
Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(7 of 7)
We should be more and more convinced that the Propers are “healthier” than alternative songs…
Stuff Choir Directors Say
I’ve discovered how traumatizing it can be when somebody impersonates you.