Does Having Children Preclude Service As A Catholic Musician?
Here are some thoughts, but I can’t promise they make sense.
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A Musical Diet
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.
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SATB “Agnus Dei” by Verdelot with Rehearsal Videos
Who wouldn’t welcome a brief-but-beautiful piece like this?
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Top Six Liturgical Quotes By Robert Cardinal Sarah
Is the “Reform of the Reform” dead? Bishop Serratelli and many others disagree!
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OFFERTORY: Chant Propers in Three Parts for Sundays & Feasts
Exciting New Collection of Simple English Propers!
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Optimists & Pessimists
There was a standard commonly accepted, so what was strange and of out of place felt that way.
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Musical Resources • External Solemnity of the Sacred Heart (1962 Missal)
Some EF communities will celebrate the “External Solemnity” of the Most Sacred Heart on Sunday.
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BENEDICTA: Marian Chant from Norcia ~ Number 1 on the Billboard Charts
Perhaps the recent commercial success of sacred music is indicative of humanity’s natural hunger for transcendent union with the Divine.
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“Battles” in the Church (Part 1 of 2)
3 common “Liturgical Battles” that we see in the Church nowadays
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Solesmes Monastery & Latin Accents
I suspect that in a long melisma it’s hard to know “where you are”…
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Video • “Three Approaches To A Catholic Hymn”
Including a special version of the “Tantum Ergo” by Fr. Adrian Fortescue.
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Video • Disrespect For God’s House
Is Consecration by the words of Institution “de fide” ??
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PDF Download • “A Manual For Church Musicians” (1964) — 130 pages
A generous reader sent me copies of this extremely rare book.
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Musical Green Eggs and Ham
Considering the great gift Mother Teresa had been to the world, I had to wonder why her sisters chose something as dubious as “Shepherd Me, O God” to be sung at her funeral?
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USCCB: “Revised Grail Psalter” Will Be Revised Again
“I cannot understand why a private family can be made worldwide agent for the official prayers of the Church.” —Dr. Jerry Galipeau
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