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Coolest Picture Of All Time?
Polish Anti-Communist “Army of Independence” in May of 1949.
Solfege? There’s an app for that.
“Excuse me, I have to go work on my green belt.”
Video • Padre Pio Celebrates Mass (5 May 1956)
You can hear Padre Pio singing the Mass.
Helping Your Deacon or Priest Learn the Exsultet
Singing the “Exsultet” can be intimidating! Six pages of endless notes and words? Here are some helpful tools.
Screenshots Proving “Versus Populum” Was Allowed By The 1572 Missal
A reader from Indonesia kindly sent us these…
Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Lent
The “Gloria in excelsis” is not said from Septuagesima Sunday until Easter, except on Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, & some special feasts.
“Salve Festa Dies” • SATB Choral Piece By Canon Jules Van Nuffel (d. 1953)
Who wouldn’t welcome this fresh & contemporary piece for Easter?
PDF Download: Two (2) Rare Franciscan Chant Books
Many of these melodies cannot be easily found in any other book.
Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(4 of 7)
This year one, a seminarian from our parish is being ordained. He requested that we sing the Propers for his first Mass.
Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(5 of 7)
The practical end of formal approval.
Pope Francis Condemned The Reform Of The Reform? Not Quite…
“Devout people are the ones who will be most disturbed by the new liturgy.” —Pope Paul VI (11/26/1969)
Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(3 of 7)
When the GIRM says “four options”, they really mean four preferences…
Musical Resources • 1st Sunday of Lent
The “Gloria in excelsis” is not said from Septuagesima Sunday until Easter, except on Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, & some special feasts.
Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(2 of 7)
How modernism effects music and babies. And how UNICEF is like the Catholic Church.