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.
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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.
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Video • “Different Types Of Catholics”
Can you see yourself?
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Cardinal Sarah’s Liturgical Bombshell
Pressure will be brought to have him walk back his statements, but I don’t believe he will.
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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.
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The Problem of Beauty
An Intriguing Argument for the Existence of God
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A Homely Slant on Bertalot’s Sight-Singing
Is sight-singing only for elite choirs? Do you need fancy resources?
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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.
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Is your Congregation Ready?
One of the ways to help the congregation to enter into prayer during the Sacred Triduum is through catechesis.
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PDF Download • 1895 “Liber Responsorialis” by Solesmes Abbey
This free PDF was provided courtesy of the St. Jean de Lalande Library of Rare Books.
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Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(7 of 7)
We should be more and more convinced that the Propers are “healthier” than alternative songs…
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Stuff Choir Directors Say
I’ve discovered how traumatizing it can be when somebody impersonates you.
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A Flawed Translation Of Ritus Servandus?
Why are the words “ad orientem” never translated?
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The Great Secret
Oh, what would it be like to give my choristers a new motet and then lift my hands and go? Oh wait, we already do that.
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PDF Download: “67 Hymns” Arranged & Translated by Rev. Adrian Fortescue (1913)
I cannot help but think of this hymn collection as his greatest masterpiece.
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