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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Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(6 of 7)
The wife of a Church musician weighs in…
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Basking in Beauty’s Glow
Taking the Time to Ponder
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Coolest Picture Of All Time?
Polish Anti-Communist “Army of Independence” in May of 1949.
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Solfege? There’s an app for that.
“Excuse me, I have to go work on my green belt.”
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Video • Padre Pio Celebrates Mass (5 May 1956)
You can hear Padre Pio singing the Mass.
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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.
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Screenshots Proving “Versus Populum” Was Allowed By The 1572 Missal
A reader from Indonesia kindly sent us these…
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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.
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“Salve Festa Dies” • SATB Choral Piece By Canon Jules Van Nuffel (d. 1953)
Who wouldn’t welcome this fresh & contemporary piece for Easter?
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PDF Download: Two (2) Rare Franciscan Chant Books
Many of these melodies cannot be easily found in any other book.
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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.
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