Preparing for an EF Sung Mass
Preparing music folders for a Missa Cantata – all the essentials and a few handy desirables.
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”

Preparing music folders for a Missa Cantata – all the essentials and a few handy desirables.

Reverence, prayer, and internal participation increased through this act of external participation.

Freedom for all sounds nice in theory, but how does it work in practice?

Yesterday evening—on his day off, after another Mass he’d offered—I observed an OF priest saying the 1962 Missal in his private chapel.

“Why am I excited? Well, every year we spend about $4,000 on those paperback missalettes…”

We’re not as smart as we’d thought … and our forefathers weren’t as dumb as we’d assumed.

Traditional Latin Mass at a cemetery in Los Angeles: TOMORROW.
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This beautiful video explains a “safe place” for Catholics in Los Angeles.

An All Saints Day party with a major digression on Halloween and All Souls Day.
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If you can sing in tune, I need your help! Please don’t worry if you cannot read music.

Do not miss the opportunities of All Souls Day, especially as it falls on a Sunday.

Download these magnificent mp3 recordings as soon as you can!

Every piece of music, great or small, contains an indefinable message of the soul, penetrating, communicative, formative.
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