Why Did Nobody Inform Me That Latin Was Abolished?
“The request freaked the Deacon out, and, through sweat, he answered that the Council had abolished Latin.”
Articles
Sacred Music As Entertainment
The reason we have a choir in the church is for our entertainment at Mass, right?
CMAA Colloquium and Hoosier Hospitality
People should always be valued more than systems, and so it was with this gathering.
Free PDF Download: Complete Gospel Acclamations (172 pages) • Le Moyne & Le Jeune
Download the entire book for free or purchase the beautiful book (spiral-bound).
Priests Embarrassed To Wear Distinctive Garb
Boy … what a difference a true leader makes!
Colloquium Roundup
How to Experience Colloquium XXIV Belatedly and From Afar
A 1969 Quote Bugnini Wishes He Could Retract
“Hundreds of millions of Catholics can now pray to God in their own languages and not in meaningless sounds…” — Annibale Bugnini
Remembering Cardinal Virgilio Noè
If you think that he did not care, as many prelates, about who and what was playing, you would be “hugely wrong.”
Homily: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
“The wonderful thing about Jesus and His teaching is that it is within the grasp of everyone.”
Pope Benedict XVI Reveals Why He Issued Summorum Pontificum on 7 July 2007
“A community is calling into question its very being when it suddenly declares its holiest and highest possession to be strictly forbidden … Can it be trusted any more about anything else?”
What Should Female Lectors Wear At Mass?
Not one shred of iconographical evidence contradicts the alb as being a priestly vestment.
Family Von Trapp & Celebration “Versus Populum”
Is the Trapp Family priest saying Mass “facing the people” in the 1930s?
Colloquium Update IV
The Glories of A Single Proper
Colloquium Update III
“Minding the Gap” — Organ Improvisation
If we took music seriously
“Great importance is to be attached to the teaching and practice of music in seminaries, in the novitiates and houses of study of religious of both sexes, and also in other Catholic institutions and schools. To impart this instruction, teachers are to be carefully trained and put in charge of the teaching of sacred music.”