The American Idolization of Liturgy
Sometimes I wish people didn’t have so many opinions about the liturgy.
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Why Didn’t Anyone Stop This?
Here is an except from a Church bulletin published in December of 2014.
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Organ Processionals & Postludes: Suggestions Needed
“So many of the wonderful Preludes & Fugues by Bach—as splendid as they are—do not work as Processional pieces: they’re simply too long.”
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Reflections On Marty Haugen’s “Mass Of Creation” (Revised Version)
Before the revision, Haugen’s Gloria “worked” much better, but I still had serious reservations about it.
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L’Anima Mia Ha Sete Sung By Music School In Rome
Recorded for Vatican Radio with organist Aurelio Porfiri. Conducted by Sister Dolores Aguirre.
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Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #65
Today’s installment is a rare image of our Lord’s Resurrection.
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Musical Resources • Most Holy Name Of Jesus
…including a special PDF version (Singer + Organist) of “Corde Natus ex Parentis.”
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Preparing Funeral Liturgies
Who Should Pick the Readings?
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Easy Organ Hymns for Catholics
There is a built in tendency for nervous musicians to rush things – I think as your heart beats faster, your perception of time is dilated. As you build more confidence your sense of timing improves too.
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Christmas Season and the New Year
This is a profession that is in fact, unfriendly to families, i.e., working all weekend long, nights, holidays, low pay, etc. Yet we persist through an act of will as much as an act of loving service.
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Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #64
Today’s installment is a picture of the angel Raphael.
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PDF Download: “Saint Mark’s Hymnal for Use in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States” (1910)
I bet you don’t own this important historical hymn book!
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“A Pathetic, Unenforceable Patchwork Of Rhetoric” & The Latin Mass
“Many of those who have influenced the reform have no love, and no veneration of that which has been handed down to us.” —Secretary of the Consilium
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Fr. Jay Finelli Weighs In On The Jogues Missal
“This section immediately brought to mind my mother’s old hand missal.” —Fr. Jay Finelli
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Video: “Make Me To Know Your Ways, O Lord”
A hauntingly beautiful composition by Aurelio Porfiri. How wonderful to hear God’s praises resound in Macau, China!
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