A Fond Farewell
Changes in my personal life have made it necessary for me to curtail my blogging activity, and so this blog will be my last—at least for a time.
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Articles
PDF Download: Dominican Breviary From 1967
The book is so large, it must be downloaded in sections.
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PDF Download: Hymns of the Dominican Missal & Breviary • Fr. Aquinas Byrnes (1943)
Containing literal and poetic translations, author biographies, meter explanations, and much more!
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How Well Did Your Parents Know The Mass?
PDF Download: Order of Mass (Latin & English) printed in THE CROWN HYMNAL of 1911.
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Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #62
Today’s installment is a rare image of the Last Supper.
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Risuoni La Mia Bocca
Liturgical song composed in honor of Saint Cecilia and performed in Rome.
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“The Gloves Are Off” — Jonathan Gruber & The Traditional Mass
“The faith of many was quite infantile, I would say.” —Paul Inwood, talking about preconciliar Catholics
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Knitted thuribles and other toys
Something I unvented (thank you Elizabeth Zimmerman) and also something else.
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“The Experience After The Council Was So Strong And In Some Cases Violent…” —Cardinal Burke
6 December 2014 interview with Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke by GloriaTV.
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Musical Resources • 3rd Sunday of Advent
Including “Creator Alme Siderum” with English Translation by Rev. Adrian Fortescue.
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Saint Paul’s Choir School ~ Top 5 on the Billboard Charts
“Christmas in Harvard Square” opened on the No. 2 spot on Billboard Magazine’s Classical Traditional Chart and has remained in the top 5 since.
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The Importance of Singing Carols
Let us make a point of singing good carols as much as we can throughout the whole Christmas season, rather than imitating a world that stops celebrating on December 26th.
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What They Didn’t Tell You About Psalm Tone VIII
Even the “Liber Usualis” omits critical information about Tone VIII.
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Review: An English Gradual (Belmont Abbey, 2013)
For myself, I prefer the liturgy entirely in Latin or entirely in the vernacular. Others will disagree.
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Any Hope For Modern Catholic Hymnody? Yes!
Major publishers include Haugen’s verse “not in some heaven, light-years away”—what can be done about it?
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