How Dare We Complain?
Can you imagine trying to feed your family in the year 1300AD?
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.”

God is a provident God. This in turn should make us want to love God.

Are we bringing forth treasures? Are we cultivating these treasures or do we leave them in the back of the storeroom?

Published in 1911, this “Convent Mass” is for two sopranos.

Music, for a Christian, should serve the same purpose as everything else in life: weaning us from excessive attachment to this world and lifting our souls heavenward.

Life is not a piece of cake. And the Mass is not a Sunday recreational moment. We need to feel the burning of being close to God.
Does modern architecture compare favorably to the architecture of the dark ages?

Maybe today we need missionaries of a different kind, ready to announce the beauty of our faith and tradition with an understanding of the new needs of a changing world.
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Vatican II wanted more Scripture in the Mass, but somehow the reformers missed that memo.

No, dear girls, I do not want to know more about you, but maybe it would be good for you to know something more about me.

“At the moment of conception, a new life comes into being. The DNA—the genetic blueprint—is there.”

“Complete equality of status for the old rite of Mass alongside the new rite … is just not going to happen.” — Fr. Brian W. Harrison (26 March 1995)

Not too long ago I was talking with a priest who said that he did not believe that there was anyone in hell. I told him that was a very nice thought, and I too would love to believe it, but I don’t think we can count on it.
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