Five signs you might be a Hymn Geek
Hymns are influential, popular and full of history and trivial details, making a fertile ground for susceptible personalities to develop their geekish tendencies.
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PDF Download: Mocquereau’s 1903 “Liber Usualis”
No longer the only one … but that’s OK.
“The Celebration of the Liturgy is the most important act of evangelization.”
“Easy feelings and superficial affections do not, in the long run nourish the life of the believer; we need solid food of the word of God and the Eucharist, which have been from the beginning the only solid and substantial nourishment of the Christian.” — Goffredo Boselli
“What Shall I Render to the Lord…”
It is impossible for us, by ourselves, to make a just return to the Lord for all He has given to us. But “with the Lord, nothing is impossible.”
Like Eve in the Garden
“The fruit in my hands was not forbidden but simply forgotten.” — Fr. Brent Maher
Altar Servers Caught In The Act?
These altar boys are going to get in trouble.
The Supreme Court & Traditional Liturgy
In my opinion, Fr. Paul Scalia’s face resembles that of his father (Justice Antonin Scalia) … but I could be completely wrong about this.
Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 7
Guided by this one principle, every parish: “will become a model in its own way, and the liturgical reform, in its essence and demands, will be happily fulfilled.” — Aurelio Porfiri
PHOTO: Cardinal Ratzinger Saying The Latin Mass
Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass in Weimar (Germany) in 1989 and 1999.
Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 5
Silence is one of the most important sounds of the liturgy.
Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 6
You will not make progress at your parish unless you understand Pope Benedict’s “Unbelievably Big Kite” theory.
Three Painless Ways To Begin Singing Propers … Without Losing Your Job
A peritus of the Council once suggested that certain parties detest the Mass Propers because they’re almost impossible to “hijack” with heterodox theology.
Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 4
Importing singers is the quickest way to get good music into your parish, even if it is only for one occasion.
Diary of Cardinal Antonelli (1964): “How Exactly Should The Vatican II Mass Look?”
If Pope Pius V or Gregory the Great were to come back, they ought to see that the Mass after Vatican II has substantially remained the same.” — Secretary of the Consilium
Inaccurate Statements About Translations Of The Mass Propers (A Pet Peeve)
The quickest way to make this clear to a skeptical priest or liturgist is to request that they bring you some Offertory antiphons from MR3. (They don’t exist!)