The Pipe Organ in Survival Mode
Organists can no longer take for granted the dominant use—or for that matter, any use of the organ despite anything Sacrosanctum Concilium states.
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.”
Organists can no longer take for granted the dominant use—or for that matter, any use of the organ despite anything Sacrosanctum Concilium states.
This is no hybrid: it’s an elegant, accurate, modern, unified English translation of the Graduale!
The traditional liturgy, the study of St. Thomas Aquinas, and Catholic social doctrine―these three things stand or fall together.
I’m happy that people want to gain the plenary indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday. But remember, you can also gain it on other occasions.
Free PDF downloads for “Mass of the Angels” organ accompaniments • Henri Potiron (1950), Achille Bragers (1937), Dr. Eugene Lapierre (1946), Franz Xaver Mathias (1906), Dr. Peter Wagner (1905), Monsignor Leo P. Manzetti (1906), Julius Bas (1906), and more+
Preview of the “Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II” Listen to the Gloria!
God is Truth Itself, and so faith transcends reason, and elevates it without contradicting it.
A poem set to music by Handel perfectly captures the feelings one has at a quiet low Mass. Here I try to say why this form of the Mass is so special and valuable.
Approved by the USCCB — 2014 Imprimatur from Bishop Slattery of Tulsa.
Musicians tend to be very “picky” people who don’t get along with one another.
The intellect of the world has been corrupted. Francis Thompson is the antidote.
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