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“Who could have anticipated such a Renaissance of music-making in the desert of postmodernity? Yet this was but the first wave, and now we are enjoying a second…”
When I speak with Pope Francis, will I ask him to care about sacred music? No. Abuses of the liturgy? No, I will ask him about the root of these problems.
Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth will celebrate a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form this Friday evening in Philadelphia.
Some free resources for Cantor, Choir, and Organ for furthering the liturgical reform in your parish.
But why bring up this subject at all, when probably 95% of Catholic priests have no familiarity with Gregorian chant? • concerning the challenges of composing Gregorian chant in English+
“The problem is not pop music, but pop music in the liturgy.” — Aurelio Porfiri
“Simple English Choral Propers” by Jon Naples
Roosevelt was President while paralyzed. Churchill gave speeches but couldn’t pronounce “S” correctly. Surely, then, we can implement the Mass Propers with these 11 collections! • the Graduale Romanum has been set in English by many composers; here are some collections with audio samples+
Should Church music be fun? Yes!!!
Yes, God is merciful, but there is a limit to His mercy.
Public Domain Scores & Published Resources
I used to think Horowitz’s additions to the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody were the most amazing virtuoso display I ever heard. I was wrong.
It’s easy now to say that the disciples had nothing to fear since Jesus was so close. But that is not how it works in real life situations.
Planting the seeds for liturgical reform with a new book of old hymns.
Some mainstream resources are geared towards maximizing market share; there are a number of others, perhaps lesser known that have the words of St. Pius X and “Sacrosanctum Concilium” in mind.
