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.
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Liturgical Translations
This is no hybrid: it’s an elegant, accurate, modern, unified English translation of the Graduale!
A Triple Cord: Liturgy, Aquinas, and CST
The traditional liturgy, the study of St. Thomas Aquinas, and Catholic social doctrine―these three things stand or fall together.
Jogues Illuminated Missal • Responsorial Psalm Sample Video
Free Responsorial Psalms
OF with an EF Priest
Why the EF seems to have all the good celebrants.
Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II
FREE DOWNLOAD of the complete score AND recordings.
The Mercy of God Makes Saints
Unmasking the Media’s Mythical Divide Between Popes
Homily: 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy)
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.
PREVIEW – Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II
Preview of the “Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II” Listen to the Gloria!
The Thoughtful Theologian reflects on the canonisations of 27 April 2014
God is Truth Itself, and so faith transcends reason, and elevates it without contradicting it.
Thirteen (13) Organ Accompaniments to “Missa de Angelis” (Mass VIII)
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+
“Soft Source of Calm Tranquillity”: The Quiet Mass
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.
VIDEO • Explaining the St. Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, & Gradual
Approved by the USCCB — 2014 Imprimatur from Bishop Slattery of Tulsa.
More unites us than divides us!
Musicians tend to be very “picky” people who don’t get along with one another.
Francis Thompson (1859 – 1907): Catholic, Addict, Poet
The intellect of the world has been corrupted. Francis Thompson is the antidote.