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St. Thomas did not comment specifically on the custom of sprinkling the people with holy water prior to the principal Sunday Mass; but he did explain exactly why it’s a good idea to do such a thing.
The Church in which I was preaching happened to be one of those Churches which didn’t have the Blessed Sacrament in it, and my remark caused quite a stir.
“We are repeatedly assured that there was an Old Testament reading each Sunday morning, but that quite mysteriously these all vanished by the seventh century, and vanished leaving no memory that they had ever existed…” — Fr. John Parsons
“The present welter of discardable booklets, mimeographed sheets, divergent paperback hymnals, and so on … has unfortunate psychological effects.” — Dr. James Hitchcock
If I didn’t answer when he called, he’d keep calling my number over and over. If I still didn’t answer, he’d start calling my family members, including siblings who lived 900+ miles away!
Once upon a time there was a musician who thought he knew how Gregorian chant should be performed, and was very suspicious of the “semiologists.”
For me tradition is not going to the past, but going to the origins.
The 9/11 Memorial and Conveying Catharsis through Art
I hate asking people for money; and some Catholic organizations drive me crazy by constantly begging with an alarmist manner.
Can you imagine trying to feed your family in the year 1300AD?
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.
What about NOT having congregational song during the Offertory?
