Sacred Music Colloquium XXI (Trailer)
A short film by Watershed which features live footage of the “Sacred Music Colloquium” (Church Music Association of America).
Articles
Antiphons for the Dog Days of Ordinary Time
Music for the Communion procession, even for the “summer slog.”
Returning Home
The Grace of the Assumption
Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #29
I will be releasing hundreds of these B/W religious line art drawings for free and instant download. These beautiful Catholic “woodcuts” were done with magnificent skill. “Download Free Traditional Catholic Clipart”
Monsignor Richard J. Schuler Has Been Vindicated
My dad used to say, “When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.”
The first ever Graduale Romanum in English?
Deacon Cunningham was responsible for an early effort to “English” the Roman Gradual, as Msgr. Schmitt would say.
More thoughts about Communion in the hand.
“At the same time, however, this reform cannot and does not repudiate the past. It tries to guard carefully.” — Cardinal Knox, writing on behalf of Pope Paul VI in 1974
Music for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Several FREE downloads of sacred music for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Dawkins Delusion
Faith As Evidence
Communion in the hand?
Catholics in America are free to receive the Holy Eucharist in their hands, but the way Cardinal Bernardin forced this issue is disturbing.
The Living Parish Hymn Book
Clearing up a mystery of childhood memories for certain Australians.
1949 Mass at the ruins of the Nagasaki Cathedral
Extraordinary photographs of a 1949 Pontifical Mass for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of St. Francis Xavier in Japan.
Reason for Encouragement
Great congregational singing points to great work being done by music directors and pastors all over the country. Know that your influence and reach may be much farther than you will ever dream or know.
Pope Francis’s Counsel: Do Not Waste What God Has Given Us
Pope Francis, no less than Pope Benedict, has a way of formulating universal principles of thought and action that apply to any number of related topics, including the sacred liturgy.
Reading Honestly
In which I’m tempted to do the same thing I am frustrated by another doing.