Top five resources for teaching chant to children
The staples in my bag for teaching Gregorian chant to an informal group of homeschoolers.
Articles
Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth On Sacrosanctum Concilium
“The singing of the Proper texts rather than the endless substitution of songs and hymns, are only now being seriously considered and implemented.” — Executive Director of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL)
Surprise! Musical Hierarchy in “Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship”
The priorities of what we should sing at mass are full of surprises for some. I hope in the end that the greater “surprise” will be in how our prayer is formed by what we sing. I hope this will be the most pleasant surprise of all.
Controversial Statements About The Mass Propers
The notion that the texts are there “to remind us that we should be singing something else” could not be further from the truth.
05 • Lalemant Interviews: Fr. Guy Nicholls
Rev. Fr. Guy Nicholls, an internationally-renowned expert on Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony, speaks about the Mass Propers in a “live” phone interview.
The Church Is Alive And Strong!
“The Church asks those who will lead and shepherd her communities of Faith to give up the possibility of marital love as a prophetic witness that there is something even more important to our happiness than even beautiful intimacy possible in Christian marriage.” — Archbishop Naumann, 18 May 2013
Discerning Changes in the Old Missal
Could there be room for legitimate changes to the Missal of 1962, the last typical edition of the traditional Roman Rite of Mass or the “extraordinary form”?
American Airlines & Anti-Catholic Lies
I took out my iPhone to record his exact words (“we don’t have any more airplanes”) and he called security on me. Classy.
An FYI on EP in the OF – Part 1
Part 1 of the Evening Prayer walkthrough series.
Poterack Vs. Tucker — Uh, Sort Of . . .
The Sacred Congregation of Rites and the Consilium issued a joint statement on December 29,1966 prohibiting profane music in church. When Consilium spokesman Monsignor Annibale Bugnini was asked at a press conference what was meant by “profane” music, he said that this referred to such things as “jazz” Masses and instruments such as the guitar.
Renewed By the Spirit
The New Evangelization & Pentecost
Sharing sacred music online
Putting books and booklets together by cut and paste.
What Is a “Performance” in Liturgy?
Seminarian Ryan G. Duns, writes, “…it’s not about me putting on a show, about making something happen. My Jesuit training and my musical training converge: I think I’ll be my best when I am noticed least, when I can get out of the way so that those who approach the Lord’s Table are treated, not to a dose of Duns, but to an encounter with the Risen One…”
The Distracting Prayer of the Faithful
Looking at the structure and flow of the liturgical action, the Prayer of the Faithful marks a most awkward caesura in the liturgical action. We would be better off without them.
An FYI on EP in the OF – Introduction
Celebrating Vespers well in your local parish.
