On the Wonder and Strangeness of Sacred Music
The Church’s liturgy, since it is the Passover Feast, has to bring us out of the world, out of Egypt. So it ought to have a certain “strangeness” about it.
Articles
Celibacy
Are We Beyond This?
Not-So-Ordinary Time
Ordinary Time doesn’t mean what you think it means, and even if it does, you’re probably wrong.
Irrefutable Proof That Some People Are Jerks
Verbal abuse of a mentally handicapped man was something hard to watch. But why do I mention such a thing on a Blog devoted to Sacred music?
An Inverted Culture
The Perils of Modernity
In This Time Above All
Lauding God Yet More Gloriously
Josquin’s Beautiful “Missa Pange Lingua” In Minnesota
St. Benedict Catholic Church in Duluth, Minnesota, will be hosting a Solemn High Mass (traditional Latin Mass), celebrated by the parish pastor, Father Eric Hastings, for the Ascension on Thursday evening at 7 p.m.
Does music keep kids quiet at Mass?
Maybe music is not the instant solution, but definitely a help.
02 • Lalemant Interviews: Dr. Jeremy Sienkiewicz
Does the Church really allow the Gospel to be replaced by excerpts from Machiavelli’s THE PRINCE? Seriously? Dr. Jeremy Sienkiewicz of Benedictine College chats about numerous topics, including the Mass Propers.
Adversity Builds Strength
Church musicians carry “battle scars” of the profession. We can all tell “war stories.” But Thomas à Kempis writes in “The Imitation of Christ,” “…the measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity—adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.”
CMAA President Has His Own “STAR” In Hollywood
Did you know a former president of the Church Music Association of America has his own STAR on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? That’s correct! Just like Michael Jackson, Rex Harrison, Alfred Hitchcock, Harrison Ford, and all the rest.
Music of High Artistic Value
The papal teaching addresses precisely the question of criteria; it does not attempt to teach people how to listen to music or how to discriminate different qualities of music. If such discriminatory abilities are lacking, the papal teaching can have no meaning for us.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Welcomed By Pope Francis
“The emeritus pope, who made the unprecedented decision to step down from his role in February, will now live in a converted monastery near current Pope Francis.” — New York Daily News
Live for the Moment
The temporal reality of the liturgy that cannot be bound by recordings.
Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #16
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”