Never Do This. Just Say “No.”
Ruth Slenczynska wasn’t right about everything … but she was right about this.
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“Missa de Jerry Seinfeld” and Praying as a Family
What I will remember most is that I knelt side by side with my daughter during the consecration. I will remember reciting the Creed in my fidgety three-year-old son’s ear as I held him.
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Silence (Part 2 of 3)
If the conditions for recollection are never present in our lives, if we do not fight to create and guard such conditions, we will lose our awareness of divine mystery, as refreshing as springtime rains, and wander in a desert of superficiality.
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The Founding Of Corpus Christi Watershed
Imagine my astonishment to see the date assigned to us by the State of Texas back in 2006!
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The Organ Book of Adrian Fortescue
Charles Cole has saved me a trip!
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Making Your Bed
Show and tell. Mostly show.
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Interview about Campion Missal, 2nd Edition
“Our hope is that the Campion Missal, in spite of its flaws, will allow Catholics to assist at Mass with greater devotion.” —Jeff Ostrowski
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Something We Humans Detest: Hypocrisy!
“Members of this American liturgical/musical establishment continually boast about their flexibility and sensitivity, but they are in fact the most rigid and insensitive of the Church’s members, especially if one has the temerity to challenge them, their policies, their processes, or their programs.” — Paul Le Voir (1993)
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Pavane for a Dead Princess — Maurice Ravel
One thing I’ve wanted to do for years is write about the Jesuit Martyrs of North America and share their stories with the world. I have failed.
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Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #25
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”
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A Visual Catechism
Showing Forth the Beauty of God
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What’s new with the age old chant?
Gregorio has a wiki and ideas on typing up semiology.
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Chant Is Countercultural and Revolutionary
Chant does certain things exceedingly well that modern culture eschews. It stops time. It simultaneously quiets the soul and directs our attention to God . . . these things are abhorred by modern culture.
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Silence (Part 1 of 3)
The New Evangelization is a bold project, but it will not succeed unless we can recover a strong sense of the sacred, which the gift of silence in church will help us achieve.
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Bishop Fulton Sheen & Mass in Vietnamese
More than 100,000 persons saw and heard Church history in the making as Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York celebrated the first Pontifical Mass ever said in English.
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