Do-It-Yourself Hymnal: The impossible dream
There is no such thing as a perfect hymnbook or missal.
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Luke’s Second Book
High Drama
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Hope and Prayer in this Valley of Tears
In Boston we send up our sighs, our mourning, and our weeping in this valley of tears. Great suffering compels us to move towards Christ, and Christ in turn embraces us lovingly in his comforting embrace. Therefore, the sacred liturgy is essential at the time, more than ever.
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On Correcting Deviant Liturgical Customs
The longer the hermeneutic of rupture and its expressions are allowed to continue, the longer a “Great Schism” between the preconciliar and postconciliar periods will be perpetuated. There is a real, pressing, desperate need for healing, reconciliation, and reunification.
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Acts of the Apostles
“They Could Not Withstand the Wisdom & Spirit with Which He Spoke”
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Just Pick Up a Pencil and Do It.
Short and sweet regarding composing.
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Benedict XVI Turns 86 Years Old
His first birthday as Pope Emeritus. This is a really nice video honoring His Holiness.
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Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #14
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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Fr. George Rutler Weighs In On The Campion Missal
“Attractively, even elegantly, produced, the appearance of this Missal and Hymnal is appropriate to the high quality of the contents . . .” — Rev. George William Rutler
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Not a movie. This was real.
This attack happened within my parish. St. Cecilia Parish in the Back Bay section of Boston, is around the block from the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Several historic churches literally surround the finish line. So where is God in all of this?
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Shouting Our Faith from the Rooftops
Suffering for the Sake of the Name
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Maternal Heart of Mary Chapel (Sydney, Australia)
The liturgy there is beautiful. Sunday Mass usually begins with a rousing organ prelude. Then the priest intones the Asperges . . .
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Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani (1890-1979)
“The rite of Holy Mass should not be treated as if it were a piece of cloth to be refashioned according to the whim of each generation.”
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Does Having Children Make Us Better at Our Jobs?
Working for the Church is often not conducive to family life. But, in my children, I found God. Children have helped me focus on what and who is important.
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PDF Download • Instruction on Sacred Music (“De Musica Sacra”) • Issued by Pope Pius XII in 1958
Don’t you hate it when you think you know the answer to something . . . and then you find out you were dead wrong? This happened to me regarding the congregation reciting Mass Propers in the Extraordinary Form.
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