What Can Be Done With Only Two Cantors?
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Brave Schola Director Posts Live Recording
This is a beautiful melody worth learning, worth singing, and worthy of the temple.
PDF Download • “Can A Hymnal Be Too Catholic?”
Can Protestant translations be dangerous? This paper presents items worth considering.
“Catholic Sensibility” • What Makes A Hymnal Catholic?
I personally find the following pairings (hymn text + hymn melody) to be reprehensible…
Gregorian Chant • Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel
From a rare book of Franciscan chants (1902)
New CD release from the FSSP in Europe!
Christmas Matins from Bavaria…
“Easy Polyphonic Agnus Dei” • Part 3 of 3
The ability of your singers to sight-read music instantly does not guarantee a good performance.
“A Truly Eucharistic Hymn” • Christ the King (SATB)
Did Vatican II “restore” the hymns—as mandated by §93 of Sacrosanctum Concilium?
Clarion Call To All Choirmasters! • (26 Sept.)
Forty images of (IMHO) the patron saints of church musicians.
“Homily for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
“In our day and age I think it is good that we all be reminded that Christ will eventually overcome his enemies.”
PDF Download • Three Myths About Hymns
Did you know Catholics began translating hymns from Latin into the vernacular about 400 years before the Protestant Revolution?
Reflections On A Prophetic Document
There is much here to contemplate, written by a man with a deep reverence for the Sacred Liturgy and Music of the church…
[re-post] • “Hymn for the Feast of All Saints”
All Saints—November 1st—will be here before you know it!
PDF Download • “Old Catholic Missal” (1909) … for the Schismatic “See of Utrecht”
Readers will enjoy perusing this book.
“Hand-Communion?” • Provocative Quotes
“Accepting Vatican II” seems to mean deliberately contradicting the actual documents of Vatican II.
