PDF Download • “What Child Is This” (Harmonized by the Von Trapp Family Singers)
Download this book—129 pages!—free of charge as a PDF: “The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs.”
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
Download this book—129 pages!—free of charge as a PDF: “The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs.”
Imagine blaming the rise of Adolf Hitler on the Church’s immemorial use of a ‘lingua sacra’ during Mass!
This 2024 collection incorporates responsorial psalms by many composers, particularly Catholic composers associated with Cambridge University.
Jeff Ostrowski answers a reader’s question with nine (9) statements.
Notice how Dom Franquesa (without explanation) stealthily annihilates sacrifice, sin, and the adoration we owe God.
Father Friel holds a Doctorate in Liturgical Studies from the Catholic University of America…
A different version was requested. I was able to complete that task earlier today.
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Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
Musical scholars are divided on whether the modes are a useful way to think about music, but I’m convinced they are. In the seventeenth century, musicians created a fruitful and lasting link between the eight modes and eight particular keys called the church keys.
In my view, this one falls within the “Top Ten” list of Christmas carols.
“It results in a heavy burden being placed upon musicians to ensure that whatever they do is well-liked by all—lest the faithful complain (seemingly the great worry of many priests).” —Dr. Lucas Tappan
“My most important vocation is not that of a musician but as a husband and a father to my four children.” —Richard J. Clark
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