Palestrina • Jaw-Dropping “Kyrie” based on a Hymn
Two generous young ladies, currently in high school, helped me record this gorgeous Kyrie.
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Priests as Ordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
A Duty That Is Not Ours to Surrender
Sacrament of Confirmation (EF) • “Fully Notated Confirmation Prayers”
You Will Want To Download These! • Written-out (“notated”) sheets for the Rite of Confirmation in the Extraordinary Form.
Baptisms in the Extraordinary Form
Reflections on a Recent Experience
The Phrasing of the Sanctus
The Difference a Comma Makes
Too Many Options
Allowing Adolescents to Choose Their Faith & the Wide-Open Permissions of the GIRM
Changing The Good Friday Prayer For The Jews
“Christianity is the perfect development of the Jewish religion…” —Fr. Leslie Rumble
Vesting Prayers • Part 1 of 9
Over the coming weeks, I will present a series of reflections on the vesting prayers.
Wrapped in the Liber Usualis
A scarf adorned with pages from the Liber Usualis. Why not?
Twelve (12) PDF Guides To Pronouncing Latin
Fr. Carlo Rossini’s is probably the best, but 11 more are also provided.
An Essential & Unique Thing For Holy Thursday
…and a look at Holy Thursday from the 1965 Missal.
Pastoral Difficulties with Recently Ordained Priests
A Response to a Post at “Pray Tell”
Some Thoughts On “Englishing” Gregorian Chant
But why bring up this subject at all, when probably 95% of Catholic priests have no familiarity with Gregorian chant? • concerning the challenges of composing Gregorian chant in English+
Mass Propers In English
Roosevelt was President while paralyzed. Churchill gave speeches but couldn’t pronounce “S” correctly. Surely, then, we can implement the Mass Propers with these 11 collections! • the Graduale Romanum has been set in English by many composers; here are some collections with audio samples+
The “Children’s Liturgy of the Word”
Are We Past This Yet?