Vesting Prayers • Part 1 of 9
Over the coming weeks, I will present a series of reflections on the vesting prayers.
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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?
Antiphons in the Gradual don’t match the Roman Missal, 3rd edition?
Why aren’t the Propers from the Roman Gradual identical to the Mass Propers printed in the Roman Missal? • “Recent research … has made it clear that the antiphons of the Order of Mass were never intended to be sung.” — Bishop Donald Trautman (2007)+
PDF Download • 1974 “Graduale Romanum”
“How can we celebrate this new rite when we have not yet got a complete missal, and there are still so many uncertainties about what to do?” — Pope Paul VI (1969 General Audience)+
Comparing Canons
Does Using Eucharistic Prayer II Really “Save Time”?
Free Download • “Liber Usualis” PDF Online (Solesmes, 1961)
Free PDF download of the complete “Liber Usualis with Introduction and Rubrics in English—with IMPRIMATUR dated 7 February 1961—edited by the Benedictine Monks of Solesmes+
Lovely, If Unfamiliar
Duc in Altum