Pipe Organ During Lent?
To withdraw the pipe organ no longer has the impact it once did.
“A much greater source of anxiety to Us is the style of action of those who maintain that liturgical worship should shed its sacred character, who foolishly say we should substitute for sacred items & furnishings ordinary common things in daily use.” —Pope Saint Paul VI (14 Oct 1968)
The last thing church musicians need is another collection of goofy, syrupy, mawkish hymns.
By March 1596 Marenzio had arrived in Poland. In October of that year, he directed a Mass he’d written in the form of an “echo.”
“Our hymnbooks know nothing of such a treasure as this, and give us pages of poor sentiment in doggerel lines by some tenth-rate modern versifier.” —Father Fortescue
“One person I spoke to frequently—although I never met him…” (?)
The word “Alleluia” changes to: “Praise be to Thee, O Lord, King of eternal glory.”
Ponder this statement by the prefect for the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (a.k.a. “CDW”).
This treatise (324 pages) is a “must read” for anyone who cares about liturgical music in the Catholic Church.
People often complain: “Catholic priests won’t pay a living wage for choir directors, yet gladly pay millions to purchase a pipe organ.”
Authentic sacred music should attract people. It should not drive them away.
“The Sacred Music Symposium was a vehicle of grace that changed my life.” —2019 Participant
We paid to have this extremely rare book scanned professionally.
The truth is stranger than fiction.
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