PDF Download • “Quinquagesima Sunday” Organ Accompaniment Booklet (25 pages)
The word “Alleluia” changes to: “Praise be to Thee, O Lord, King of eternal glory.”
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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.
The songs and hymns were pleasantly familiar … to the point where after twelve years I could play by heart every song in the ‘Breaking Bread’ hymnal.
There must have been a need for such a booklet, otherwise he would not have gone to the trouble of creating it!
If your priest approaches you after Mass and says the music sounded horrible, it’s incorrect to reply: “Well, that’s how it’s supposed to be.”
“Work hasn’t even begun on the next Lectionary, and there’s nothing definite about 2028 as a date.” — Father Andrew V. Menke, director of the USCCB liturgical committee
In addition to this rare book by Max Springer (870 pages), I release the draft copy of a new Gregorian project (157 pages).
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We’re under tremendous pressure to transfer our website to a “subscription model.”
We don’t want to do this. We believe our website should remain free to all. It’s annoying to have to search for login credentials (e.g. if you’re away from your desk).
Our president has written the following letter:
* Thirteen Men & Coins (Holy Thursday Appeal)
Traditionally on Holy Thursday, the priest washed the feet of thirteen men. Theologians held various opinions regarding whom the “13th man” represented. Before the liturgical changes of Pope Pius XII (which changed the number from thirteen to twelve), the priest washed each man’s feet, kissed his foot, and gave him a coin.
This “coin” business seems providential—inasmuch as our appeal begins on Holy Thursday this year.
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