“Three Reasons To Shun Bad Hymns” • Daniel B. Marshall
Ever wonder why the Church is so particular about sacred music? There’s more at stake than you think.
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
Ever wonder why the Church is so particular about sacred music? There’s more at stake than you think.
This one book contains and memorializes every horrible idea from the 1980s.
Not long ago, I received a weird telephone call from a man appointed “director of music” for a large USA diocese.
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
Readers have expressed interest in examining the “music list” I prepared for this coming Sunday.
“That’s not just music. That’s Catholicism at its most apostolic, most bold, and most timeless.” —Julie Huebner
For the upcoming feast on 9 November (which replaces the Sunday Mass).
This is quite a clever arrangement of “Come down, O love divine.”
Below are three compositions I’ve used with great success…
Looking through a (Roman Catholic) German hymnal printed in 1952…
What is the specific criteria for this most recent tinkering?
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