Repugnant Rhymes in Hymns
This stuck out like a sore thumb.
“Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death?” —The Vatican’s chief liturgist from 2014-2021; interview with Edw. Pentin (23-Sep-2019)
We have a wide range of expertise: from experienced choristers (some with music degrees) to a gentleman who’d never sung in a choir in his life before joining.
From what I have seen, musicians tend to be the best liturgists…
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I prepared…
Doesn’t it stand to reason that we should sing from this edition in the manner its creators intended?
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I prepared…
Fully harmonized, including fabulous (optional) verses from the New Testament.
The authentic Gregorian Chant version begins the same way “Salve, Sancta Parens” begins…
Download this book—129 pages!—free of charge as a PDF: “The Trapp Family Book of Christmas Songs.”
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I have prepared for the Feast of the Holy Family.
Imagine blaming the rise of Adolf Hitler on the Church’s immemorial use of a ‘lingua sacra’ during Mass!
This 2024 collection incorporates responsorial psalms by many composers, particularly Catholic composers associated with Cambridge University.
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” we used at our Christmas Midnight Mass.
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