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  • ► 2023 (99)
    • ► March (28)
      • “Go!” • The Word That Changed My Life Forever
      • Vespers Booklet (4th Sunday of Lent)
      • At the Cross • Stabat Mater
      • Summer Ward Method Courses • CUA 2023
      • PDF Download • Vespers Organ Accomp. Booklet (4th Sunday of Lent) — 24 pages
      • Mass and Motets
      • Sneaky “Salicus” Statements by Solesmes
      • “Lætáre Jerúsalem” • Introit (4th Sunday of Lent)
      • “Solesmes Ictus” • Can It Be Justified? (Examples)
      • Ictus Fictus!
      • Rhetoric, Number, Measure, and Historicism
      • Vespers Booklet, 3rd Sunday of Lent
      • Chant Glossary
      • The Cathedral and Diocese of Leeds Expands Its Musical Outreach Yet Again
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Clap Your Hands!” (10 Mar 2023)
      • PDF Download • Belgian “Ordinary of the Mass” (Organ Accompaniment) — 191 pages
      • Beauty Ever Ancient, Ever New
      • Weeping For Joy! (We Hope!)
      • PDF Download • “Spanish Missal for the Traditional Latin Mass” (Madrid, 1961) — 860 pages!
      • Grant Awarded for Digitizing Over 400,000 Pages of Ancient Solesmes Manuscripts
      • Pipe Organ During Lent?
      • Alfred Calabrese leads choir on EWTN with Archbishop Cordileone
      • Crd. Roche Breaks His Silence Re: Cardinal Sarah
      • Absolute Key to a Healthy and “Renewed” Choir
      • Patrick’s Second Response to Matthew
      • “Fifty-Seven (57) Sample Pages” • Brébeuf Hymnal
      • Obedience In Sacred Music, Liturgy • Matthew Frederes Answers Patrick Williams
      • “Greatest Choral Piece Ever Written” • What Is It?
    • ► February (33)
      • Patrick Williams Responds to Matthew Frederes
      • “The Times” mentions CCW
      • An Interview on Mocquereau's Method
      • Do We Need a Beautiful Cento, or an Archaic Reversion?
      • Eleven (11) Rare Lenten Hymns You’ve Not Sung!
      • Roche’s Rescript • “Canonically Binding? Yes or No?”
      • Has this all been our fault?
      • Blackley’s Sunday Mass Propers Now Available as Free PDF
      • New Album from the Boys of Saint Paul's Choir School
      • Marier’s Majestic Music • In Singapore?
      • My Wish for Each of You
      • Lenten Reflection: Can We Enjoy What Lies Ahead?
      • PDF Download • “Quinquagesima Sunday” Organ Accompaniment Booklet (25 pages)
      • Jeff’s Attempt At Singing
      • Three-Voice Piece You'll Love!
      • Pray (At Least) As Much As You Practice
      • Father Peter Van Lieshout • “Homily on Sacred Music”
      • Cardinal Roche on discouraging or limiting “ad orientem” celebration: “It is an absurdity”
      • PDF • 2014 Dissertation: “Plainchant Influence on the Liturgical Music of Dr. Marier” (324 pages)
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Liturgical Recitative” (15 Feb 2023)
      • Please Accept This Advice!
      • “Sexagesima Vespers” • Organist Booklet
      • Hymn for the Season of Septuagesima? • Yes!
      • PDF Download • “Gorgeous Image!”
      • 4 Tips • “Teaching & Nurturing Young Organists”
      • PDF Download • Symposium Kyrie Revealed
      • Did Pope Francis Just Publicly Rebuke the Prefect of Divine Worship?
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “The Normal Syllabic Value” (6 Feb 2023)
      • Hymn by Cardinal Newman
      • Church Music Shouldn’t Be “Headache-Inducing”
      • Introit • Candlemas (2 February)
      • Simplified Antiphons • “Candlemas”
      • Filling Up Fast! • Sacred Music Symposium
    • ► January (38)
      • Tempo?? • 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘥, 𝘞𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘺 𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘦
      • PDF Download • Belgian Book of Gregorian Accompaniments (Official Edition)
      • Don't You Agree About These?
      • Choral Vowels? Yes? No?
      • Crucial Tip For Choir Directors
      • Father Herbert Thurston • “I Fear the Man With One Book”
      • 26 January 2023 • FEEDBACK
      • Symposium Draft Schedule Released!
      • What is the Tonic Accent?
      • Good Friday Polyphony by L. Senfl
      • PDF Download • 1909 “Modern Notation” Gradual (Extremely Rare) — 712 Pages
      • Folk Mass Clip • Priest Facing “Ad Orientem”
      • Coming Soon! • Symposium 2023
      • “Have We Gone Mainstream?”
      • “On Eagles' Wings?” • I Found Something Better!
      • Hidden Gem: Adoro Te Devote (Carlotta Ferrari)
      • PDF Download • “Keenly Rare!” • Gregorian Chant Booklet on 5 Lines (1920) — 326 Pages
      • Church Music • “Should It Make Your Congregation Happy or Sad?”
      • Desperate! • Needing help after robbery
      • Getting More Mileage out of a Polyphonic Requiem
      • PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment Booklet” (25 pages) — Vespers, 2nd Sunday after Epiphany
      • Introducing The Saint Hildegard Project
      • Video • “Counting Gregorian Chant” … according to Dom Mocquereau's Method
      • New Lectionary for the USA • Coming in 2028?
      • Hymn Experiment • “Does This Work?”
      • PDF Download • Max Springer's Gradual in Modern Notation (870 pages) — Extravagantly Rare!
      • Which Hymnal Did Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Endorse?
      • What Exactly Is Dr. Peter Wagner Talking About?
      • “Solesmes Method” • Where was it developed?
      • PDF Download • The Official Funeral Booklet for Pope Benedict XVI (37 pages)
      • PDF Download • Ancient Christmas Hymn with Modern Harmonies (4 pages)
      • Document restricting the Latin Mass “broke Pope Benedict's heart” says Archbishop Gänswein
      • FEEDBACK … from New Hampshire
      • 2 January 2023 • FEEDBACK
      • “Sacred Time” Framed on our Wall
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Chorale and Chant Carefully Considered” (2 Jan 2023)
      • PDF Download • Extremely Rare! • Gregorian Accompaniments (513 pages)
      • Revealed! • Ratzinger wrote to FSSP after “Traditionis Custodes”
  • ► 2022 (307)
    • ► December (37)
      • “Requiescat In Pace” • Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
      • “… Ripped From A Live-Feed …”
      • PDF • “Silent Night” Harmonization
      • PDF Download • “What Child Is This?” • Jeff’s Arrangement of This Carol … in Latin!
      • 23 December 2022 • FEEDBACK
      • John G. Dunn • 1943-2022 • Requiescat In Pace
      • Five Tips for Saving Your Body During Christmas Liturgies
      • The Christmas Sequence: Laetabundus
      • Choirmasters • “How To Avoid Getting Fired”
      • 19 Dec. 2022 • “Include The Congregation?”
      • “Can You Help?” • (Not asking for $ $ $ )
      • 19 Dec. 2022 • “This One Has It All”
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Patrick’s Third Response to Jeff” (19 Dec 2022)
      • J.S. Bach “Alleluia” • Director Posts Live Recording!
      • Young Boys Who “Play” Mass
      • PDF Download • “Veni, Veni Emmanuel” for 2 parts
      • Available Now! • 4th Sunday of Advent
      • To Us the Path of Knowledge Show
      • Announcement of Easter & the Moveable Feasts • El Anuncio de la Pascua y Fiestas Movibles • 2023
      • Mary is the Immaculate Conception … does that mean that God loves her more?
      • PDF • “Rorate Mass Musical Booklet” (39 pages)
      • PDF Download • 1938 “White List of Sacred Music” (Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa) — 114 pages!
      • Who Can Guess This Melody? • (Rorate Mass)
      • PDF Download • “Advent Eucharistic Hymn”
      • Recent Book! • “The Politics of Plainchant”
      • “Introit” (3rd Sunday of Advent) • Sung According the Church's Official Rhythm
      • PDF Download • “Kyriale Accompaniment Book” by Dr. Peter Wagner (138 pages)
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “The Limits of History”
      • “24 Sample Pages” • The Saint Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Gradual, and Lectionary
      • “Advent Kyrie” • Plainsong w/ Organ
      • PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment Booklet” • Vespers (3rd Sunday of Advent) — 23 pages
      • PDF Download • “Salve Regina” [Simplex] • An Elegant English Translation (2022)
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Jeff’s Second Response to Patrick” (6 Dec 2022)
      • “Urbanite Hymns” • What are those?
      • PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment Booklet: Vespers (2nd Sunday of Advent) — 27 pages
      • “Do this immediately!” • (Dec. 2022)
      • PDF Download • “Latin Christmas Carol” for SATB + Organ • By Gustaaf Nees (d. 1965)
    • ► November (39)
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “History Matters” (30 Nov 2022)
      • “Advent Hymn” • Composed by Flor Peeters
      • 28 November 2022 • FEEDBACK
      • Photographs • Weinmann “Graduale” on 5 Lines!
      • Five Pro Tips for Amateur Choirs
      • PDF Download • “1st Sunday of Advent”
      • Advent Hymn Experiment
      • “Trochee Trouble” • Say What?
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “On the Nuance Theory of Plainchant”
      • PDF Download • Traditional Notation Gradual-Book (692 Pages) on Five Lines!
      • Join Your Parish Choir! • Why We Sing as a Faith Community
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Repercussion and the Mora Vocis” (21 Nov 2022)
      • PDF Download • “How Does the Official Rhythm Actually Sound?”
      • Reverence: Feeling or Action?
      • Directing Choirs • “Do You Have What It Takes?”
      • “Progress Made!” • 10-Nov-2022
      • Mark Your Calendars!
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Feedback from Dom Stephen Concordia”
      • “A Mother’s New Missal” • Part 1
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Disputed Questions” (16 Nov 2022)
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Patrick's Second Response To Jeff” (16 Nov 2022)
      • PDF Download • Rare “Kyriale” Organ Accompaniment Book (175 pages)
      • A God We Cannot “See”
      • Help Me Banish ‘Wimpy’ Hymn Texts!
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Charlie's First Response to Jeff” (13 Nov 2022)
      • PDF Download • “Gregorian Accompaniments” … Just in time for Advent! (366 pages)
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Jeff's First Response to Patrick” (12 Nov 2022)
      • This Coming Sunday's Introit
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Frederes Feedback”
      • Blase Cardinal Cupich Responds Directly to Me!
      • “Vatican Commission on Gregorian Chant” • Biographies for Its Twenty Members
      • “Whoever controls the language controls the Masses.”
      • Remembering Mr. Tom Savoy • “Requiescat in pace.”
      • 4 November 2022 • “Don't forget!”
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Doubled Notes”
      • Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Patrick's First Response to Jeff” • (3 Nov 2022)
      • “Now Available!” • Campion Missal (3rd Edition)
      • “Death stops us; it stops our race.” —Saint Newman
      • “Gregorian Chant Rhythm Wars” • Ostrowski Vs. Williams
    • ► October (25)
      • “Christ the King” • Introit
      • 29 October 2022 • FEEDBACK
      • “To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King” • Melody Comes From Where?
      • “Dates Revealed” • 2023 Sacred Music Symposium
      • An Upcoming Concert in NYC
      • “Beginning with the End in Mind” • Adoration, Thanksgiving, Atonement, Petition
      • “Vespers of the Dead” • Most Elaborate Book of Hours I've Ever Seen
      • Hidden Gem: Dormi Jesu (Luc Jakobs)
      • PDF Download • Plainchant on 5 lines!
      • 19 October 2022 • Feast of Saint Isaac Jogues & Companions
      • PDF Download • “Hymn List For Sundays” (until 8 December 2022)
      • “Hymn By A Saint” • For All Saints (November 1st)
      • USCCB • “Principal Music Books for the Eucharist”
      • This Sunday’s Introit • “Official” Rhythm
      • “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made” • New album from Richard Kelley & Richard J. Clark
      • PDF Download • “Liber Cantualis”
      • PDF Download • “Salve Regina” Chant in English (Four Different Versions)
      • PDF Download • 1915 “Gregorian Vesperale” … Printed On Five Lines! (651 Pages)
      • Feedback • “Not Happy With Your Article”
      • “Times & Locations” • Traditional Latin Masses in the Diocese of Arlington
      • “Chord Pausing” • Choir Warm-Ups
      • The Solesmes Episema and Contemplation
      • “Bravery!” • Schola Director Posts 'Live' Recording
      • “Portable organ shall be lowered…”
      • “Released” • A Eucharistic Hymn You’ll Love!
    • ► September (28)
      • Solmization from the Inside: Part 2
      • PDF Download • SATB “Alleluia” by J.S. Bach
      • “What Is Polyphony?” • With Audio Examples
      • Say “Hello” to the Villain Who Lied About You
      • “North American Martyrs” • Stained Glass Window
      • “Nobody Cares About This” • (Except Me!)
      • Saint Brigid’s School • New Choir School for the Cathedral of Saint Mary (San Francisco)
      • Why Text Only?
      • “My Reflections” • Re: 2022 Symposium Keynote
      • PDF Download • Brief Polyphonic “Asperges Me” for SATB by Father Guerrero (d. 1599)
      • Official USCCB Synod Document: “The Limited Access to the 1962 Missal Was Lamented…”
      • “Choral Eavesdropping” • 15 Sept. 2022
      • “An Irish Hymnal?” • 126 Pages (English and Gaelic)
      • Adding More Spaces around Bar Lines in Gregorio
      • “Did Bishop Burbidge Violate Canon 932 in Order to Punish His Flock?”
      • “Isolation Camps” for Summórum Catholics?
      • PDF Download • 2-Voice Eucharistic Hymn by Flor Peeters (45 pages) • Includes a Descant!
      • Pre-Reformation Polyphony among the Recusants
      • PDF Download • “Choir Warm-Up Exercise”
      • “Defending the English” • Brief Riposte from Uganda
      • The Decaffeinated Choir Director: Yes, It's Possible
      • Feedback: “The Lack of Charity in Your Statement Stuns Me!” • Defending the English
      • “Pronouncing the Responses at Mass” • Phonetic Booklet for Altar Boys (Latin Mass)
      • “British Polyphony” • The Best 55 Seconds In Music!
      • PDF Download • “Organ Interludes—including pedals—on Plainchant Melodies” (55 pages)
      • International Gregorian Chant Conference
      • New Release! • “Four Eucharistic Motets” (34 Pages)
      • “Face-To-Face” • Card. Roche + Pope Emeritus B16
    • ► August (29)
      • “This Hymnal Makes My Heart Sing!” —Lauren E.
      • “Intriguing Quote” • Msgr. Richard J. Schuler
      • PDF Download • “Tantum Ergo” Two-Part Interlude (Manuals Only) by Flor Peeters
      • “Did The Pope Really Say That?” • Re: Solesmes Rhythm
      • Heavy Crosses Borne by Choirmasters
      • PDF Download • Mocquereau on Trochee Trouble
      • Have You Done This?
      • “New Gregorian Chant Project” • Part 2
      • PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for Kyrie VIII (“Missa de Angelis”) by Jeff Ostrowski
      • “Guillaume Couture Gregorian Chant” • (Plainsong)
      • An Incredible Summer with Wonderful Musicians
      • “New Section 2” • (Piecemeal Agnus Dei)
      • Faculty Members on Sacred Music Symposium 2022
      • PDF Download • Extremely Rare! — 1913 “Vesperale” by Schwann (954 pages)
      • PDF • “Organ Interludes” (Manuals Only)
      • PDF Download • Organ Interludes Based on Plainsong (Manuals Only) — 104 pages!
      • “Wild Accompaniment” • Flor Peeters (Kyrie VIII)
      • 5 Ways to Make Your Music Program More Marian
      • “Could Women Sing At Mass Before Vatican II?”
      • “The Memory Will Stay With Me Forever.” —Helen Tsang, who flew 7,797 miles
      • PDF Download • “Salve Regina” (32 Versions)
      • For the Upcoming Choir Season!
      • The continuity and vulnerability of the Novus Ordo
      • “Me? A Singer?” - Harrison's Personal Testimony
      • Need Easy Organ Pieces? Try This Little-Known Composer
      • Sequence For Martin Luther? • (Sung to the melody of “Victimae Paschali Laudes”)
      • QfoR (“Questions From Our Readers”) • A New Series
      • C-SPAN Clip (1988) • “Return of the Latin Mass?”
      • “From a Recent Convert” • Symposium Review
    • ► July (26)
      • PDF Download • “Contemporary Sanctus” (SATB)
      • Isabella Marie • “My Personal Testimony”
      • PDF Comparison Chart • “Which Has More Scripture?” — Ordinary or Extraordinary Form?
      • Church Music Jobs • “March 2023” Installment
      • Open Letter to Bishop Roche • “12 Considerations”
      • Breaking! • Official Release of “Stowe Missal Eucharistic Motets” for 3 voices (Kevin Allen)
      • Free Folio of New Sacred Music for Parish Liturgies
      • Pothier Teaches Us to Sing an Antiphon
      • PDF Download • Professionally-Scanned “Graduale Romanum” (Schwann, 1908) • 1,129 pages!
      • The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception
      • [video] • “Heartfelt Plea To Cardinal DiNardo”
      • “Hymn For Mary’s Assumption” (15 August) • By Saint Robert Southwell, Priest & Martyr
      • “Truly Wonderful Quote” • Dr. Roger Wagner
      • PDF Download • Plainsong Settings for Voice & Organ … in English! (957 pages)
      • “To go to Mass together will be the light of Sunday for a family.” — Pope Benedict XVI (2005)
      • “By day 4, tears were running down my face.”
      • PDF Download • “Sunday Vespers” (22 pages)
      • FSSP Guadalajara • “Conferencia de Musica Sagrada”
      • 11 July 2022 • FEEDBACK
      • Gregorian Chant • Its “True” Rhythm
      • “Do You Know This Hymn Composer?” • Orlando Gibbons (d. 1623)
      • PDF Download • “High Resolution Image”
      • “I'll be back next year … but with my entire choir!”
      • “Chant Rhythm Wars” • Dueling Lectures!
      • Across the Pacific • Alto is “Raving”
      • “I Decided to Get a Plane Ticket and Fly 8,700 Miles From Singapore to Take Part.”
    • ► June (24)
      • Alabama Assessment!
      • “How Has Nobody Done This Before?” • First Installment
      • “Exceeded Every Expectation!” • Mr. O'Brien's Review
      • “81 Photos” • Sacred Music Symposium 2022
      • Photograph • Dom André Mocquereau (d. 1930)
      • “I Found Myself Weeping, Almost In Disbelief…”
      • Our Daily Prayer • Sacred Music Symposium 2022
      • PDF Download • “Polyphony For Choirs” (262 Pages)
      • What. Did. My. Eyes. Just. See.
      • “You Are Invited” • Solemn Mass sung by 95 singers!
      • “Stowe Missal Eucharistic Motets” • For 3 Voices
      • PDF Download • Trinity Sunday (22 pages)
      • Composing Your Own Antiphons?
      • 10 June 2022 • “Official” rhythm of plainsong
      • New Release! • “Missa de Beata Virgine” (Kevin Allen)
      • “Chorister Summer Camp” • Eight Ideas
      • 7 June 2022 • FEEDBACK
      • “An Unknown Parishioner Approached Me…”
      • PDF Download • (Organ Accompaniment)
      • Revelation • “Re: The Official Rhythm”
      • 3 June 2022 • FEEDBACK
      • Another Incredible Opportunity in Kansas City!
      • 1 June 2022 • FEEDBACK
      • The Official Chant Rhythm • “How Does It Sound?”
    • ► May (31)
      • Kevin Allen • “What is Sacred Music?”
      • 28 May 2022 • “Pristine” Vatican Rhythm
      • On Mistakes (Part II of II)
      • 27 May 2022 • FEEDBACK
      • PDF Download • “Spanish TLM Missal” (2,288 pages)
      • Summer Courses in Sacred Music in New York
      • 25 May 2022 • FEEDBACK
      • CCWatershed Is In Financial Trouble!
      • The USCCB desires your input!
      • Review • A Catholic Book of Hymns
      • 23 May 2022 • FEEDBACK
      • PDF Download • “A Canon Choirs Love!”
      • On Mistakes (Part I of II)
      • 19 May 2022 • “Trochee Trouble”
      • “Gregorian Chant Not In Danger Pope Tells French”
      • PDF Download • “O Salutaris” (Modern Setting)
      • Summer Ward Method Courses • CUA 2022
      • PDF Download • 2022 “Vespers Booklet” (99 Pages)
      • “Playing the Pipe Organ” • By Richard Nixon
      • 16 May 2022 • Harmonized Chant?
      • Prayer of Abandonment,  Saint Charles de Foucauld
      • Worst Chanting I've Ever Heard
      • 14 May 2022 • “Pure” Vatican Edition
      • 14 May 2022 • Gorgeous Book
      • Musician-Saints Throughout the Ages
      • “Big Reveal” by the Symposium Committee
      • Quote: “A weekend our choir will not soon forget!”
      • A Curious Rhythmic Detail in Tomorrow's Jubilus
      • “Yes or No?” • Thoughts On Singing The Creed
      • “Repertoire Page” • Sacred Music Symposium 2022
      • Sound Familiar?
    • ► April (16)
      • A “Dirty” Word (For Musicians)
      • Choirs Love This Piece!
      • Choir Directors • “Is It Worth The Struggle?”
      • { Next Year! } • Somber Kyrie Settings For Lent
      • Holy Thursday Introit • “Pure” Vaticana
      • Kevin Allen's “Dómine Convértere” Sung At Saint Peter's Basilica (Vatican City)
      • “Ah, Holy Jesus, How Hast Thou Offended?”
      • PDF Download • SATB “Refrain” for Good Friday
      • PDF Download • “Palm Sunday Hymn”
      • “Schizophrenia” • Pius XII Annihilated Tenebræ
      • PDF Download • “Regina Caeli for 3 Voices”
      • “Victimæ Paschali Laudes” • Nineteen (19) Organ Accompaniments
      • Free Organ Accompaniment • “Vexilla Regis”
      • It is time. Sacred Song and the Kingdom of God
      • “Hymn To Saint Joseph” • (Rec. 4/2/2022)
      • Gregorian Chant • “Its True & Authentic Rhythm”
    • ► March (16)
      • Cardinal Schönborn Consecrates “IKEA Altar”
      • PDF Download • “Missa Philomena” (Philippe Verdelot) — Part 1 has been added.
      • “Extraordinary Form” • Is This Name Still Allowed?
      • “Ah, Holy Jesus” • Lent + Passiontide Hymn
      • Names Have Been Revealed!
      • “Three Hymns for Lent” • (Rec. 03/10/2022)
      • “To Hear Before You Die” • Essential Listening Guide
      • PDF Download • “Audi Benigne Conditor” (Organ Accompaniment)
      • “Church Music” • Opportunity of a Lifetime!
      • PDF • “Hymn Suggestions For Each Sunday”
      • Surprise! • Bas PDF from Paris
      • “Like None Other!” • New Three-Voice Collection
      • “Communion Hymn For Lent” • (Rec. 3/4/2022)
      • IMPORTANT • Stunning News From Rome!
      • Marvelous News From Pope Francis!
      • Does Your Musical Program Have Balance?
    • ► February (17)
      • PDF Download • Quinquagesima Vespers
      • FEEDBACK • 25 February 2022
      • PDF Download • Missa Philomena (Philippe Verdelot)
      • “Common” Hymn Tunes? • Another Example
      • Cardinal Cupich’s Diocese • “What Mass Looks Like”
      • PDF Download • No More OCP “Breaking Bread”
      • A Fugue that “explains” itself
      • Eucharistic Hymn • By a Jesuit Martyr Priest
      • Sound superb! … with just 2 minutes of rehearsal
      • “Alleluia” • Gone For Good?
      • Attention! • “15,283 Signatures … More Needed”
      • Breaking! • Bishop Lobsinger Forbids Spanish and French (for Confession & Last Rites)
      • “A New Era Of Church Music”
      • Ruth Slenczynska & “Traditionis Custodes”
      • Fr. Fortescue • “Sequences”
      • Seriously? • Bishop of Lexington Insists the Dominican Rite Never Existed (!)
      • “Sample Pages” • Campion Missal (2022 edition)
    • ► January (19)
      • “Boston Globe” features Richard J. Clark
      • 100% Scrolling Score • “What Exactly Is Vespers?”
      • “Tonus Solemnior” • How old is it?
      • “Hymns for Small Choirs” • The Season of Epiphany
      • The Communion of the Second Sunday after Epiphany
      • OCP: “Missa Back-To-The-Future” (Not Kidding)
      • Free Videos • “How to say the Extraordinary Form”
      • PDF Download • “Glory To God” (Three Voices)
      • “Soloists Vs. Full Choir” • Which Do You Prefer?
      • Small Choir Repertoire: “Of The Father’s Love Begotten” (Two Voices)
      • Introductory Latin Courses • Veterum Sapientia Institute
      • Re: Glaring Lectionary Omission • “Setting The Record Straight”
      • 6 January 2022 • Quick!
      • PDF Download • “Feast of the Holy Name” (Vespers Organ Accompaniment)
      • “A Plea to the Bishops” • By Monsignor Charles Pope
      • PDF Booklet • “Blessing Epiphany Water” (18 Pages)
      • Confusing Feasts of Christmas
      • The Responsa ad dubia and the Solesmes Chant Restoration
      • 1 January 2022 • Alternate Melodies
  • ► 2021 (302)
    • ► December (14)
      • Latin Mass • Conspicuous Snag in “Clarification”
      • My submission to the Synod 2023
      • “Merry Christmas!” • From Our Family To Yours
      • “Benedictus” (Missa Iste Sanctus) • All voices recorded by Corrinne May
      • At Least This Is Clear!
      • “Communion Service” for the Extraordinary Form?
      • Archbishop Roche: What the Ordinary Form “has to learn” from the Extraordinary Form
      • Announcement of Easter & the Movable Feasts • 2022 • English & Spanish
      • PDF Download • Carol based on “The First Nowell”
      • “Christmas” … or … “Xmas” ?
      • PDF Download • Vespers Organ Accompaniment — “Our Lady of Guadalupe” (12 December)
      • Archbishop Lefebvre Pushed For Vernacular Readings?
      • Book Review! • “Society for Catholic Liturgy”
      • Biography • Matthew D. Frederes
    • ► November (15)
      • Fauré Requiem Mass • Saint Paul's Choir School 
      • PDF Booklet • First Sunday of Advent Vespers (Organ Accompaniment) — Draft Copy
      • “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” • Original Setting in Latin for Two Voices
      • PDF Download • “Two Easy Advent Hymns”
      • Boston Cathedral Singers' "From the Bell Tower" on "Sounds from the Spires"
      • 16 November 2021 • So Valuable!
      • Fabulous Repertoire For Tiny Choirs!
      • “For The Souls In Purgatory” • A Catholic Hymn
      • 11 November 2021 • “Iste Confessor” Hymn
      • Cardinal Cupich Responds To Our Article!
      • Missa “My Little Pony” by Dan Schutte • Its Pedigree
      • From the Bell Tower - Boston Cathedral Singers Release First Album
      • PDF Download • “Four Easy Pieces” (Smaller Choirs)
      • Cardinal Cupich Publicly Demands Greater Use Of Latin & Gregorian Chant At Chicago Masses
      • A Deaf Composer? A Deaf Conductor?
    • ► October (19)
      • “Hymnals Compared” • with PDF files!
      • Not A Parody! • “The Global Warming Hymn” (2021)
      • “Breathtaking Beauty” • Hymn for Christ the King
      • Incorrect Statement (July 2021) by Pope Francis
      • “Mom, Does This Mean We Can’t Go To Our Mass Anymore?”
      • PDF Download • Commemorating Dr. Fayrfax
      • 22 October 2021 • “Sad & Unnecessary”
      • PDF Download • “Wedding Booklet” (22 pages)
      • Biography • Mr. Patrick Williams
      • PDF Download • “Did Vatican II Reform The Mass?”
      • Huge Announcement! • “Three Voiced Polyphony”
      • Seriously?? • An Anglican “Halloween Hymn”
      • Seven Solutions • “Getting Catholics Singing Again”
      • 11 October 2021 • “Sing All Verses?”
      • A Puzzling Assertion by Bishop Arthur Roche (Congregation for Divine Worship)
      • Two Hymns Loved By Everyone … Except Purists!
      • What Can Be Done With Only Two Cantors?
      • Brave Schola Director Posts Live Recording
      • Where do Catholics find hymns?
    • ► September (25)
      • 28 September 2021 • FEEDBACK
      • PDF Download • “Can A Hymnal Be Too Catholic?”
      • “Catholic Sensibility” • What Makes A Hymnal Catholic?
      • Gregorian Chant • Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel
      • New CD release from the FSSP in Europe!
      • “Salve Regina” • Organ Accompaniment
      • “Easy Polyphonic Agnus Dei” • Part 3 of 3
      • “A Tale Of Two Missals”
      • 23 September 2021 • FEEDBACK
      • Church “Narthex” • What's that?
      • “A Truly Eucharistic Hymn” • Christ the King (SATB)
      • Clarion Call To All Choirmasters! • (26 Sept.)
      • “Homily for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • 16 September 2021 • Fulton J. Sheen
      • 15 September 2021 • Offertory Problem
      • PDF Download • Three Myths About Hymns
      • Reflections On A Prophetic Document
      • [re-post] • “Hymn for the Feast of All Saints”
      • PDF Download • “Old Catholic Missal” (1909) … for the Schismatic “See of Utrecht”
      • A Truly Insane Liturgical Practice
      • “Hand-Communion?” • Provocative Quotes
      • [re-post] • “Famous Italian Actor Regrets Aborting Son”
      • A Call to Publishers and Editors of Roman Catholic Hymnals
      • Breaking! • Joint Statement by Superiors General of “Ecclesia Dei” Communities
      • PDF Download • Bishop Donohoe: “I wish you to definitely confront the priest…”
    • ► August (28)
      • 31 August 2021 • Unexpected Facts
      • “Jaw-Dropping Video” • Never expected to see this!
      • Breaking! • Cardinal Cupich Bans “Hail, Mary” Prayer
      • 27 August 2021 • “DO” a deer?
      • PDF Download • “Pater Noster” by Van Nuffel (1937)
      • Lace for an Altar Boy’s Surplice? — Yes? No?
      • Hidden Gem: Salve Regina (Barkoskie)
      • Church Musicians: The Revolution Starts Today!
      • 21 August 2021 • “Roman Numerals”
      • “Homily: 13th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • + Archbishop from Australia
      • A Teaching Moment • Including “Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above”
      • +Di Noia Publicly Denigrates TLM
      • Exciting New Documentary : Mass of the Ages - Tonight!
      • PDF Download • “Vespers Booklet” (15 August, Assumption) — 20 pages
      • PDF Download • “Ave Maris Stella” (Organ Accompaniment)
      • “Part 3 of 3” • Guerrero Kyrie for Our Lady
      • PDF Download • Hymn for the Assumption • (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)
      • “Feast of All Saints” • Do You Know This Hymn?
      • PDF Download • “A Very Sloppy Accompaniment”
      • 8 August 2021 • “More on the Moræ”
      • Hymn For The Transfiguration (6 August) • “Recorded During Choir Rehearsal”
      • PDF Download • Alleluia (SATB) by Morales for “Ordinary Form” + “Extraordinary Form”
      • “Talking To Dead Composers” • Part 2
      • It Finally Happened.
      • “What is Vespers?” • Live Rec. + 100% Scrolling Score
      • Michael Olbash on Sounds from the Spires
      • “Homily: 10th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
    • ► July (28)
      • (29 Pages) • Free Organ Accompaniment Book — Draft copy
      • PDF Download • Vespers Booklet for This Sunday (draft)
      • SATB Hymns • “Consors Paterni Luminis” (Translated to English)
      • Father Adrian Fortescue on the “Agnus Dei”
      • “Shocking!” • What Vatican II said about Latin
      • List • Responses by each bishop!
      • Tomorrow is Sunday…
      • 24 July 2021 • “Two Teams”
      • The Ordination and the Motu Proprio
      • Copyright Problems! • Vernacular Readings + “Traditionis Custodes”
      • Top 3 Heart-warming Articles about the Latin Mass
      • Traditionis Custodes • An “Attack” On The Traditional Latin Mass?
      • “Traditionis Custodes” • Five (5) Brief Reflections
      • 7 Keys to Success with Graduale Renovatum
      • PDF Download • The “1965 Missal” (1,785 pages)
      • Restricting the Extraordinary Form? • Cardinal Ratzinger's Video Interview
      • Important Reminder from Pope Saint John XXIII
      • “Let Us Take Courage!” • In Spite of Today’s News
      • Hymn Lyrics Which Don't Fit
      • 12 July 2021 • FEEDBACK
      • Four Eucharistic Motets for the Year of the Eucharist
      • PT Barnum, Henri Herz, + 1,000 candles
      • 7 July 2021 • “Getting Soft at the End”
      • [Live Rec.] • “Do You Know This Eucharistic Hymn?”
      • We Urgently Require Funds! • Can You Give $5.00 Per Month?
      • PDF Download • “Polyphonic Creed Extension” (Perfect Canon Between Soprano & Alto)
      • A “Must Read” for Choir School Enthusiasts
      • Free Online Movie! • “Scarlet and the Black” (1983)
    • ► June (27)
      • 30 June 2021 • “External Solemnities”
      • “Talk Is Cheap” • Advice For Music Directors
      • 28 June 2021 • (Live Rec.) Perfect Canon
      • 28 June 2021 • “Progress is what counts…”
      • Organ Improvisation: To Record, or Not to Record?
      • 26 June 2021 • “Twenty Seconds”
      • PDF Download • Pentecost Sequence In English! — Gregorian Notation w/ Organ Accompaniment
      • PDF Download • Colossally Stupendous “Missal for the Faithful” — 1,142 pages
      • Hidden Gem: Tantum Ergo II (Kwasniewski)
      • Hymn Translations That Don't Rhyme?
      • Attack on “Female Organists” • (Not Kidding)
      • “Te Deum Laudamus” • Booklet fits on a single page!
      • Hymn • “Christ is King” (Father Ivor Daniel) + Rehearsal Videos!
      • 14 June 2021 • “From Rehearsal…”
      • 1975 • Jerry Brown Vs. William F. Buckley: “Was Thomas Aquinas Liberal or Conservative?”
      • “Easy Polyphonic Agnus Dei” • Part 1 of 3
      • YouTube • “Latin Mass in Scotland”
      • What A Real Catholic Conductor Looks Like
      • Jordan B. Peterson • “My Biggest Regret In Life”
      • Twelve (12) Tips • “Keeping Choir Members Happy”
      • “Part 2 of 3” • Guerrero Kyrie for Our Lady
      • PDF Drafts • Ten (10) Gregorian Chant Litanies
      • They Did Something Bad & Inexplicable • (Documentation Included)
      • 3 June 2021 • Re: “Mass of the Angels”
      • PDF Download • For the Sacred Heart (3 voices)
      • PDF Download • Organ Accompaniments for “Lauda Sion Salvatorem” (Sequence)
      • 1 June 2021 • Unsure of Author
    • ► May (30)
      • Charles Tournemire: An Organist's Best Friend
      • News From Belgium • Re: Choral “Our Father”
      • (Holy Trinity Sunday) • An Astonishing Hymn!
      • PDF Download • “Credo VII Polyphonic Extension” for a Girls' Choir
      • What A Roman Catholic Hymnal Looks Like!
      • A Summer Course in Old Notation
      • “Veni Creator Spiritus” + Organ Accompaniment • with English Translation by Fr. Fortescue
      • 24 May 2021 • FEEDBACK
      • “Part 1 of 3” • Guerrero Kyrie for Our Lady
      • “Veni Sancte Spiritus” (Sequence) • 18 Accompaniments
      • 21 May 2021 • “Cheating?”
      • 18 May 2021 • A bad translation?
      • On Musicianship: A Thought Experiment for Choir Directors
      • “Slanty Wampus” Doesn't Count
      • “Homily: Sunday after the Ascension” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • “Easy Polyphonic Agnus Dei” • Part 2 of 3
      • Podcast: James Kennerley: Sacred Music in Education, the Church and the World
      • The Ascension Depicted in the Rabbula Gospel Book
      • Being Too Hard On Priests?
      • Updated Litany of St Joseph with Chant
      • Did Bishop Sheen Favor A Particular Hymnal?
      • Re: “Christ the King Hymnal” (Imprimatur, 1954)
      • Virtual Sacred Music Colloquium 2021
      • 6 May 2021 • FEEDBACK
      • Question & Answer Box • “Which Tune Is This?”
      • (Live Recording) • “Jesus My Lord, My God, My All”
      • "Are You God?" On the Impact We Have as Church Musicians
      • “No hymn deserves more to be reintroduced in our catholic tradition.” —Dom Ermin Vitry
      • Summer Course in the Ward Method
      • Calling All Church Musicians!
    • ► April (25)
      • Spanish Australian Setting of Salve Joseph
      • “Days Of The Week In Latin” • Feria II, Feria III, Feria IV, Feria V, Feria VI
      • “Are They Ugly?” • May 1st Propers For Saint Joseph
      • Hidden Gem: In Te, Domine, Speravi (Hassler)
      • Paul Inwood Attacks Jeff Ostrowski's Harmonies
      • The Greater Litanies & the Meaning of Liturgical Processions
      • An Interview with Veronica Brandt
      • 22 April 2021 • SATB Plainsong?
      • 22 April 2021 • ICTUS ALERT
      • “The Fifteen Best Catholic Hymns” • Wait……
      • Do You Know This Easter Hymn?
      • Why does this repeat four times?
      • Not. Just. Catholics.
      • Did Solesmes Abbey Drink The 1960s Kool-Aid?
      • Fr. Thomas Reese • “Young People Should Not Be Allowed To Attend” Latin Mass
      • 10 Examples • “Diversity of Musical Styles” at the Traditional Latin Mass
      • Can You Spare 33 Seconds?
      • “The Great Reset” • For Your Choir?
      • “Adze” • Do you know this word?
      • PDF Download • Vespers for Holy Thursday?
      • PDF Download • “Sanctus for Three Voices” (Soprano, Alto, and Bass)
      • Live Recording • “Jesus My Lord, My God, My All”
      • 5 April 2021 • When Girls Sing
      • (Hymn) • “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today”
      • Thomas à Kempis says …
    • ► March (33)
      • New Website! • “Restore The 1954 Holy Week”
      • A Short Reflection for Holy Week: On Love
      • PDF Download • “Hymn to Christ the King” (SATB)
      • 29 March 2021 • FEEDBACK
      • 29 March 2021 • Condemned?
      • Vesting Prayers • Part 9 of 9
      • Never Released Before! • Unique Version of “O Sacred Head Surrounded” (SATB)
      • Liturgical Translation: Your Thoughts?
      • Hidden Gem: Crux Fidelis (attr. King John IV of Portugal)
      • Church Music's Best Kept Secret!
      • “Glad Trad” vs. “Rad Trad”
      • Saint Joseph + Baby Jesus In A Walker
      • 18 March 2021 • “Close To Death”
      • Homeschooling & Consecration To Saint Joseph
      • PDF Download • My Favorite Gregorian Hymn
      • Three Radical Liturgical Changes • (Pope Pius XII)
      • Spring Lecture Series • Society for Catholic Liturgy
      • Singers • High or Low?
      • 15 March 2021 • Lætare Compliment!
      • PDF Download • “O Sacred Head Surrounded” — Twelve Organ Accompaniments
      • Holy Week Chants • Clergy Training
      • 11 March 2021 • From Last Sunday…
      • Re: Music For Two Voices • “Jam Christe Sol Justitiæ”
      • “Extra” Offertory & Communion Verses in the Saint Edmund Campion Missal (3rd Edition)
      • PDF Download • EF “Singing Cues” (1-Page Sheet)
      • The Anatomy of an Organ Improvisation
      • A Beautiful Lenten Hymn • “How It Sounds”
      • Two Recent Talks on the Liturgy
      • 4 March 2021 • Can you spare 15 seconds?
      • Now Online! • “Missale Romanum” (1615 edition)
      • “Ash Wednesday” • Banned by YouTube after 93,000 Views!
      • 3 March 2021 • “A policeman” — really?
      • Three Ways to Improvise at the Organ
    • ► February (30)
      • (Screenshots) • Proving Holy Saturday Took Place In The Morning
      • “Homily: Second Sunday of Lent” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Part 2 • “Starting Your Own Traditional Latin Mass”
      • Is This Really The Same Church??
      • Solmization from the Inside
      • “Old Solesmes” Method • What's That?
      • Four Reasons to Improvise at the Organ
      • The Liturgical Request: “Iube, Domne, Benedicere”
      • CDW Guidance for Holy Week 2021
      • PDF Download • “O Sacred Head Surrounded” … placed into Gregorian Chant!
      • PDF Download • “Daily Missal with Vespers for Sundays” by Dom Lefevbre (2,007 pages)
      • (photographs) • The Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal
      • PDF • “Spiritual Mass Plan for Church Organists”
      • Surprising Popularity!
      • 15 February 2021 • To Capitalize…?
      • Part 1 • “Starting Your Own Traditional Latin Mass”
      • 15 February 2021 • “Sung vs. Spoken”
      • New Monthly Companion for the Extraordinary Form
      • PDF: “The Attack On The Vatican Edition: A Rejoinder”
      • “Homily for Quinquagesima Sunday” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • "Ad Orientem" Explained
      • PDF Download • 1954 “Bragers Hymnal”—Accompaniment Edition (131 pages)
      • “Reform of the Reform” • Eight Lies We Were Told
      • 10 February 2021 • “Follow the text…”
      • Musical Notation for New EF Prefaces
      • “Homily for Sexagesima Sunday” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • 5 February 2021 • “Tainted”
      • Ben Shapiro Teaches His Audience Music Theory!
      • 3 February 2021 • “Politics”
      • Looking for a Good Lenten Devotion? Try the Seven Sorrows Rosary
    • ► January (28)
      • “Homily for Septuagesima Sunday” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • A Lesson in Chant from the Late Fr. Foster
      • Music Conference at the Vatican
      • Alleluia, Dulce Carmen - sing it while you can!
      • Quick Vocal Tip: Breathe on Cutoffs
      • Making Sacraments Available amidst Adversity
      • Glaring Omission from Post-Vatican II Lectionary
      • 20 January 2021 • REMINDER
      • (Ladies Singing Low) • “Adding Fifths Above”
      • 19 January 2021 • Confusion over feasts
      • PDF Download • “Mass Propers For Sundays And Holydays Set To Simple Melodies” (429 pages)
      • Hidden Gem: Salvum Fac Populum Tuum (Bruckner)
      • Landmark Documentary on the Renewal of Sacred Music
      • Thou Hast Saved the Good Wine until Now
      • “Homily for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Lies, Lies, Lies
      • What Color Is B-Flat? Life as a Musician with Synesthesia
      • Catholic Choirmasters • Never Fall For This!
      • 6 January 2021 • Anglicans on Plainsong
      • PDF Download • “Essential Liturgical Chart”
      • PDF Download • “Blessing of Epiphany Water”
      • Here's a New Year's Resolution: Tell Strangers What You Do
      • Practical Reflections on the Restored Order
      • PDF Download • “Puer Natus In Bethlehem” — Simple Christmas Hymn (2 Pages)
      • 2 January 2021 • Temptation
      • PDF Download • “No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or fasting day.”
      • “Homily — Feast of Mary, the Mother of God, Years ABC” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • 31 December 2020 • “COMITES CHRISTI”
  • ► 2020 (473)
    • ► December (29)
      • Hymns for the Holy Name of Jesus
      • Start the New Year Right with a Spectacular Alleluia
      • “Homily — Feast of the Holy Family, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Chasing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
      • PDF Download • “Midnight Mass Musical Plan” (2020)
      • 23 December 2020 • A 5th? or 4th?
      • PDF Download • “Creator Alme Siderum” with Organ Accompaniment
      • “Improving As Musicians” • Eight Suggestions
      • Hidden Gem: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Salazar)
      • What's With All the Chant?
      • Announcement of Easter & the Movable Feasts • 2021 • English & Spanish
      • (Installment #15) “Catholic Hymnals” • William Fritz
      • The First Time We've Ever Done This Correctly!
      • “Blessing the Bell” • Most Rev’d Alejandro D. Aclan
      • Saint Paul’s Choir School Presents “Starry Night: Christmas in Harvard Square”
      • How to Help Children Match Pitch (part III)
      • “Rorate Mass” (FSSP) • 12 December 2020
      • “Homily — 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Safety in Music is a Pro-Life Issue
      • “Martinelli's Letter” (dated 18 February 1910)
      • Offertory Compared • “Ave Maria” (4th Sunday of Advent) vs. “Ave Maria” (Immaculate Conception)
      • 9 December 2020 • A Cool Tradition
      • Gregorian Chant • “How To Sing The Repercussion” (such as: Bistropha, Tristropha, etc.)
      • How to Help Children Match Pitch (part II)
      • The Prophet Baruch: Surge, Ierusalem, Look to the East!
      • “Homily — 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Book Title • “English As She Is Spoke”
      • (Ecuador) • Archbishop Poisoned on Good Friday
      • Latin Mass Gospel Reading Video: Boost your Sunday
    • ► November (35)
      • How to Help Children Match Pitch (part I)
      • 30 November 2020 • “Case in point”
      • The “Winking” Part • Where'd Father Lasance Get It?
      • A Whale of a Pulpit
      • Extremely Rare! • Pages from the “Directorium Chori” (Solesmes Abbey, 1864)
      • 27 November 2020 • ACCENTS
      • Feast of the Holy Family • Where did it come from?
      • “Homily — 1st Sunday of Advent, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Inspiration for Organ Improvisation
      • St. Matthew, St. Jane, and the End of a Liturgical Year
      • Resurgam and the Month of All Souls
      • 20 November 2020 • Epiphany Sequence?
      • PDF Download • Several Useful Plainsong Books
      • 18 November 2020 • FEEDBACK
      • (Installment #14) “Catholic Hymnals” • Andrea Leal
      • On the Dedication of Churches
      • “Alma Redemptoris Mater” • Thirteen (13) Organ Accompaniments
      • 16 November 2020 • Exciting addition!
      • Let’s Bring Back the Thank-You Note
      • Wilbur Wright and the McCarrick Report
      • Should Hymn Lyrics Be Inordinately Archaic?
      • “Homily — 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • (Installment #13) “Catholic Hymnals” • Lucas Tappan
      • Solemn Mass • Ruins of Saint Mary’s Cathedral (Nagasaki, 1949)
      • Veterans Day: Remembering Those Who Made Our Music Possible
      • Catholic Artists and “Self Hatred”
      • (Installment #12) “Catholic Hymnals” • Veronica Moreno
      • 6 November 2020 • FEEDBACK
      • Msgr. Schmitt backs up Rev. Fortescue
      • “Polyphonic Credo” during Communion?
      • “Christ as Creator” • Remarkable Findings in Ancient Hymns !
      • The Best We've Done?
      • (Installment #11) “Catholic Hymnals” • Alfred Calabrese
      • Place Me Among the Sheep, Not the Goats
      • “Homily — 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
    • ► October (38)
      • PDF Download • Vespers for the Dead
      • PDF Download • Rare 1970 Document Explains “Spoken vs. Sung Propers”
      • Geeky Virtual Pipe Organ Options
      • “Homily for the Feast of All Saints” (November 1st) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • * Live Rec. • “Absolution of the Body” (Gregorian Chant)
      • PDF Download • Beautiful Requiem Mass Image
      • “New” Cracked Altar Defaces Baroque Church
      • ICEL added “Died” to the Nicene Creed • (I am not kidding!)
      • Quick Vocal Tip: The Yawn Breath
      • “Homily for the Feast of Christ the King” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • PDF Download • Extremely Simple (Yet Gorgeous) Polyphonic Funeral Mass
      • PDF Download • “Mass Propers for Weekdays, Commons, and Saints” (1,294 pages)
      • Heresy du Jour? • (Orig. Published in 2019)
      • 20 October 2020 • “What we can't share”
      • Helping “Tone-Deaf” Men Match Pitch
      • 19 October 2020 • Feast of Father Brébeuf
      • Dom Pothier • “To The Eyes And To The Ears”
      • Indispensable & Accessible: Fr. Samuel F. Weber Propers in English
      • The “Mora Vocis” • What is that?
      • 13 October 2020 • Chopin talks Bach
      • PDF Download • “Taste and see the goodness of the Lord” (Responsorial Psalm)
      • 12 October 2020 • True Story
      • How to Stay Prayerful as a Church Musician
      • “Homily for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Catholic Architecture • “Modern vs. Ancient”
      • Sacred Music Boot Camp 2020
      • “Arranging Polyphony for One Voice” • (Live Rec.)
      • Photo • Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
      • PDF Download • Communion Antiphon (Mt 16:24) with Organ Accompaniment
      • (Installment #10) “Catholic Hymnals” • Chris Mueller
      • “Homily for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • The Real Reason Why Some People Don't Match Pitch
      • “O Sacrum Convivium” • Recorded by one person
      • Here's How the Mass Will Change
      • 3 October 2020 • What Kids Lack
      • “Spoken vs. Sung Propers” • The Complete History
      • Famous Italian Actor Regrets Aborting Son
      • Devotional Music for the Feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
    • ► September (41)
      • “Homily for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • PDF Download • Extremely Rare! — 1966 “Book of Catholic Worship” (809 pages)
      • Outdoor Music Classes? Only in 2020!
      • CDW: “Let us return to the Eucharist with joy!”
      • Communication • Re: Modern Catholic Hymns
      • Lecture: What Happens to Us in Liturgy?
      • PDF Download • Extremely Rare Sequence (Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi)
      • EWTN Features Catholic Choirmaster & Composer
      • 22 September 2020 • “Tears of Joy”
      • “Homily for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Myth Re: Johann Sebastian Bach
      • Homily • “25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A”
      • The Tiniest Prayer Books: the Key of Heaven
      • Arthur Friedheim, Franz Liszt's Secretary
      • (Installment #9) “Catholic Hymnals” • Corrinne May
      • Solesmes Publishes “Antiphonale Romanum I” for Lauds
      • More on the Mystery Book
      • (Installment #8) “Catholic Hymnals” • Cynthia Ostrowski
      • Homily — “Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Mother” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Graduale Renovatum: New Resource Brings Chant Rhythm to Life
      • 13th Anniversary of “Summorum Pontificum”
      • PDF Download • “Order of the Mass without a Congregation” (1970)
      • “A blast from the past”
      • PDF Download • 1928 “Invitatory” (86 pages)
      • (Installment #7) “Catholic Hymnals” • Richard J. Clark
      • “Homily — 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Jeff Ostrowski • “Three Rules For Good Music”
      • Introvert, Except at Rehearsal? You May Be an Ambivert
      • Music as a Technology of the Soul
      • Important Message To Fathers
      • (Installment #6) “Catholic Hymnals” • Jeff Ostrowski
      • “Homily for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Sir Richard Terry: Hymns, Congregational Singing, and Avoiding “Violence” to the Elders
      • 3 September 2020 • Tausig, Liszt's student
      • (Installment #5) “Catholic Hymnals” • Dr. Gregory Hamilton
      • “That Image” from World War II • Further Questions
      • WW2 post at 3:30am = 10k views?
      • (Installment #4) “Catholic Hymnals” • Charles Weaver
      • Holy Mass During World War II • (9 April 1944)
      • PDF Download • “Communion Antiphon” (with organ accompaniment)
      • “Homily — 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
    • ► August (41)
      • (Installment #3) “Catholic Hymnals” • Keven Smith
      • Bishop Sheen on Sanctifying the Moment
      • “Resplendent Beyond Reckoning” • Sherborne Missal (1399AD)
      • (Installment #2) “Catholic Hymnals” • Veronica Brandt
      • Video Excerpt • “Fastest Organ Pedals I've Ever Seen!”
      • Josef Hofmann • “Pianist Par Excellence”
      • 25 August 2020 • A 20-minute Mass?
      • (Installment #1) “Catholic Hymnals” • Patrick Torsell
      • “Homily — 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Quick Vocal Tip: Be Breathy, but Briefly
      • Huge Discovery! (Not a Joke) • Re: “Gradual Antiphons vs. Missal Antiphons”
      • Homeschool Snapshots: Take 2
      • “Secret Book of Happiness” • Official English Translations of the Roman Gradual
      • Biography • Charles Weaver
      • Clarity! • Missal vs. Gradual Text (Ordinary Form)
      • JP2 said in June of 1980…
      • 18 August 2020 • Fr. Fortescue wins!
      • “Homily for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • Stress Relief Tip: Let Your Structure Do the Work
      • Certificate in Sacred Music
      • 3 September 1958 • “De musica sacra”
      • 3 September 1958 • Issued by Pius XII
      • “Homily — 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
      • 13 August 2020 • “Lenten acclamations”
      • “Crown Him with Many Crowns” (Diademata) • Brébeuf Hymnal #752
      • These kids are on fire! • “Victimæ Paschali Laudes” by Philippe Verdelot
      • “Plainchant in Two Parts” • (Guest Article by a Julliard Faculty Member)
      • Why Are You a Church Musician, Anyway?
      • 10 August 2020 • FEEDBACK
      • Missale Meum: Get EF Mass Texts on Your Devices
      • PDF Download • “Veni Creator Spiritus” Organ Accompaniment (Each Verse Notated)
      • PDF Download (2,092 pages) • “Liturgical Notes on the Roman Missal” by Archbishop Schuster
      • Year of the Eucharist • Solemn Vespers with Exposition and Benediction
      • Vexing? Irksome? • Thoughts On Hymnal Indexes
      • Allowed or Forbidden? • Parallel Fourths in Renaissance Polyphony
      • That Little Tabernacle Light
      • “Serviam Scores” • Mr. Richardson has a beautiful voice!
      • 4 August 2020 • FEEDBACK
      • Survey Results: Music at the TLM Doesn’t Matter?
      • “Gonfalon Royal” • One Of My Favorite Hymn Tunes
      • 1 August 2020 • FEEDBACK
    • ► July (31)
      • “Stella Caeli Exstirpavit” • Gregorian Chant During Times Of Pestilence
      • 8,000 entries • “Snippets Index” for New Hymnal
      • Goal Met • Why We're Grateful To Our Readers
      • Ubi Caritas Goes Viral: My Thoughts
      • PDF Download • “Holy Week and Easter with Gregorian Chant” (797 pages)
      • 22 July 2020 • Five Recent Messages
      • 21 July 2020 • From a Musicology PhD…
      • “Pope Pius XII Psalter” • How different was it?
      • Biography • Dr. Gregory Hamilton
      • The Gifts of Abel the Just
      • PDF Download • “Label Your Luggage”
      • PDF Download • “Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Mass”
      • Wonderful emails received recently…
      • Obsequies for Msgr. Georg Ratzinger (1924-2020)
      • Two Fast, Easy Ways for Church Musicians to Relieve Stress
      • 1,055 Images • “Paramentica Liturgical Design”
      • Honesty and Integrity
      • Two Settings • “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name”
      • The Illusion of Permanence — an Exercise in Humility
      • Featured • “To All Who Care About CCWatershed”
      • Solemn Novena for Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
      • Can These Youngsters Save Catholic Music?
      • “Just how Tridentine are you?” • Quiz by GIA Publications
      • Unslumping Yourself with the King of Instruments
      • Two remarkable (radical) liturgical realities … which few realize!
      • Biography • Corrinne May
      • Saint Eulalia Gradual • Guest Article by Josh Carey
      • EF Gospel Illustrations
      • Sing Praises with Understanding: A Scriptural Approach to Musical Participation
      • “Choral Singing post-COVID” • Perspectives from a Hong Kong Doctor & Chorister
      • Monsignor Georg Ratzinger Has Died
    • ► June (41)
      • Draft Document • “Church Music Manifesto” (2020)
      • Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part IV of IV)
      • Chanting and Spiritual Health
      • Sonata during the Gradual?
      • Homeschool Snapshots: Take 1
      • New Catholic Hymns: 24 Hymns for the Liturgical Year
      • Sister Goodchild • “Gregorian Chant for Church and School”
      • Best Practices with Current Restrictions • New Resource from Detroit
      • Note from a reader (25 June 2020)
      • Six Points • The Church and Patronage of the Arts
      • PDF Download • “Saint Edmund Jennings Mass”
      • More on the subject of “Mutual Enrichment”
      • Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part III)
      • Coloring Calendars - Liturgical Art
      • Important • Watershed Will Never Be The Same!
      • Silence and The Thoughts of His Heart
      • “Society of Saint Bede” • Free Liturgical Resources
      • Devotional Catholicism and the Domestic Church
      • PDF Download • “Saint Anne Line Mass”
      • How Good Are Your Musical Ears? • (Speedy Test)
      • Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part II)
      • Liturgical Handwashing
      • Live Recording (42 min) • “Vespers for the Sacred Heart”
      • O Sacred Heart, On Earth Thou Art An Exile’s Rest
      • Recorded Music At Mass?
      • Virtual Sacred Music Colloquium 2020
      • PDF Download • “Saint Ralph Sherwin Mass”
      • Organ Accompaniment • “Pater Noster” (in Latin)
      • Positive Message from a Catholic Priest
      • Why We Sing the Liturgy
      • Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part 1)
      • A Verse for Trinity Sunday
      • “Comparison” • 15 Traditional Catholic Hymnals
      • Brébeuf Virtual Choir Strikes Again!
      • Pentecost Melody Added
      • PDF Download • 17 Organ Accompaniments for the simple “Salve Regina”
      • Liturgical Challenges Presented by COVID-19 • A Triptych via Zoom
      • The Art of Improvisation
      • How to Get Better at Chant Without Opening Your Mouth
      • This World Does Not Always Reward Virtue
      • Troubleshooting Gregorian Chant
    • ► May (45)
      • Singing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
      • Covid-19 • “A Word Of Encouragement”
      • Broadcasting Holy Mass During Covidtide
      • Arranging and Transcribing Our Way Through the Epidemic
      • Returning to the Sacraments • Stories from Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
      • The Fastest, Cheapest, Painfulest Way to Get a Voice Lesson
      • “Discussion” • Father Guerrero’s 7th Mode Magnificat
      • Are the Solesmes editions in conformity with the official edition?
      • It's not too late to "Crown Mary"
      • Huge Announcement • The Brébeuf Virtual Choir!
      • From a Catholic priest…
      • Reopening our Churches – Encouragement – Resources
      • “Jesu Nostra Redemptio” • Ancient Hymn for the Ascension translated into English!
      • Of Shepherds and Sheep
      • New Harmonies! • “To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King”
      • What to Do When Music Creeps Into Your Prayer
      • Returning to the Sacraments • “Breathe Easter Now” (Hopkins)
      • PDF Download • Organ Accompaniments (Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament)
      • Regina Caeli: How Good do you Need to Be to Sing Polyphony?
      • How to Change a Hymn Without Changing It
      • Post-Pandemic Liturgy
      • Can't Decide Which Hymn Tune To Use?
      • Josquin’s “Ave Maria...Virgo Serena” • The Most Famous Piece Of 1502
      • What Did Palestrina Look Like?
      • Does Gregorian Chant ever skip a 7th?
      • We love getting messages like this one…
      • How Do the Greats Approach the Science of Choral Conducting?
      • How to properly sing “Alleluia” in Eastertide (1962 Missal)
      • Choir Roster? No. It's a Love List!
      • A B C D F etc. — An Ancient “Alphabetical” Hymn
      • Is Liturgy Essential?
      • Wedding Homily (7 min) by Fr. Valentine Young
      • Pain, Trauma, Caution in the Choir World
      • Stunning Harmonies! • “Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above” (Hymn #783)
      • What is the “Ordinary” of the Mass?
      • Blog Contributors Speak About A “Favorite” Piece
      • What Makes a Great Conductor?
      • “Pange Lingua” translated into English • Hymn by Saint Thomas Aquinas
      • Bring Your “Lost Motets” to Life
      • Throwing Away Our Birthright of Beauty
      • Unveiling the songs of hope: fr Timothy Radcliffe op
      • Saints Stories from 3 Priests in Australia
      • The best 5 seconds in Gregorian Chant…
      • Being Too Hard On Priests?
      • Biography • Daniel Tucker
    • ► April (46)
      • Can Sacred Music Be Saved? • (How exactly?)
      • Audiation for Choristers
      • For Shame! • Collegeville blog says looking at Crucifix “skirts the edge of idolatry”
      • What Spilling My Coffee Taught Me About Directing My Choir
      • “Virtual Mass Is Not The Same” • Sermon by Father Mark Ostrowski
      • Trust the Good Shepherd
      • "Ransomed" during a pandemic
      • Compline in the Home - via Podcasts!
      • If you are having a bad day, this is what it means
      • “Hearing the Music of Heaven” • An interview with Father Dominic White OP
      • Can Ordinary Form Masses Be “Enriched” By The Extraordinary Form?
      • Dealing With Calumny
      • Easter Chants from Fisher House
      • “Christ The Lord Is Risen Today” • (Hymn #697)
      • The Unintended Consequences of Live Streaming Mass
      • Rehearsal • “Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest”
      • From “Vexilla Christus Inclyta”
      • As Seen On Facebook…
      • The Offertory Antiphons of the Easter Octave
      • Why are you sad, O my soul?
      • Maintaining Easter Joy in a Pandemic
      • A Blessing and a Curse: Digital Sheet Music
      • Yikes! • More Plagiarism from Boise’s Bishop
      • Biography • Keven Smith
      • Repeating Repertoire? • William Fritz
      • The Overtone Series (Truly) Explained
      • PDF Download • “Victimae Paschali” Organ Accompaniment (Nine Versions)
      • Without Sacraments • How Saint Isaac Jogues Survived
      • Do Not Let Your Voice be Silenced
      • Brébeuf Hymn #554 • “Victis Sibi” in English
      • God will not be outdone in generosity.
      • One more regrettable mistake by the Bishop of Boise, Idaho
      • PDF Download • Haunting “Alleluia” for Ordinary and/or Extraordinary Form
      • (2022, Revised) • Saint Vitus Choir Page
      • Banning “Ad Orientem” • Six Regrettable Mistakes by the Bishop of Boise, Idaho
      • CCW President on “Real Presence Radio”
      • “Daily I sat in the temple, close to you…”
      • This Holy Week Visit Sydney
      • PDF Download • “Pre-1955 Holy Saturday” (Draft)
      • Craving the Body of Christ
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Andrea Leal
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Father Friel
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Patrick Torsell
      • What a young Father Morales wrote for Charles V
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Dr. Hamilton
      • Hymn: “All glory, laud, and honor to Thee, Redeemer, King” (Sopr, Alto, Tenr, Bass)
    • ► March (47)
      • Sacred Music Symposium • “What We Avoid”
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Wilfrid Jones
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Veronica Brandt
      • Going Beyond Archbishop Fulton Sheen's “Take”
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Christopher Mueller
      • “Abraham” • Guerrero Imitates His Teacher
      • 8 Tips • “Improving Live Stream Audio Quality”
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Richard J. Clark
      • HYMN • “Vexilla Regis” (SATB setting in English)
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Veronica Moreno
      • “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today” (Brébeuf Hymnal, #699)
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Dr. Tappan
      • Too much music!
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Dr. Calabrese
      • Repeating Repertoire? • Jeff Ostrowski
      • PDF Download • “Ad Regias Agni Dapes” (Organ Accompaniment)
      • Readings & Prayers Used By My Family On Sunday…
      • “Separated from the Sacraments” • Stories from Walter Ciszek, SJ
      • Rehearsal Video • Breathtaking Morales “Sanctus”
      • “Sharing Is Caring”
      • What Frightens Me
      • CDW Guidelines for Holy Week 2020
      • The Fruit of Silence is Prayer
      • Official Statement on Coronavirus
      • A Word of Encouragement
      • Eucharistic Fasting, Hunger, and Pent Up Energy
      • The Ability To Say “I Don't Know”
      • Disturbing Trend
      • PDF Download • The Most Difficult Piece! (Sacred Music Symposium 2020)
      • Video (50 seconds) • “Long Lines At California Costco”
      • PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for “Audi Benigne Conditor” (Vespers Hymn for Lent)
      • Stella Caeli - a hymn against pestilence
      • Errors in the “Complete Works” of Father Cristóbal de Morales
      • Internet Bullies
      • A Hymn We're Singing This Lent—In English!
      • "Let's Not" . . . a small moment of reverence
      • Liturgical Custody of the Eyes
      • Psalms, Psalmody, Psalmists, Psalm Singing
      • Former Executive Director (USCCB Liturgy Committee) Distorts Holy Week Permitted By Pope Francis
      • Father Cristóbal de Morales • “Missa Mille Regretz”
      • Singing in the Papal Choir during the 16th century…
      • Excerpt (November, 1545) for Choir Members at the Vatican
      • PDF Download • Catholic Hymnal by the Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio (84 Pages)
      • The Institution as Formator (Part II)
      • Pope Pius X had been a choirmaster!
      • "It's not just the singing of certain notes"
      • “Stations of the Cross” • By Fulton J. Sheen
    • ► February (37)
      • iPhone Clip • “Sight-Reading Hosanna the First Time”
      • Organ Scholarship at Christendom College
      • PDF Download • “Hymnal of Christian Unity” (1964)
      • Why Should You Come to the Symposium?
      • Vaughan Williams' Sage Advice for Those Appointing Martin Baker's Successor
      • “Notwithstanding all our troubles, we sing Mass” —1601 AD
      • Exploring the 5th/6th-Century Mosaics of Ravenna
      • What Kind of Interest is there in a Gregorian Chant Class?
      • Beyond performing and listening
      • Secret Sympathy
      • Absolutely Sensational Video About The Sacred Music Symposium!
      • Olivier Latry: Recital in Dallas This Sunday
      • Magnificent Photograph! • Fr. Valentine With His Mother
      • Choral Scholarships at Christendom College
      • Imposing the Classical Style on Public Building Projects?
      • New Work from Paul Jernberg
      • Incredible Opportunity In Kansas City
      • « Sundays after Pentecost »
      • Big News! • Symposium Dates Revealed
      • Septuagesima Gradual • Strange Formation on Clivis
      • Youth Choristers - Formation Beyond Singing
      • To Breathe or Not To Breathe
      • Westminster Cathedral Choir School: Update
      • “I’m hanging on every word.”—Catholic Organist Group
      • When Choirs Prefer A “Real Voice” To Midi
      • Short But Superb Film • “Westminster Choir Boys”
      • PDF Download • “What Makes A Good Hymn?”
      • 3rd edition • Saint Edmund Campion Missal
      • The Institution as Formator (Part I)
      • PDF Download • “Ave Maris Stella” (Organ Accompaniment)
      • Could Pope St. Pius X Sing?
      • Julius Bas Accompaniment
      • Hitting wrong notes
      • Silence
      • PDF Booklet • Feast of the Purification (2 February)
      • Another Purification “Mystery”…
      • “Mystery” about the Purification in the Extraordinary Form
    • ► January (42)
      • A Traditional—But Bizarre!—Way To Assist At Mass
      • Two Reasons for Fewer Vocations
      • In Which a Neo-Pagan Converts
      • "Performance" and the Liturgy.
      • Photos! • Brébeuf Choral Supplement Has Arrived
      • Pothier's 1906 “De Caetero” Letter • Two Translations
      • Mass with Masks in Hong Kong
      • Litany of St Joseph
      • Anger at mistakes?
      • Photograph • Fr. Valentine w/ Composer Kevin Allen
      • The Book of Kells Online
      • “The old man carried the Child, but the Child led the old man.”
      • The Organ Postlude: Distraction, or Powerful Aid to Devotion?
      • Liturgy is the work of Christ and His Body, the Church.
      • A quote from Fr. Valentine Young
      • Extremely Rare! • 1908 Solesmes Graduale (PDF Download)
      • “Theoricam practicamque”
      • Here is Where We Go
      • Biography • William J. Fritz
      • This old holy card says it all…
      • PDF Download • “Lucis Creator Optime” (Vespers Hymn)
      • Comparison • “1909 Missal vs. 1999 Missal”
      • Fr. Valentine Young, OFM — R.I.P.
      • Roger Scruton, Magister Pulchritudinis
      • Is It Time To Stop Singing The Propers?
      • Of Weddings, Funerals and other Comedies
      • A quote from Fr. Valentine
      • Circle is complete
      • (2007) Fr. Valentine Young Speaks About Religious Habits In The 1960s
      • Fr. Valentine is very sick
      • Website progress update
      • What Palestrina Did With Kyrie II (“Fons Bonitatis”)
      • Digitizing the Vatican Library
      • Youth Choristers: Get Them While They're Young
      • Biography • Patrick Torsell
      • A very serious issue
      • A Phenomenal Epiphany Hymn!
      • Chocolate as payment?
      • Introduction to the Latin Mass For Kids, By Kids
      • Stepping off the hamster wheel
      • Chant, Mighty Pipe Organs • Two Sundays, Two Cathedrals
      • Watershed in 2020
  • ► 2019 (192)
    • ► December (13)
      • Watershed in 2019
      • Hymn • “A Solis Ortus Cardine” (In English)
      • PDF Accompaniment • “Jesu Redemptor Omnium”
      • Video • “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
      • Announcement of Easter & the Movable Feasts • 2020
      • “Agincourt” • Do You Know This Hymn?
      • Liturgica • Interview with Chris Mueller on the Release of New CD
      • Fr. Peter Gee • My First Chant Teacher
      • Fantastic! • “Somber Yet Powerful” Advent Hymn
      • PDF • “Veni Veni Emmanuel” (2 Voices + Organ)
      • Four Steps • “Homeschoolers, learn an Advent hymn!”
      • (Archive) • St. Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal (2nd Edition)
      • Newman on Liturgy
    • ► November (14)
      • Fr. Wasilewski: “Evil” to Remove Pachamama Idols
      • Colin Mawby (1936-2019)
      • Are Choirmasters Allowed To Have A Bad Day?
      • New England Pueri Cantores Choral Festival and Mass • Cathedral of the Holy Cross
      • PDF Download • “Erunt Signa In Sole” (Advent)
      • Where do we go from here?
      • Dominican Priest Calls Gregorian Chant “Infantile”
      • Video • What Are Common Hymn Melodies?
      • New Stained Glass Windows of Military Saints
      • The Gratuity of Beauty
      • PDF Download • A Eucharistic Piece My Choir Loves
      • (1988) • Cardinal Ratzinger Addresses Chilean Bishops
      • If You Want to Catch All the Youth
      • Holy Souls in Purgatory • 15th-Century Missal Illumination
    • ► October (15)
      • A Professional Choir in Six (6) Years
      • What Choirmasters Do.
      • “Mass of the Americas” • Solemn Pontifical High Mass in DC
      • Fascinating! • Tridentine “Permission Slip” (1985)
      • New Typesetting! • “Kyriale Supplement” (1934)
      • PDF Download • Palestrina Kyrie (Part 2 of 3)
      • The Tradition Continues! • Seven Organists Perform
      • “Hidden” Hymns by Cardinal Newman
      • A Professional Choir in Six Months
      • Incredible!!! • Ancient Kyriale MSS for Download
      • PDF Download • SATB “Sanctus” by Orlando de Lassus
      • Pope Francis’ Address on Sacred Music: “Liturgy is the first ‘teacher’ of catechism.”
      • Pope Francis: “Promote The Presence Of The Schola Cantorum In Every Parish Community!”
      • Veronica Brandt • “Lalande Drop-Cap Letters”
      • A *What* School ?!!
    • ► September (27)
      • Brave Schola Director Posts iPhone Recording
      • Saint Paul’s Choir School • Open Houses
      • Brébeuf Review! • “Society for Catholic Liturgy”
      • So... You Can't Visit a Choir School
      • Art of the Beautiful Lecture Series 2019-2020
      • San Diego Cathedral • (TLM) Solemn High Mass!
      • PDF Download • Palestrina Kyrie “Fons Bonitatis”
      • Sense and Sensibility
      • Catholics Get The “Chants” of a Lifetime…
      • “Dies Irae” • Why Does It Appear In So Many Movies?
      • This Is a Cathedral, Not Disneyland
      • ($54,000 per year) • FSSP San Diego Seeks Choirmaster
      • Photographs • Père Daniel Kyriale (126 pages)
      • “How To Begin Choir Practice” • (A Suggestion)
      • PDF Download • “Alleluia Choral Extension” (EF + OF)
      • When People Lie About Hymns Unwittingly
      • PDF Download • Chant Notation—Nuptial Blessing (EF)
      • Revealed! • A Fascinating Mass Rubric Very Few Know
      • Leo Abbott to Rededicate Landmark E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings Organ, Opus 801
      • Do You Know Credo VII ??
      • Brébeuf #654 • “On Jordan’s Bank The Baptist’s Cry”
      • The 1961 Code of Rubrics • Pope St. John XXIII
      • Let the Fun Begin
      • Brébeuf #655 • “Hark! A Voice” (Advent Hymn)
      • Brébeuf #657 • “O Come, Divine Messiah” (Advent)
      • I. Was. Dead. Wrong.
      • PDF Download • Handy Solfège Chart (Printable)
    • ► August (11)
      • Broken Rosaries and a Triptych of Wisdom
      • Mr. Pete Avendano and His Incredible Choir
      • Five Suggestions • “Music in Our Schools”
      • Brébeuf #182 • “Creator Alme Siderum” (Advent)
      • Symposium 2019 • “Video Outtakes”
      • Five Rules • “Successful Music Camps”
      • Brébeuf #465 • “Christ Ist Erstanden” (In Latin!)
      • Brébeuf #661 • “Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus”
      • Southeastern Sacred Music Workshop 2019
      • Brébeuf #379 • “Quem Terra” (Melcombe)
      • PDF Download • “Sanctus For Two Voices”
    • ► July (22)
      • Brébeuf Hymn #464 • “Christ ist erstanden”
      • Announcing: Saint Rita Choral Academy!
      • Jennifer D. Behnke • “Brébeuf Hymnal Review”
      • The Day Music Theory Failed Me
      • A Call to Educate Our Future Musicians
      • Brébeuf Hymn #517 • “Veni Redemptor Gentium”
      • Brébeuf Hymn #156 • “Christe Redemptor”
      • “Boys Like A Challenge!” • Charles Cole Interviewed
      • Can Girls In The 2nd Grade Sing SATB Hymns?
      • PDF Download • “Seasonal Index” (Brébeuf Hymnal)
      • “For of all sad words of tongue or pen…”
      • (Individual Parts) • New Hymn by Richard J. Clark
      • Chant any Psalms and Antiphons
      • Our children must at the very least be exposed to the great music of the Church.
      • Hymn Harmony: Fifty Examples—Good and Bad!
      • In Support of the Choir School Tradition
      • In Gratitude for Choral Singers
      • Accompanying Gregorian Chant: “Counter-Melody”
      • “First Images” • Sacred Music Symposium 2019
      • (Live Recording) • Hymn by Richard J. Clark
      • “Keynote Address” • Sacred Music Symposium 2019
      • St. Paul’s Choir School Appoints New Director of Music
    • ► June (17)
      • In Search of the Deeper Meaning
      • When “Textbooks” Don’t Cut It
      • Symposium Booklets Have Arrived!
      • Fr. Finn and the Catholic Choral Tradition in America
      • Professional Photographs • Saint Isaac Jogues Missal
      • Solemn Novena for Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
      • Homeschooling (And Sacred Music) Snuck Up On Us
      • PDF Download • Symposium Booklet (159 pages)
      • Secrets Revealed
      • PDF Download • Vespers Organ Accompaniments
      • The Magnificat Institute of Sacred Music
      • Shortcuts with GrandOrgue
      • Where Did “Do-Re-Mi” Come From?
      • Photos • 1985 Ordination in China
      • PDF Download • “Magnificat” + Rehearsal Videos!
      • Heresy du Jour?
      • Exploring the World’s Largest Musical Instrument
    • ► May (14)
      • Learn To Sing SATB • “A New Approach!”
      • What Makes A “Catholic” Hymnal?
      • St. Mary’s Cathedral Choir (Sydney, Australia)
      • PDF Download • Palestrina “Gloria” w/ practice videos!
      • Further Thoughts on Westminster Cathedral
      • Installation of New Pipe Organ on Capitol Hill
      • PDF Download • Franz Liszt and Gregorian Chant
      • How Do You Mark Starting Pitches?
      • 1941 Mass (Chicago) mixed with 2017 Mass (FSSP)
      • To: Headmaster of Westminster Cathedral Choir School
      • “Common” Hymn Melodies • What are they?
      • Lulu Coupon • But Notice The Expiration Date!
      • PDF Download • Complete Kyriale on Modern Staves!
      • Repertoire • Sacred Music Symposium 2019
    • ► April (13)
      • A Reason To Hope
      • Josef Hofmann: “King of Pianists”
      • PDF Download • “Cheat Sheet” for Easter Vigil
      • PDF Download • Organ Interludes for Manuals!
      • Oreste Ravanello's Easy Pieces for Organ
      • Musical Program for Covid-19
      • The Amazing Uy Family Singers!
      • In 1991, Buchanan Predicted Ratzinger’s Election
      • (captured by iPhone) • Rehearsing for the Symposium
      • Brébeuf Harmony Edition • “Splendid Beyond Words”
      • PDF Download • Spectacular “Tenebrae” Booklet
      • St. Michael the Archangel Prayer…in Gregorian Chant!
      • PDF Download • Mystery Kyriale (100 Pages)
    • ► March (18)
      • Sacred Music US • Website for Fr. Weber’s Resources
      • How to Install Compline in Your Home
      • Beauty in the Service of the Lord
      • Flash Mob • Franz Biebl’s “Ave Maria”
      • New Musical Settings for the Blessing of the Holy Oils
      • Upgrading to a Missa Cantata for Singers
      • Funerals: The Most Challenging Pastoral Responsibility
      • A Short Piece We’re Singing For Lent
      • The Lorica of St. Patrick
      • A German Franciscan Soldier who Sang
      • “Sarum Rite” • Did it exist? What is it?
      • Offensive Music in Germany • Ash Wednesday (2019)
      • Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast
      • Every Church Musician Deserves Music Lessons
      • “The New Mass” • Discussed by Michael Davies, Malachi Martin, Msgr. Champlin, and William F. Buckley
      • “Lacuna” • An Actual One—Not A Fake One
      • Leo XIII to St. Katharine Drexel: “What about you?”
      • God of Mercy and Compassion
    • ► February (12)
      • PDF • “Additional Versions of the Credo” (1934)
      • Strive for Greatness!
      • New Resource! • Chant Videos for Treble Voices
      • "Woman of No Distinction" World Premiere
      • When You Go To Mass … Be This Guy!
      • An Outrageous “Paradox” I Cannot Accept
      • Sacred Architecture and Brexit
      • Update! • Accompaniments for the Brébeuf Hymnal
      • The Cantor and Congregational Singing
      • Breaking! • Father Edwin C. Dwyer Development?
      • “Your Choirmaster” • What Nobody Realizes
      • Fourth-Century Advice for Choir Directors
    • ► January (16)
      • When Hymn Names Don’t Match
      • Formed in Beauty Lectures
      • New! • Organ Scholarships at Christendom College
      • Just Released! • 2019 Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music (Archbishop Sample)
      • PDF Download • “Chant Service Book” (208 pages)
      • Music Leads Us to Heaven
      • 2nd Sunday after Epiphany • Saint Vitus Parish (LA)
      • Trappist Monks in Hong Kong Chanting
      • Bishop Barron Vs. Hymn by Marty Haugen (2018)
      • “Church Music Manifesto” (2019)
      • Two February Workshops
      • New England Catholic Choral Festival & Mass • 2019
      • “How To Use The Brébeuf Hymnal” (Video)
      • “Missa de Angelis” • But in Iroquoian! (1865)
      • “Mister Eye” • Do You Mind Him?
      • Marcel Dupré • “Live” Recording (2 Feb 1964)
  • ► 2018 (229)
    • ► December (12)
      • New Chair of Sacred Music at US Seminary
      • PDF Booklet • Christmas Midnight Mass (36 pages)
      • Hope • A Side of the Boston Cathedral No One Sees
      • The Most Popular Hymn Tunes? • A List
      • Counter-Melodies • “Accompaniment of Psalm Tones”
      • Christmas Midnight Mass • Saint Vitus Parish (LA)
      • 2019 • Announcement of Easter & Moveable Feasts • Novus Ordo
      • Seven Tips • “Directing A Catholic Choir”
      • PDF • “Creator Alme Siderum” (Organ Accompaniment)
      • Exclusive images! • Draft Pages (Brébeuf Hymnal)
      • PDF Download • “Easy Organ Interludes” (229 pages)
      • How Does Benedict XVI Perceive His Retirement?
    • ► November (13)
      • PDF • “Ecclesia Dei” Responses (14 November 2018)
      • Millennials and Authenticity
      • First Sunday of Advent at Saint Vitus Parish (LA)
      • The Only Hymn Father Fortescue Ever Wrote
      • Musicians in Collaborative Parishes • Sharing Best Practices
      • Portland Publishes an “Archdiocesan Liturgical Handbook”
      • PDF Download • Mass Hymns by Fr. Seed, SJ (1906)
      • Hymn Texts by Fr. Christopher Phillips
      • Incredible Advent/Christmas Resource for Families
      • Chorister Catechesis
      • PDF Download • “Pope Pius XII Hymnal” (1959)
      • “Last” Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Fulton Sheen on the Priesthood of the Baptized
    • ► October (18)
      • A Refresher on Chorister Training
      • “Source Material” • The Saint Jean de Brébeuf Hymnal
      • “Lord, take not only my nose…” (Fr. Jogues)
      • Proclaiming Christ’s Kingship
      • Leeds Cathedral and the Schools Singing Program
      • Solemn High Mass with Faure's Requiem on All Souls' Day
      • Mark Dwyer • Concert to Benefit the E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings (1875) Organ at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross
      • Incredible News! • Re: Mæstro Richard J. Clark
      • Participation Booklet (Spanish) for Extraordinary Form Baptisms
      • Acompañamientos • MISAL ROMANO, Tercera Edición
      • 22nd Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • PDF Download • “Sanctus” (SATB) by JS Bach!
      • Absolute Last Chance: Period!
      • Live Recording Snippet • Vespers at Saint Vitus
      • Participation Booklet for Extraordinary Form Baptisms
      • Archbishop Anthony Fisher Apologizes
      • Success! • Sacred Music Retreat in Ohio
      • PDF Download • “Christmas Carol” by Peter Lejeune
    • ► September (19)
      • 19th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Scott Hahn: “Thomas More & John Fisher”
      • 2015 Review • “American Catholic Hymnbook”
      • Saint Thérèse Triduum
      • Radio Interview • Óscar Romero & New Beginnings
      • 18th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Can You Say “Theft” ??
      • Ronald Knox • His Actual Voice!
      • Guest Article • “Composing a Responsorial Psalm”
      • Fearfully and Wonderfully Made • New Work for Trumpet and Organ
      • Healey Willan on Chant
      • The Problem with the Universal Prayer of the Church
      • 17th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • 21 Thoughts • “Exterior Actions at Mass”
      • A Dramatic Moment
      • New Season! New Beginning!
      • Masses to Begin at FSSP Parish in Philadelphia
      • “The Story Of The Adoremus Hymnal”
      • 16th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
    • ► August (19)
      • New Catholic Choral School…in Detroit!
      • Join a Choir! Now!
      • Simple Mass Propers (1909)
      • Saving the Church, One Choir at a Time
      • PDF • Scottish Catholic Hymnal (453 Pages)
      • New Discovery in Canada
      • “Adoro Te Devote” • A Bad Translation in Hymnals
      • 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • “Vatican II Hymnal” (1974) by Terry L. Haws
      • Rehearsal videos • “Gloria” by Father Victoria
      • 13th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • A Chinese “Ave Maria”
      • PDF Download • “Leeds Catholic Hymnal” (232 pages)
      • The New Spanish Missal as Opportunity
      • Janet Hunt and Music of the Pipe Organ • “On a Sacred Note”
      • PDF Download • “Sunday Vespers”
      • Precious in the Eyes of the Lord is the Death of His Faithful One
      • Video Recording • Pro-Arte Saint Louis
      • Scogna and Olbash talk Gregorian Chant • “On a Sacred Note”
    • ► July (19)
      • Expectations Exceeded at the Symposium!
      • Remarkable Quote About Low Mass
      • Puzzle • “Now Thank We All Our God”
      • My Trip to Canada
      • 1934 Footage • Gregorian Chant in Chicago
      • “Arundel Catholic Hymns” • Hymns Chosen and Edited by the Duke of Norfolk
      • Brébeuf Hymnal • “Behind the Scenes”
      • A Model for Parish Revitalization (Ordinary Form)
      • PDF Canon • “Non Nobis Domine” (William Byrd)
      • Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference 2018
      • Rehearsal videos • “Kyrie” by Josquin des Prez (d. 1521)
      • The Sung Canon
      • What Happens When A Choirmaster Gets Sad?
      • (Video) • Closing Mass of Symposium 2018
      • Flos Carmeli for a Carmelite Novena
      • Music Conference in Rome (September 2018)
      • iPhone Clip • “Sight-Reading Hymns”
      • Of Estate Sales, Prayers, and Mass Attendance
      • Impressions from Sacred Music Colloquium 2018
    • ► June (21)
      • Saint Vitus Roman Catholic Church • Los Angeles, CA
      • Gregorian Impressions • Plainchant Settings for Organ
      • How to be a Good Choir Member?
      • (Recorded Live) • “Agnus Dei” at the Symposium
      • Novena for Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
      • iPhone Clip • From Sacred Music Symposium 2018
      • Sacred Music Camp in Allentown, NJ
      • James David Christie • International Performer of the Year
      • Raising the Musical Standards (Part 2)
      • “Come Holy Ghost” • Improvisation
      • Sacred Music Camp for Children in Philadelphia
      • Save the World: Build More Carmels
      • Perpetual Succour Passes the Equator
      • “No, I was taught that in school…”
      • Raising the Musical Standards (Part 1)
      • The Beauty of Dance
      • Sanctus & Benedictus • “Ave Maris Stella” (Victoria)
      • CCW Receives Praise … on Television!
      • Sacred Music Symposium (2018)
      • FSSP Camp in Sydney, Australia
      • “On a Sacred Note” • Catholic TV Network • 13 Part Series on Sacred Music
    • ► May (20)
      • Is The Brébeuf Hymnal Too Scrupulous?
      • Summer Sacred Music Workshop 2018
      • Can Plainsong Be Harmonized? • (Rehearsal Video)
      • How Serious Are They About The Accent?
      • Marian Concert: Carmelite Sisters and Credo Choir
      • The Centrality of the Sign of the Cross
      • Rehearsal videos • Missa “Ave Maris Stella” (Victoria)
      • Benedictines in Tasmania a Year Already
      • “Outer Space Hymn” (1966) • In A Catholic Hymnal
      • Too Much Emphasis On Liturgy? • A Response
      • Serving Latin Mass • Learn from FSSP Seminarians!
      • Fota XI Liturgy Conference
      • Hereford Cathedral Choir to Sing at the Vatican
      • Los Angeles • Audio Excerpts from Solemn Mass
      • “Pater Noster” by Monsignor Jules Van Nuffel
      • 11:00am Choir Page
      • Saint Vitus Choir Page
      • The Wethersfield Institute Chant Workshop
      • “Priests of God, bless the Lord!” • Practice Video
      • PDF Download • A “Bright” Eucharistic Hymn
    • ► April (18)
      • (Transcript) • Archbishop Sample’s Sermon from the National Shrine Solemn Pontifical Mass
      • Choosing Choral Repertoire
      • Yesterday’s Solemn Mass Was An Inflection Point
      • This Saturday! • Solemn Pontifcal Mass in D.C.
      • Directing A Choir: Are You Tough Enough?
      • Opportunity to study Polyphony in San Francisco
      • Spanish Missal Chants Now Available
      • Listening and Mission
      • Teaching Gregorian Chant to Boys with Changed Voices
      • What does Cicero have to do with the Breviary?
      • Photos • Two Recent Solemn Masses in Hong Kong
      • Tone Quality and Your Singers
      • The Turns at Benediction
      • “ Dissonance? ” • Gregorian Accompaniment
      • Ratzinger’s 1987 Letter to a Former Catechism Student
      • “Crotalus” • How Does It Sound?
      • I Was Wrong to Dread the “Pre-1955” Holy Week
      • Summer Chant Courses—Dunwoodie
    • ► March (17)
      • FSSP Palm Sunday (2018) • “Pre-1955 Rubrics”
      • Ratchets instead of Bells for your Electric Angelus
      • PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for “Vexilla Regis” (Hymn) by Fr. Adrian Fortescue
      • Musical Resources • Holy Thursday (FSSP, 2018)
      • Liturgy outside Liturgy
      • Towards An Online (Modern) Palestrina Edition
      • Fighting With A Bishop • Good Idea?
      • The Preface of the Holy Cross
      • Eight Lessons • “Make Musicians Love Working With You”
      • Are Canonisations Infallible?
      • A Literal Translation of the New Testament
      • 4th Sunday of Lent (“Laetare Sunday”)
      • When Music Encounters Religion
      • PDF Download • Rare German Hymnal (879 pages)
      • New Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
      • 3rd Sunday of Lent (Extraordinary Form)
      • Blue Heron shines the light on Ockeghem—“The best composer you’ve never heard”
    • ► February (21)
      • Contemporary “Stabat Mater” (SATB)
      • “Tu Es Petrus” (Rec. 2017 Symposium)
      • Build your Music Theory Skills
      • “First Run Through” • Guerrero’s Kyrie
      • The Smoke of Satan
      • Building Your Choir Vocally
      • Rare Lenten Hymns You’ve Not Sung
      • St. Thomas More on the Reception of Holy Communion
      • Towards a Standard Protocol for Frayed Ribbons
      • Phone Interview • Fr. Guy Nicholls, Cong. Orat.
      • Hymn Tunes That Are Actually The Same
      • Review • Fr. White’s Tools for Rebuilding
      • “Live Excerpts” … With One Rehearsal
      • 1940’s Prayer for Priests
      • How Medieval Books Were Made
      • Brave Schola Director Posts “Live” Recording 1
      • Music in Catholic Schools
      • “Transfigured” Young Adult Liturgy Conference
      • Sexagesima Sunday (Extraordinary Form)
      • Video • Ratzinger made a Cardinal by Paul VI
      • A Chinese Mass Setting
    • ► January (32)
      • Sacra Liturgia 2019 in Toronto
      • Cardinal Zen’s Open Letter
      • Repetition at the School Mass: “Do it again!”
      • PDF Download • “Agnus Dei” … for Lent
      • The Hillbilly Thomists
      • Can You Sing Along to Monks?
      • Septuagesima Sunday (Extraordinary Form)
      • FREE • Chant Conducting Seminar
      • English Prayers at EF Mass • How old are they?
      • Forward, Ever Forward!
      • PDF Download • Dom Pothier Biography (1947)
      • Dedication of the Cathedral Basilica of Mary, Queen of the World
      • PDF • “Hosanna” Catholic Hymnal (285 Pages)
      • Two Choral Works and Propers for Lent
      • 3rd Sunday after Epiphany (Extraordinary Form)
      • Spanish Subtitles Added • Absolutely Superb!
      • What If...
      • Revealed • Sacred Music Symposium Dates!
      • Should Liturgy Be Practical?
      • St. Therese Carmelite School • Bright Ray Of Hope!
      • Msgr. Michael F. Groden’s Contribution to Sacred Music
      • PDF Download • Easy Hymn with Melody in Tenor
      • Don’ts for Choirmasters (Part 2)
      • Does CCW Matter? Some Messages…
      • PDF Download • Anglican Hymnal (1,151 pages)
      • Mutuality vs. Male Headship within Marriage
      • Tweaking Linebreaks Online with Gregorio
      • 2018 • Christendom College Choral Scholarships!
      • PDF Download • Best Hymnal Ever Printed?
      • Don'ts for Choirmasters (Part 1)
      • [español] Sound Does Matter!
      • Sound Does Matter!
  • ► 2017 (371)
    • ► December (37)
      • “Te Deum” • Printable 4-Page Sheet
      • “Veni Creator Spiritus” • with Fortescue’s English Translation
      • USCCB Assesses Impact of “Magnum Principium”
      • GABC Propers Tool Revisited
      • Of the Father's Love Begotten...
      • [español] Your Christmas Present
      • Your Christmas Present!
      • Midnight Mass (4th Sunday of December)
      • Lux Fulgebit: Mass at Dawn of Christmas Day
      • Epiphany Proclamation 2018
      • Cardinal Sarah to celebrate TLM on 21 May 2018
      • Xmas Image • Print for Children to Color
      • The Marvels of Choral Singing
      • Can You Say “Theft” ?
      • Six Videos • Gregorian Chant (2017)
      • “Death” • By John Henry Cardinal Newman
      • PDF Download • Kyrie “O Magnum Mysterium”
      • How Should Renaissance Music Be Sung?
      • Gray Book for Baptism of Children Approved
      • Not That Gaudete
      • Discouragement and Hope
      • 3rd Sunday of Advent (3rd of December)
      • Video • A Chinese Offertory Hymn
      • PDF Download • “Rorate Mass” (13 pages) —Dec 2017
      • Latin Mass Youth Choir…in Las Vegas!
      • Advent Piece for 2 Voices
      • Knowledge of the Infant Lord
      • Online Advent Calendars 2017
      • PDF Download • Immac. Conception Booklet
      • “Creator Alme Siderum” (Guerrero)
      • Quickest Psalm Tone Ever Created
      • Holy Purity & Anger
      • Rorate Caeli • “Very Ancient Catholic Song”
      • 2nd Sunday of Advent (2nd of December)
      • Tantum Ergo Comically Misunderstood in Italian
      • 360º Footage of Vespers • How cool is this?
      • I’ve made this an essential part of concert preparation.
    • ► November (32)
      • PDF Download • “How To Serve Mass” (1651)
      • Msgr. Knox • “Ten Commandments” for Crime Stories
      • 7 Rules • “Your Family and Adventide”
      • PBS • “Gregorian Chant at the Seminary”
      • 40% savings!
      • PDF Download • “Evening Masses and Days of Obligation” (58 pages)
      • Sing Salve Regina in Your Rosary
      • Final Sunday after Pentecost (4th in November)
      • “Simultaneous Fulfillment” of Mass Obligation?
      • Unapologetically Roman Catholic in New York City
      • Arvo Pärt received the Ratzinger Prize
      • “Meet Me In St. Louis”
      • Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua…
      • PDF Download • Authentic Irish Hymnal (164 pages)
      • Choir Members Photograph
      • “23rd” {repeat} Sunday after Pentecost (3rd in November)
      • A Hymn That Just Keeps Popping Up
      • The Man Who Thrice Rejected Knighthood
      • SATB “Alleluia” (Fr. Morales) • for both OF and EF
      • Music and Evangelization
      • Fulton J. Sheen • “Hints On Public Speaking”
      • 23rd Sunday after Pentecost (2nd in November)
      • Image • Francisco Guerrero (d. 1599)
      • Vox Antiqua’s Debut
      • The Real Reason We Sing
      • New English Hymnal • Voice-Leading
      • Archbishop Sheen Played The Organ!
      • 6 Suggestions • “Promoting The Latin Mass”
      • Prayers of Preparation and Farewell
      • Never Print With Adobe Acrobat
      • PDF Download • All Souls Day
      • Video • My New Project
    • ► October (32)
      • Brave Director Posts “Live” Recording
      • Hymn by Professor at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary
      • Powerful & Thought-Provoking
      • PDF Download • Congregational “Dies Irae”
      • All Saints and the Extraordinary Form of the Mass
      • A Requiem on All Souls Day at St. Patrick's Cathedral
      • Christ The King Sunday (5th in October)
      • Josquin Des Prez Vandalized Stuff (!)
      • Singing with Peter Philips
      • “Why Sacred Music Hasn’t Been Killed” [Six Reasons]
      • The Spirit of All Souls’ Day
      • [299 pages] • Simple Polyphony For Choirs
      • January 7-12 • Mahrt, Weber, and Buchholz!
      • Sensational Testimony • On Our Feastday!
      • 20th Sunday after Pentecost (4th in October)
      • PDF Download • Rare German Hymnal
      • Video • “Subveníte Sancti Dei” (Requiem)
      • 6th-Century Icon: God of Mercy and Justice
      • Christus Vincit - Christ Conquers
      • 19th Sunday after Pentecost (3rd in October)
      • Saturday! • Bishop Serratelli to offer Solemn EF Mass
      • The Problem of Acedia
      • PDF Download • Responsorial Psalms (502 Pages)
      • In the Beauty of Holiness: Music and the Transcendent
      • EF Introit for this coming Sunday: “Da Pacem”
      • Three Entrance Antiphons for the Celebration of Marriage
      • 18th Sunday after Pentecost (2nd in October)
      • A Liturgical Tragedy
      • Superlative Way To Explain Polyphony
      • Agnus Dei • “Missa Mille Regretz” by Fr. Cristóbal de Morales (d. 1553)
      • A Silver Jubilee
      • Printable Card • “Prayers at the Foot of the Altar”
    • ► September (31)
      • Corda Pia - A Franciscan Hymn
      • Church Music Dubia Remain Unanswered
      • Video • All Priests Should Learn Traditional Latin Mass
      • Translations By Non-Catholics In A Catholic Hymnal?
      • Liturgical Education
      • Album: Sacred Treasures of England
      • How Much Latin Do You Need?
      • Chants • Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (October 7th)
      • The New Way of the “Sistina”
      • PDF Download • “Missal for the Laity” (1846)
      • 16th Sunday after Pentecost (4th in September)
      • PDF Download • “Lauda Sion” Hymnal (1886)
      • Five Ways To Make Dogma “Live Loudly Within You”
      • Two Transatlantic Choir Tours
      • Catena Legionis in Gregorian Chant
      • “O Sanctissima” • SATB Contemporary Setting!
      • 15th Sunday after Pentecost (3rd in September)
      • Origins of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
      • Does Watershed Make A Difference?
      • Seven Observations About The Latin Mass
      • Art of the Beautiful Lecture Series 2017-2018
      • The Place of Pews in the Church
      • Theodore Marier • “Good Hymns for Worship” (1957)
      • Saint Paul’s Choir School • New CD with AimHigher Recordings/Sony Classical
      • 14th Sunday after Pentecost (2nd in September)
      • Report • Hong Kong Summer Choral Workshops
      • Sacred Music Workshop • Allentown, NJ
      • Video • Rehearsal Excerpt with Kevin Allen
      • Arbeit Macht Frei, or Ora et Labora
      • Implement Vatican II • Pope Francis Invokes “Magisterial Authority”
      • “Beatus Vir Editions” Announces New Publication
    • ► August (25)
      • 13th Sunday after Pentecost (1st in September)
      • Thoughts That Enter A Choirmaster’s Mind
      • John the Baptist and the Meaning of Marriage
      • Report • Summer Sacred Music Workshop 2017
      • Very Great Mischiefs Which Arise From The Use Of Polyphony By Religious Orders (1610)
      • Musical Resources • 12th Sunday after Pentecost
      • Volunteer Choirs • Rehearsal “Tricks”
      • Ministry of Consolation • A Case for Congregational Singing at Funerals
      • What Do Catholic Teenagers Sing?
      • Musical Resources • 11th Sunday after Pentecost 1
      • PDF Download • “O Esca Viatorum”
      • Ordo Missæ from “People’s Mass Book” (1964)
      • Tenth Anniversary Celebration • “Summorum Pontificum”
      • “That’s not Eucharistic” • Why We Sing the Communion Antiphons
      • Musical Resources • 10th Sunday after Pentecost 1
      • Learn From Children Choristers
      • Fr. George Rutler Speaks Candidly On Church Music
      • Fr. Patrick T. Brannan, SJ • My Tribute
      • PDF Download • “Hymns Ancient & Modern”
      • The Scandal and Allure of the Priesthood
      • Telephone Conversation w/ Faculty
      • “Chanted Angelus” • Where does it come from?
      • Chants for the Feast of the Transfiguration
      • Musical Resources • Feast of the Transfiguration
      • In Defense of the “Sistine Screamers”
    • ► July (27)
      • Major Typo • This Sunday's Introit
      • Pastoral Care of Persons with Disabilites
      • The “Charism” of Saying “No”
      • How Is The “Kiss of Peace” Done Properly?
      • Musical Resources • 8th Sunday after Pentecost
      • Seven Rules for Church Music (Sir Richard Terry)
      • Video • FSSP Altar Server Training Camp
      • What really happened at the Convocation of Catholic Leaders
      • “Tu Es Petrus” • Commissioned for the Symposium
      • Seven Rules for Writing Sermons
      • Recording • Choral Mattins with John Rutter
      • “Mode 4” • How To Teach Your Choir
      • Palestrina and the Perfecting of the Medieval Ideal of Music as Rational • (Part 3 of 3)
      • Video • Wilko Brouwers
      • Organ Improvisation • Stupefyingly Awesome!
      • Carmel 1
      • Solemn Mass • 1941 vs. 2017
      • Benedict XVI’s Message At Cardinal Meisner’s Funeral
      • Culmen Et Fons 2017 • On Liturgical Formation • September 18-22
      • Singing with John Rutter
      • Does Polyphony “Fit” Ordinary Form Masses?
      • PDF Download • (2,292 Pages) Choral Music in Latin & English by Richard Rice
      • JPII: “The Roman Church Has Special Obligations to Latin”
      • Symposium 2017 Was A Spectacular Success!
      • The Most Sensitive Musical Instrument
      • Formation in the Liturgy
      • On Emptiness, Wisdom, and Fortune • Music and Discernment
    • ► June (23)
      • Strong with God's Strength 1
      • Summer Sacred Music Workshop 2017
      • Triumph Beyond Belief … Beyond Imagination
      • Composition with Pencil & Paper or Computer Software?
      • “Do not let anyone make you feel discouraged.”
      • Holy Week Bulletin from 1943
      • Jaw-Dropping Kyrie (SATB) by Guerrero
      • Silence in the Liturgy
      • Wearing the Veil at Ordinary Form Masses?
      • Forming the Next Generation of Church Musicians
      • Nothing More Corny Than This
      • First Solemn Mass • Fr. Joseph Favole, FSSP
      • Liturgical Reflections of a Papal Master of Ceremonies
      • Benedictus has been posted!
      • I forgot to tell them it’s supposed to be hard.
      • Live Recording from Macau Cathedral
      • Introit • Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity • Free Download
      • Altar Servers’ Camp • Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
      • Scientia Linguæ Latinæ Voluptatem Et Gaudium Affert!
      • Thoughts on Benedict
      • Musical Resources • Pentecost Sunday 1
      • Musical Resources • Pentecost Sunday
      • Entertainment in the Liturgy and Our True Responsibility
    • ► May (27)
      • Psalm Tones Beyond A Doubt
      • The Sequences as Popular Works of Liturgical Creativity
      • Pastorally Imperative: They are all we have.
      • Horrible Hymn Rhymes
      • Josquin Desprez • A Marian Masterpiece
      • Promo Video • Upcoming FSSP Ordinations
      • Rehearsal Videos • “Sanctus & Hosanna” (Guerrero)
      • An Unpleasant Task
      • Antiphon Journal Expands Its Archives
      • New Compositions Worthy Of Your Attention
      • Women Who Wear The Mantilla In Church
      • Archbishop Sheen on Liturgy & Plainchant Choirs
      • Rehearsal Videos • “Ave Sacer Christi Sanguis”
      • Rehearsal Videos • Guerrero “Agnus Dei” (SSATB)
      • Recruiting and Auditioning Choristers
      • EWTN Video • Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
      • Podcast on Sacred Music
      • Ten “Ave Maria” Settings from Different Lands
      • Church Musicians are called to be Good Shepherds
      • May Is Dedicated To Mary
      • Musical Resources • 4th Sunday after Easter (1962)
      • Guerrero's Gloria from “Missa Iste Sanctus”
      • Fota X Conference (and other Summer Opportunities)
      • Fulton J. Sheen • World's Most Progressive Bishop?
      • Why the Pipe Organ?
      • Kids Are Colorblind But Adults Are Not
      • A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
    • ► April (38)
      • Masterful “Salve Regina” by 17th-Century Portuguese Composer
      • Justice Antonin Scalia on Church Music
      • Sing everyday! Regina Caeli!
      • The Older I Get…
      • Is This Any Way to Pray at Mass?
      • 2nd Macau International Choir Festival
      • Take 2 Voice Lessons and Call Me in the Morning
      • Brace Yourself • “Raw” Recordings from Solemn Mass
      • PDF Download • “Compline for Sunday”
      • Nine Questions About The Latin Mass You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask
      • The Dedication of a Church • The Shrine of Our Lady of Good Voyage, Boston
      • Musical Resources • “Quasimodo Sunday”
      • Patterns in the Easter Sequence
      • Chorister Training • Regensburg Cathedral Choir School
      • Palestrina and the Perfecting of the Medieval Ideal of Music as Rational • (Part 2 of 3)
      • PDF Download • Last Minute Holy Saturday File
      • Introducing the Wethersfield Institute Chant Workshop
      • “Reproaches” for Good Friday (Recording)
      • Descent into Hell and The Greatest Act of Love
      • Do these Holy Thursday rubrics strike you as odd?
      • Musical Resources • Holy Thursday (EF)
      • “Contemporary” Catholic Music • Is it truly dead?
      • Accompaniment: “Credo III” (Parochial Hymnal)
      • PDF Download • Booklet for Congregation
      • Square Note App
      • Members’ Page • Sacred Music Symposium 2018
      • 33 Days to Marian Consecration
      • Musical Resources • Palm Sunday (1962) 1
      • Intensely Powerful • “Requiem” Production (FSSP)
      • Sing Everything From the Viewpoint of the Resurrection
      • It is Finished
      • Strong Vibrato • What Do You Think?
      • Family Life and the Sacred Liturgy
      • Mesmerizing Credo Setting (SATB) • After Machaut
      • Two Articles Worth Reading
      • Two Popes Singing “Our Father” in Latin
      • Musical Resources • 5th Sunday of Lent (“Passion”)
      • Liturgical Language Barriers
    • ► March (35)
      • “Adoro te devote” (SATB) • Rehearsal Videos
      • Reconstructed 16th-Century Mass
      • Commercial Pop Culture + Church Music?
      • Why I Never Repeat Pieces With My Choir
      • “The World” • What is the world?
      • Palestrina and the Perfecting of the Medieval Ideal of Music as Rational • (Part 1 of 3)
      • The Fully Sung Mass
      • Professional Video • Real, Live, Irish Monks!
      • World’s Easiest Organ Processional (PDF)
      • The Joy of Penance
      • New Music in Honor of Óscar Romero • E. Ethelbert Miller & Richard J. Clark
      • Easter Hymn: “O Filii et Filiæ” • Contemporary setting (SATB)
      • Musical Resources • 4th Sunday of Lent (“Laetare”)
      • PDF Download • Booklet for St. Joseph (19 March)
      • What to Do with the “Fourth Option”
      • Musical Resources • 3rd Sunday of Lent 1
      • Quote Video • “Legislation on Sacred Music”
      • Not “What” but “Why” is Fascinating
      • Do we need hymns, when we already have Psalms?
      • Dunwoodie Chant Conference • Review of a Successful Event
      • How Low Can You Sing?
      • Fighting With Choir Members?
      • A CD from on High for Benedictines in Tasmania
      • Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Lent 1
      • Pope Francis, Sacred Music, and the Biggest Stage
      • GoFundMe Campaign • Needing Scholarships!
      • Revisiting Musicam Sacram
      • Let Everything That Hath Breath Praise the Lord!
      • Vatican II • What You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask
      • PDF Download • “Antiphonale Romanum” (1949)
      • Is There Music in Heaven?
      • Did You Forget This Fabulous Lenten Hymn?
      • Pope Francis on musical quality: “mediocrity, superficiality, and banality”
      • O Crux Ave, partial recording
      • Choirmasters, Your Job Is Hard Beyond A Doubt
    • ► February (26)
      • Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (1891-1976)
      • EF Divine Office Resource • Daily Recordings of Lauds
      • The Purpose of Art
      • Making rehearsal CDs and finding mp3s
      • Four Real Reasons for Roman Catholic Funerals
      • 7 Points • “The Joy of Lent”
      • “Morae Vocis” acc. to the Vatican Edition
      • PDF Download • “Cantus Varii” (469 Pages)
      • Music and the Imagination
      • 2-1 Suspension in Guerrero Motet
      • Will All Men Be Saved? 1
      • Musical Resources • Sexagesima Sunday 1
      • The Pedagogy of the School Mass Liturgy
      • Feature Video • London Oratory Schola
      • Singing for Cardinal Burke's Pontifical Low Mass
      • Refutations • “Can the Latin Mass be enriched?”
      • Who I Am
      • “A Trip to the Sacred Music Symposium” • (Film)
      • Beauty, Music and the Sacred Liturgy
      • Musical Resources • Septuagesima Sunday 1
      • Pope Benedict XVI on this Sunday's Introit
      • The Japanese Martyrs
      • “The Return of the SSPX”
      • God Has No Need of Our Music
      • Did we meet our fundraising goal?
      • Invest in your Music Program!
    • ► January (38)
      • Photos • Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference
      • In Defense of the Organ Postlude 1
      • Mind-Blowing SATB Canon
      • In Defense of the Organ Postlude
      • Conference Updates
      • PDF Download • “Sing the Angelus” (Plainchant)
      • Chorister Pitfalls
      • Musical Resources • 4th Sunday after Epiphany
      • More From The New Microphone
      • Motet for Three Voices: “O Crux Ave” 1
      • Communion Antiphons for Lent & Easter • NEW • World Library Publications
      • Debriefing "Silence"
      • PDF • “The Book of Ceremonies” (629 pages)
      • Courageous Schola Director Posts “Live” Recording
      • Nine Rubrics for Mass in the Extraordinary Form
      • Cosmic Harmony
      • Ratzinger talks “Ad Orientem” (2003)
      • Forget the First Note, give me the Do
      • Nuptial Blessings • Practice Videos • Order of Celebrating Matrimony
      • Fr. Magiera Reviews The Campion Hymnal
      • The Role of Catholic Church Choir
      • Practice Tracks • Ainslie’s “English Proper Chants”
      • Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday after Epiphany
      • When to Teach Children to Sight-Read Plainsong
      • “Ten Commandments” • for the Choirmaster
      • Recording of Announcement of Easter and Movable Feasts • 2017
      • PDF Download • Epiphany Booklet (FSSP.la)
      • Best Mystery Movie Of All Time!
      • PDF Download • “Missa de Angelis” (Fr. Castro)
      • The Hallowed Name 1
      • Musical Resources • Holy Family (EF)
      • Major Problems with “Holy Family” Feast
      • New Microphone
      • God or Nothing
      • New! • Easy Choral Extension Mass (Ordinary Form)
      • “Table Altar” vs. “High Altar” (Novus Ordo)
      • A Majestic Christmas Hymn That Isn't Difficult
      • New Details on Dunwoodie Chant Conference
  • ► 2016 (441)
    • ► December (37)
      • Brave Schola Director Posts “Live” Recording…
      • Mary was one of the strongest women to ever walk planet Earth.
      • The longest 54 seconds in a Missa Cantata
      • A Christmas Carol
      • “The Journey of the Magi”
      • Proof Good People Still Exist
      • Christmas • When Jackie Gleason Broke Character (Updated)
      • “Immense in the form of God, tiny in the form of a slave”
      • Epiphany Proclamation 2017
      • Opening Our Hearts At Christmas
      • 60 Minutes • “The Pope's Choir” (Sistine Chapel)
      • Shortest “Kyrie” Palestrina Ever Wrote
      • Appropriate Music for the Sacred Liturgy
      • Random Acts of Beauty: the Vestment Fund
      • Art is an act of love.
      • Come to Sydney for a Retreat in Silence and Song
      • Musical Resources • Christmas Midnight Mass (EF)
      • Musical Resources • 4th Sunday of Advent (EF)
      • A Late Gift for Nicholasmas
      • Bauer Family Sings “O Magnum Mysterium”
      • The Historic Adaptability of the Marriage Rite
      • PDF Download • “Rorate Mass” Booklet
      • Strong Leadership and Admitting Mistakes • Two Stories
      • Help! Why does my printer leave off the clivis?
      • Musical Resources • 3rd Sunday of Advent (EF)
      • Print This For Your Children To Color
      • PDF Download • Immac. Conception Music Booklet
      • And Now … Some Fantastic News!
      • “Ad Orientem” • Archbishop Naumann’s Letter
      • Where Does Your Heart Lie?
      • Bishop of Manchester • Letter Re: “Ad Orientem”
      • Communion Antiphons for Christmas on “Sounds from the Spires”
      • Lay Faithful Have Begun A Facebook Page
      • The Renewal of Adoremus
      • Does Your Choir Sing Perfectly?
      • Nostalgia Is Not Rigid
      • Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Advent (EF)
    • ► November (35)
      • “Benedictus” • Palestrina Uses The “Dragnet” Theme!
      • Unbelievable Track Recorded By One Voice!
      • Today Only! 40% off musical scores
      • Musical Resources • 1st Sunday of Advent 1
      • Update on Sacra Liturgia Milano 2017
      • Meatless Fridays • Were We Taught Correctly?
      • Thanksgiving
      • Free Download • Simple Choral Midnight Mass Introit
      • Cardinal Sarah Visits The Monastery of Solesmes
      • PDF Download • “Ordo Missæ” As We Use It
      • Pastors & Church Musicians: Are We Really Working Together?
      • Resplendent Christmas Piece for Two Voices!
      • A Triptych on Mercy • Reflection III
      • Fr. James Fryar, FSSP, on EWTN (16 November 2016)
      • Liturgy and Sensory Issues
      • A Dad’s Dilemma • I pray and God determines.
      • Seven Tips for the Organist
      • Did Pope Francis Denigrate “Rigid” Young Catholics?
      • Gorgeous Picture • “The Visitation”
      • A Triptych on Mercy • Reflection II
      • Gregorian chant is not all the same
      • The Legacy of Martin of Tours
      • Musical Resources • 13 November (1962 Missal)
      • CMAA Winter Sacred Music 2017
      • Complete “Ite Missa Est” for Parish Organist
      • Sonnen: “I’ve never seen such a fine work of art.”
      • Do You Recognize This Hymn Tune? 1
      • Hysteria Over CDW Appointments?
      • Do You Recognize This Hymn Tune?
      • Catholic Liturgy in Secular Sweden
      • A Triptych on Mercy • Reflection I
      • Musical Resources • 6 November (Extraordinary Form)
      • Seraphim Singers Premiere “I Am the Land: A Poem in Memory of Óscar Romero”
      • New Release! • “Dies Irae” Rehearsal Video
      • “Sanctus” Recorded By Young Ladies From Las Vegas • Fabulous!
    • ► October (32)
      • Musical Resources • Feast of Christ the King
      • “Kyrie VIII” Organ Accompaniment by Flor Peeters
      • The “Cantiones Sacrae” of William Byrd & Thomas Tallis
      • Christus Vincit - Laudes Regiae
      • What you didn't realize about World Youth Day…
      • PDF Download • “Mass of the Alabaster Jar” (2016)
      • New Sacred Music Magazine — “Altare Dei”
      • New Document on Christian Burial and Cremation
      • I Say: “Good for Marty Haugen”
      • Music for the Year of Mercy
      • PDF Download • Rare Hymnal by Organist at the Birmingham Oratory (1913)
      • “Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.”
      • Musical Resources • 23rd Sunday after Pentecost
      • Compline Online with Chant Notation
      • Memorial of Pope Saint John Paul II
      • Dr. Jennifer Donelson Conducting Seminarians
      • Watershed: Established Ten Years Ago Today!
      • Palestrina • Jaw-Dropping “Kyrie” based on a Hymn
      • Music and the Formation of Our Youth
      • “The Organist At Sung Mass” —Fr. Adrian Fortescue
      • Complete Palestrina Edition • Now Online!
      • The Unhealthy Liturgical Obsession with Self
      • The New Feature on the Organ of King's College
      • Wonderful Things are Happening in Detroit!
      • Choirmaster’s Life: “A Life of Sacrifice”
      • Musical Resources • 21st Sunday after Pentecost
      • Vocation Directors Immersed in Chant—Immersed in Prayer
      • I Got Caught!
      • St. Francis and Sacred Music
      • What Should A Church Look Like?
      • Cardinal Sarah’s Missing Paragraph…
      • New Collection of Propers from GIA
    • ► September (33)
      • Why Did Vatican II Happen?
      • Twenty Minutes That Changed My Life Forever
      • Where do you obtain your Psalms?
      • Turning Off the Air Conditioning
      • Propers for the Jesuit Martyrs of North America
      • Dunwoodie Sponsors New Sacred Music Conference
      • The Choir Isn’t Everything
      • “For Immediate Release” • Re: Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference in Los Angeles
      • SATB • “Come Holy Ghost, Who Ever One” — John Henry Cardinal Newman
      • Problems Encountered Teaching Rhythms
      • Catastrophic Results of USCCB “Interpretation”
      • Musical Resources • 19th Sunday after Pentecost
      • Improving the Liturgy
      • Musical Resources • 18th Sunday after Pentecost
      • The Power of Sacred Music
      • “Matri Divinæ Gratiæ” • 3-voice Motets (SAB)
      • Do You Recognize This Hymn Tune?
      • A Blemish On Hymnody Printing?
      • Greatest Church Music Book Ever Written?
      • Composition Contest
      • Chief Reasons For Mass “Facing The People”
      • Three Things that Inform the Work of Every Parish: Hospitality, Catechesis, Evangelization
      • A Serious Question About Vatican II
      • Ten Reflections on “Pride of Place”
      • Musical Resources • 17th Sunday after Pentecost
      • The Current Heresy
      • Guest Article: “Why That Hymn Doesn't Work”
      • Impressive Video — “Ad Orientem” Celebration
      • Paul McCartney Likes Choir Music
      • Musical Resources • 16th Sunday after Pentecost
      • No Greater Advent Piece Exists
      • The Power of Wordless Presence
      • The First Catholic Diocese in East Asia
    • ► August (36)
      • Give Yourself a Boost in the New Choral Year
      • Has Our Catholic Culture Been Completely Dismantled?
      • Does Our Enlightened Age Still Need “Sacred” Music?
      • Beautiful Manuscript • Priest Offering Mass
      • On the Spirit of Conservation
      • Musical Resources • 15th Sunday after Pentecost
      • The Reason for Choir — Paul Mealor
      • Communion Antiphons for Advent & Christmas • NEW • World Library Publications
      • The Eight Gregorian Psalm Tones (PDF)
      • “Simple Kyriale” for Dumb Organists Like Me!
      • I Am Moving Again!
      • Can You Hear The Difference?
      • A New Choral Year Off to the Races
      • “Ad Orientem” • Why I'm Rejoicing over Sloppy Errors in the Catholic Herald
      • Essence, Form, Experience
      • New Resource from the Archdiocese of Boston for First Communion and Confirmation
      • “Polyphony For Dummies”
      • Strive for Excellence
      • Breathtaking Images from Poland
      • Hymn for St. Thomas More & St. John Fisher
      • Catholic Bulletin Art • Installment #71
      • World Youth Day Krakow: Music Recordings
      • Musical Resources • 14th Sunday after Pentecost
      • The Difficulty of Cultivating a Prayerful Focus for Musicians
      • Major Media Outlet Re: “Ad Orientem”
      • Hymn Tunes • What's Up With Naming Them?
      • Worst Typo Of All Time?
      • Too Many Sopranos? Try This Canon!
      • Being Careful With Hymns
      • A Different Kind of World Youth Day
      • Interesting Points in this Sunday's Offertory
      • “Ad Orientem” and Granovetter’s Threshold Models of Collective Behavior
      • St. Josemaría and the Mass
      • The “Long & Short” of Latin Hymns
      • Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli in Cappa Magna
      • Does Your Bishop Enforce The GIRM?
    • ► July (35)
      • “Actuosa Participatio” and the Reception of Holy Communion
      • Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?
      • Free Recordings • British Boys' Choir
      • Musical Resources • 11th Sunday after Pentecost
      • The Musical Power of the Priest in the Ordinary Form
      • Letter To A Volunteer Choir…
      • Victoria Alleluia • Extraordinary & Ordinary Form
      • Musical Resources • 10th Sunday after Pentecost
      • Priestly Musical Formation in a Low Mass Culture
      • Saints and the “Ad Orientem” Worship
      • Summer Sacred Music Workshop • This Weekend!
      • PDF Download • St. Cecilia Hymnal (1937)
      • Ad Orientem and Sacred Music
      • “I Desire Mercy, Not Sacrifice”
      • Are the Readings at Mass Meant to Be Didactic or Doxological?
      • Showdown in Arkansas over “Ad Orientem”
      • Musical Resources • 9th Sunday after Pentecost
      • Photograph • Robert Cardinal Sarah “Ad Orientem”
      • Letter from USCCB Committee on Divine Worship on “Ad Orientem”
      • The Illusion of Privacy • Social Media Etiquette for Liturgical Musicians
      • Three False Ideas about “Ad Orientem” Celebration
      • SATB “Agnus Dei” after Fr. Gregorio Allegri (d. 1652)
      • Shocking Developments From Westminster
      • Did Fr. Lombardi Contradict Cardinal Sarah?
      • The Vatican Has Already Responded To Cardinal Nichols Regarding “Ad Orientem”
      • “Quam Singulari” • Decree on First Communion (1910)
      • Those Pesky Letters of Complaint
      • Cardinal Sarah “Reform of the Reform” (5 July 2016) • Full Address in French & English
      • Sensational Hymn for St. Joseph … with Modern Polyphony!
      • Pope Francis to Cardinal Sarah: Investigate an Official Reform of the Reform
      • Sing the Mass
      • Make A Donation Using PayPal
      • Rev’d Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1874-1923)
      • “Confiteor” Before Communion • Should It Be Done?
      • The Frontier of Liturgical Composition
    • ► June (33)
      • The Positive Impact Of Parish Events
      • Do My Eyes Deceive Me?
      • “Salve Virgo Singularis” • For Three Voices
      • Theology and Music
      • Audio Samples • Can A Volunteer Choir Sing Excellent Music At Mass?
      • Wow! Take 35% off your purchase!
      • It's not about talent
      • Los Angeles Pontifical Mass • This Coming Sunday!
      • New Organ Work • Madonna & Child
      • Colloquium 2016 • Day 4
      • Colloquium 2016 • Day 3
      • “I will fear no evils, for thou art with me.”
      • Made in China
      • Purchase Hard Copies of the Goupil Gradual
      • Colloquium 2016 • Day 2
      • First Instance of “Alius Cantus Aptus”
      • Colloquium 2016 • Day 1
      • “Vidimus Stellam Ejus In Oriente”
      • Musical Resources • 5th Sunday after Pentecost
      • Does the Mass Demand a Certain Level of Dignity?
      • A Guardian of the Sacred Tradition in the South — Part 2
      • Essential Resources • Psalm Tones for Mass Propers
      • New Gloria Mixing Plainsong w/ Polyphony
      • The Theology of the Organ
      • Congregational Singing in the Year 1903
      • Musical Resources • 4th Sunday after Pentecost
      • St. Agnes in NYC Entrusted to Opus Dei
      • Two Concerts • Two Milestones • 101-rank E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings Organ, Opus 801
      • My Recent Discovery
      • Rehearsal Videos • Masterpiece w/ Cantus Firmus
      • Jeff Ostrowski's Symposium Talk • Released!
      • Choral Repertoire
      • “Insidious Form” of Clericalism? A Jesuit Speaks Out
    • ► May (30)
      • Priests as Ordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
      • Planning a Corpus Christi Procession
      • A Model of Sacred Music at Priest's First Mass
      • A Guardian of the Sacred Tradition in the South
      • O Salutaris Hostia • Do You Like This Version?
      • Teaching the Very Young
      • Los Angeles: Less Than A Week Away!
      • Guide for Large-Scale Celebrations
      • Composing Saves My Life
      • Summer Sacred Music Workshop 2016
      • May Crowning • The Official Antiphon
      • Video • Most Pure Heart of Mary Schola Cantorum
      • The Terrifying “But” Of Vatican II
      • Blast From The Past!
      • Veni Creator Chant Plus Polyphony by Couturier
      • Musical Resources • Pentecost Sunday
      • Feast of Bl. Álvaro del Portillo
      • Rehearsal videos • “Come, Holy Ghost” (SATB)
      • How Do We Get the Boys to Sing?
      • Fox News • “Rise of the Latin Mass”
      • Musical Resources • Sunday after the Ascension (Extraordinary Form)
      • A Special “Gaudeamus” For 31 May
      • Working With People With Whom One Disagrees
      • Video • Mass during WW2
      • Does Gregorian Chant Work In English?
      • Expect The Best—And You Will Get It
      • Video • Cardinal Burke on the Traditional Latin Mass
      • What Modern Man Cannot Ever Accept: SILENCE
      • Regina Chesterton Academy
      • Musical Resources • St. Joseph the Worker (1 May)
    • ► April (43)
      • How to train your dragon and the Easter Vigil Alleluia
      • Children's Choir in a Typical Suburban Parish? Endless Possibilities!
      • Musical Works of Mercy
      • Propers for St. Joseph the Worker
      • The Devil Gets in the Details
      • Rehearsal videos • “Veni Creator Spiritus” (Fauxbourdon)
      • Instruction on Sacred Music by Bishop John Doerfler
      • Our Lady’s Royal Ancestry • Gregorian Chant
      • Musical Resources • Fourth Sunday after Easter (Extraordinary Form)
      • Dazzling Canon • “Adoremus in Aeternum”
      • Who Says Young People Can’t Sing Traditional Sacred Music?
      • Musician • Center of Attention or Servant?
      • Shocking Parallels By Guerrero
      • Les Misérables and the Year of Mercy
      • Benedictus & Hosanna • “Missa Beata Mater”
      • “Catholic Choirmaster” • Fascinating Photo Taken 29 August 1964
      • Spring Concert • Most Pure Heart of Mary Schola Cantorum
      • Position Opening • Music Director for the NY Dominican Parish
      • In Memoriam • Sister Clare Crockett
      • “No Time For Cowardice” • A Letter To Liturgy Columnists
      • Feeding Our Children Liturgical “Garbage”
      • Musical Resources • Third Sunday after Easter (Extraordinary Form)
      • Picture • Pope Pius XII in St. Peter's (Low Mass)
      • Church Madness 2016
      • World Youth Day with polyphony and chant!
      • Sacrament of Confirmation (EF) • “Fully Notated Confirmation Prayers”
      • Ven. Pope Pius XII Singing The Preface
      • More on Angelus Bells
      • I Claim You for Christ
      • “Tantum Ergo” • Eleven (11) Harmonizations
      • “Et Cum Spiritu Tuo” in the 1961 Fulton Sheen Missal
      • Free Downloads • Works by Cardinal Bartolucci (Part 2)
      • “I confess that I was a liturgical nut” says Bishop consecrated by Pope Paul VI
      • Musical and Liturgical Life at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center
      • Mass Propers • Fascinating Articles From 1924
      • We Need Assistance! Please Help Watershed Survive!
      • A Musically Model Parish
      • “Hymn To The Blessed Virgin Mary” • Caswall & Parry
      • Ward Method Studies • Space Available!
      • Musical Resources • Low Sunday (1962 Missal)
      • Which Masses Would You Choose?
      • The Chapel Royal Solemn Vespers is Available on BBC
      • O Happy Fault • Nine things that are pure privilege
    • ► March (40)
      • Mother Angelica • “60 Minutes” (1984)
      • Promoting a Good Choral Culture at Your Parish
      • Bishop Doerfler’s Stunning Church Music Letter
      • Sequence During the Octave of Easter
      • “Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above” • Nine Organ Accompaniments
      • Mother Angelica, How Bad Was It?
      • PDF Download • Monsignor Ronald A. Knox “The Trials Of A Translator” (1949)
      • True Meaning Of Easter?
      • Funeral March for Jesus
      • Musical Resources • Holy Thursday (1962 Missal)
      • Tantum Ergo by a French Composer
      • A Church Music Issue Nobody Will Touch
      • Baptisms in the Extraordinary Form
      • Footage From 1968 • Pope Paul VI Giving Out Palms
      • PDF Download • “Chants Abrégés des Graduels, des Alleluias, et des Traits”
      • As the Tension Grows
      • Holy Week — A Week of Love
      • Printable Passion Booklets (PDF)
      • Sean McDermott's “Virgo Dei Genitrix”
      • St. Paul's Choir School
      • Brand New • “Saint Paul Hymnal”
      • “Liturgy Shaming”
      • The Rite of Marriage, Second Edition
      • Can You Find The Error Here?
      • Suzanne Toolan • Missing Verse From “I Am The Bread Of Life” Hymn
      • PDF Download • Spanish Cathedral Music (1961)
      • When the Liturgy Astounds • The Fire of Divine Love
      • Has The Church Rejected Her Inheritance?
      • Yes or No? • Accompanying Chant with the Organ
      • They Lied To Me In Grad School
      • Undoing A “Wreckovation” Is Possible
      • PDF Download • “New Westminster Hymnal” (1939)
      • Parish Lenten Programs • 15 Suggestions
      • “Ave Maris Stella” • Take II
      • “To Sing With The Angels” • A History Of The Twin Cities Catholic Chorale
      • Rehearsal Videos • My Favorite Lenten Hymn
      • Video • Why is Modern Art so Bad?
      • PDF Download • “Woodward Hymnal” (1913) … Outrageously Rare!
      • | Part 1 of 3 | • “Kyrie Eleison” (SATB) within the reach of any choir!
      • Choir and Cantor?
    • ► February (41)
      • The Domestic Church and the domestic schola
      • Catholic Hymns Before Vatican II Will Shock You!
      • Musical Resources • 3rd Sunday of Lent (EF)
      • Sounds from the Spires • SiriusXM Radio • Jennifer Pascual
      • Video • The Altar Server “Must See”
      • Rehearsal Videos • A Resplendent “Agnus Dei” You've Never Heard
      • PDF Download • “Latin in the New Liturgy” (1976)
      • Video • Sacred or Secular?
      • A Roman Catholic Cleric's Noble Robes
      • Funeral Mass • Justice Antonin Scalia
      • Recordings for A New Book of Old Hymns
      • 122 Messengers of Peace • Dona Nobis Pacem
      • Are you Praying the Mass?
      • PDF • Two Nice Versions of “Attende Domine”
      • Dorothy Sayers and the Lost Tools of Learning
      • Something That Would Fix So Much … But Nobody Mentions It
      • “Credo for Two Voices” • Gustaaf Nees (d. 1965)
      • Repetition in the Roman Missal
      • Canon Van Nuffel's Setting Of Smoke Rising
      • Musical Resources • 1st Sunday of Lent (EF)
      • Save the Merit, Save the World
      • Motet • “Verbum Supernum” by Fr. Carlo Rossini
      • Minimal Standards at Weddings and Funerals
      • “Audi Benigne Conditor” • Gregorian Hymn For Lent
      • Three Common Misconceptions about Chant
      • Decapitation of an Innocent Meadowlark
      • Francisco Guerrero • “Hymn To The Sacred Trinity” (SATB with Plainsong)
      • Chorister Vocal Pedagogy
      • What Are You Doing For Lent?
      • The Phrasing of the Sanctus
      • Jesus Played Marbles
      • 2016 • Sacred Music Symposium (Last Year's)
      • Candles for Candlemas
      • The Three Pillars of a Successful Parish
      • BBC's Choral Vespers from the London Oratory
      • Interview • Brandon Harvey, Founder of a New Institute
      • Exclusive Interview • Mr. Nancho Alvarez
      • “Ad Orientem” Image You’ll Want To Download
      • PDF Download • Simple Pieces For Roman Catholic Church Choirs (345 Pages)
      • Ridiculously Awesome Sanctus You’ve Never Heard
      • EWTN Broadcast • Mass of Ordination • First Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
    • ► January (46)
      • Musical Resources • Sexagesima Sunday (EF)
      • Too Many Options
      • Make a Digital Piano Sound Like an Organ
      • The Vulnerability of Choral Singing
      • Diocese of Marquette Taking a Brave Step
      • Is the Latin Mass Dead?
      • Most Pure Heart Schola Cantorum in Rome (Part 2)
      • Not Your Grandmother’s Creed
      • Chosen Your Easter Alleluia Yet?
      • Reflections on the Change of the Mandatum Rite
      • Motet for Three Voices: “O Crux Ave”
      • Musical Resources • Septuagesima Sunday (Extraordinary Form)
      • Angelus Bells and the Raspberry Pi
      • Lent is near.
      • Free Downloads • Works by Cardinal Bartolucci (Part 1)
      • Most Pure Heart Schola Cantorum … in Rome!
      • | Part 3 of 3 | • “Kyrie Eleison” (SATB) within the reach of any choir!
      • May 2016 • Major Choral Event In Dallas!
      • Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (Extraordinary Form)
      • The Pope Who Had … A Child?
      • Sacra Liturgia UK — Registration Now Open
      • Why remember gruesome things
      • The American Boychoir Redefines the Choral Experience
      • Staggering Canonic Setting • “Gloria” from Mass III
      • Fun Video • Classical Music Mashup
      • “Savior of EWTN” According To Raymond Arroyo
      • Gregory Ceurvorst Harmonizing The Chabanel Psalms
      • Ludwig Passini: “Canons in the Church of St. Peter”
      • Whose Responsibility Is It To Establish New EF Communities?
      • VIDEO • Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen & William F. Buckley
      • Letter To The FSSP Choir In Los Angeles
      • Musical Resources • Feast of the Holy Family (Extraordinary Form)
      • Communion Antiphons for Lent • RCIA and Scripture
      • The Miraculous Rise Of The Traditional Latin Mass
      • The Theology of a C-sharp Minor Chord
      • Bishop René H. Gracida On Internet Porn
      • A Faithful Bishop
      • On Catholic Art
      • Catholic Service to be Celebrated in the Chapel Royal
      • | Part 2 of 3 | • “Kyrie Eleison” (SATB) within the reach of any choir!
      • Church Music: True Diversity Vs. False Diversity
      • Mental Prayer through Hymns
      • PDF Download • New Composition By Kevin Allen
      • Update • “Graduale Parvum” (English & Latin)
      • Unprecedented • Orthodox Rabbinic Statement on Christianity
      • Chesterton on the Value of New Beginnings
  • ► 2015 (595)
    • ► December (42)
      • Te Deum Laudámus
      • Musical Resources • Most Holy Name (Extraordinary Form)
      • Chant Workshop for Clergy
      • Another “Oops” Moment For Liturgical Press
      • Bishop Perry at Prince of Peace Catholic Church
      • Which Mass Goes With Which Season?
      • Popular Posts From 2015
      • PDF • “The Truth Of Papal Claims” (Merry del Val)
      • Hollywood: Midnight Mass By Candlelight
      • A Myth That Needs To Die
      • New Choir Stalls for the Sistine Chapel Choir
      • Christmas and the Universal Role of Music
      • Musical Resources • Christmas Midnight Mass (Extraordinary Form)
      • Video • Holy Mass in Hollywood, 1944
      • Sing Like the Angels
      • Pope Francis on Collaboration of the Lay Faithful
      • Epiphany Proclamation
      • Podcast • Advent Communion Propers on “Sounds from the Spires”
      • An Antidote For Clericalism: Sung Vespers
      • Sacred Vs. Secular • What Do You Think?
      • The “O Antiphons” Begin Tonight
      • “Veni Veni Emmanuel” • Original Setting (Two Voices)
      • Why Don’t Serious Catholics Address This?
      • Benedict XVI Institute Seeks Executive Director
      • Lighting Up Façades
      • Orient toward prayer. Orient toward gratitude.
      • Rehearsal Videos • Victoria's “Ave Maria” (SATB)
      • Videos • Popes open the Holy Door
      • Understanding the Sacred
      • Propers for Our Lady of Guadalupe (12 December)
      • Rehearsal Videos • “O Magnum Mysterium” (Victoria)
      • Not One of Aesop's Fables
      • Musical Resources • Second Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)
      • Saint Nicholas — “Identity Theft”
      • Have you heard of St Clelia?
      • A Midlife Crisis and My Funeral
      • CMAA Winter Sacred Music Workshop
      • Video • The Voice of St. John Paul the Great
      • On Stillness
      • Introit For The Immaculate Conception (8 December)
      • Sir Colin Mawby Composes Special “Ave Maria” For Kansas Choristers
      • The Most Important Thing A Choirmaster Can Do
    • ► November (33)
      • Changing The Good Friday Prayer For The Jews
      • Musical Resources • First Sunday of Advent (Extraordinary Form)
      • American Influence on the Liturgy
      • Clarity Regarding The Pius XII “Turkey” Indult
      • Our Church Music Movement: How Are We Doing?
      • An Extraordinary Event: NCYC 2015
      • St. Cecilia Academy for Pastoral Musicians
      • PDF Download • Hymnal by Fr. John Selner (1954)
      • What can Men Do Against such Reckless Hate?
      • PDF Download • “Liber Brevior” (1954)
      • Sacred Music & Babies
      • Solesmes is not infallible…
      • Should the Liturgy Be Televised?
      • Fides et Ratio
      • How a Priest Saved Thousands in WW2
      • “Liturgy Wars” and Four Universal Principles
      • Sistine Chapel Choir has made Great Improvement
      • The Sacral Language of Liturgiam Authenticam as Applied to Choral Diction
      • Stunning New Collection Of English Propers
      • Don’t Fall For It
      • The Only “Credential” That Matters
      • Liturgical Happenings at Notre Dame
      • Simple 2-Part Canon For Men & Women
      • Sermon on Poor Souls • Based on Wisdom 2:23—3:9
      • Chore wars and maintaining motivation
      • Musical Resources • 23rd Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • The People Deserve Better
      • Liturgical Press Has An “Oops” Moment
      • Active Participation in the Traditional Latin Mass
      • Trination on All Souls: My Thoughts
      • My Personal Lesson Plan for Training Probationers
      • Should Priests Trinate on All Souls’ Day?
      • Musical Resources • Feast of All Saints (November 1st)
    • ► October (48)
      • Guinea Pigs and the Old Sequence for All Souls Day
      • Text and Emotion • Our Pastoral Responsibility
      • “Te Saeculorum” • Simple, Sensational, SATB
      • It’s All About The Players
      • An American Requiem
      • Gregorian Chant for All Saints (November 1st)
      • VIDEO • Cardinal Pell On The Synod
      • PDF Download • “Story of Redemption” for Children (1952) • With Audio Recordings!
      • Catholic Artists Society 1
      • How to do Marian Hymns
      • Musical Resources • Feast of Christ the King (Extraordinary Form)
      • The Seraphim Singers • World Première of work by Adam Wood and Richard J. Clark
      • 4 Choral Combinations that would Help Develop You Music Program
      • PDF Download • “Christ The King Hymnal” (1955)
      • Watershed Turns Nine Today!
      • VIDEO • “Were The Dark Ages Really Dark?”
      • Catholic Bulletin Art • Installment #70
      • Beautiful Photo Of Blessed Pope Paul VI
      • World Meeting of Families 2015 & the Papal Visit to Philadelphia — Part 2 of 2
      • Yikes! Even The Monastery Of Solesmes
      • “Regina Caeli” Sung By Young Children
      • Musical Resources • 21st Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Watershed Needs Your Help To Continue!
      • The Church Must Be Countercultural
      • My New Assignment—Part 2
      • What? Sundays after Pentecost?
      • When Choirmasters Despair
      • Taka... What?
      • Discussion of “Inclusivity” & “Diversity” at the Synod
      • “Saving” Gregorian Chant In The Ordinary Form
      • Rediscovering “Musicam Sacram”
      • Kyrie XI • Gregorian Chant
      • World Meeting of Families 2015 & the Papal Visit to Philadelphia — Part 1 of 2
      • Musical Resources • 20th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • VIDEO • Fr. Kevin Vogel On Gregorian Chant
      • New CD by the Sistine Chapel Choir
      • The Week In Review
      • Digital vs. Pipe Organ • Who Wins?
      • Family and Work: both are full time jobs
      • Sloppy 1953 Schwann
      • The Power of Good Music
      • Something Unexpected
      • Worst Song Ever?
      • Loading Choir Binders For Sunday (4 October)
      • Believe. Connect. Disappear.
      • Is this the “Proper” solution for you?
      • Mass in the Ancient Form at a Basilica
      • Musical Resources • 19th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
    • ► September (54)
      • Solfege
      • Fr. David Friel At The Papal Masses (Part 2)
      • Papal Liturgies - Day 6 of the Papal Visit
      • PDF Download • Extremely Rare Hymnal (1952)
      • Papal Liturgies - Day 4 & 5 of the Papal Visit
      • Fr. David Friel & Pope Francis
      • Praise to the Holiest
      • Papal Liturgies - Day 3 of the Papal Visit
      • Joan Brudieu • Simple Kyrie (Revised)
      • Getting the most from your choir: Passion
      • Musical Resources • 18th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • My New Assignment—Part 1
      • Papal Liturgies - Day 2 of the Papal Visit
      • The Art of Breathing
      • Interesting Video About The Latin Mass (Massachusetts)
      • Transposed Mode • This Sunday’s Communion
      • A Serious Problem That Needs To Be Addressed
      • A Striking Approach To Performing Gregorian Chant
      • A Missal for the Ordinariate
      • “Agnus Dei” For Three Voices • Guillaume Dufay
      • How many tunes should we use?
      • Musical Resources • 17th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Communion Antiphons for Advent • World Library Publications
      • Sir David Willcocks (1919-2015)
      • Pontifical Solemn High Mass in Steubenville
      • “The songs and hymns presently in use need to be reconsidered.”
      • “Live” Recording Of Polyphonic Kyrie VIII
      • Catholic Bulletin Art • Installment #69
      • 10 Ideas for Practicing Choral Music
      • To God Who Giveth Joy To My Youth
      • Fr. Jonathan Morris, Pit Bull Attack, & More
      • Getting the most from your choir: Preparation
      • Brilliant Idea for A Parish Fundraiser
      • Coming to Church on Time
      • To What Shall We Aspire?
      • Praying for Our Dead
      • Musical Resources • 16th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • PDF Download • SAB Setting of “Jesu Rex Admirabilis”
      • “Imagination, Preparation, Passion” • Getting the most from your choir
      • Video Demonstration • “Do Choral Vowels Matter?”
      • Teaching New Singers
      • A New Edition Of The 1962 Missal?
      • Liturgy And Diversity
      • The Importance of Uniforms
      • “Wearing The Cassock” • A Bishop Weighs In
      • Mind, Senses and Recorded Music
      • Six Things Of Which We’ve Lost Sight
      • Rehearsal Videos • “Jesu Dulcis Memoria”
      • Cardinal Burke will be in Steubenville!
      • Musical Resources • 15th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Video • Ars Celebrandi 2015
      • SUPPORTING MATERIALS • Jogues Missal
      • BIG NEWS • SSPX Priests can Validly Absolve
      • The Responsorial Psalm: What You Never Knew!
    • ► August (52)
      • Adapting Chant To The Vernacular
      • Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference 2015
      • The Ordinary Form’s Incredible Freedom
      • Practising from back to front
      • Frank La Rocca • Contemporary Music for the Sacred Treasury
      • Cake or Frosting?
      • Be Amazed By This Two-Minute Clip About Cathedrals!
      • PDF Download • Rossini’s “Canticum Novum” (1935)
      • Musical Resources • 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • A Paragraph that Caught Attention
      • SATB “Alleluia” By Palestrina • Brief, Easy, & Sumptuous
      • Another Job For Your Children
      • A Most Astounding “Graduale” From 1909 … On Modern Staves!
      • Christmas Gift Idea • Unbelievable Made-By-Hand Wood Carvings!
      • Vesting Prayers • Part 8 of 9
      • Organ Accompaniment • “Christe Supreme”
      • The Weirdest Thing About Renaissance Motets
      • Sacraments and family
      • The Danger of Praise and Worship
      • One Man I Would Give My Right Arm To Meet In Person
      • Chabanel Psalms … In Dutch?
      • Musical Resources • 13th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Summer Sacred Music Workshop — Report
      • Improve Your Parish’s Liturgy … Instantaneously!
      • PDF Download • “Mount Mary Hymnal” (1937)
      • Vesting Prayers • Part 7 of 9
      • Entering the Mainstream Conversation
      • Musical Resources • 12th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Thoughts on the "Hymn" for the Year of Mercy?
      • John Scott (1956-2015)
      • Cardinal Sarah’s Powerful Letter Available In English!
      • Remarkable! • Amiens Cathedral During World War
      • Evelyn Waugh Requiem Panegyric Preached At Westminster By Fr. Caraman (21 April 1966)
      • Carlo Rossini: “Exaltate Deum Hymnal” (1941)
      • Do You Like This German Hymn Tune?
      • Vesting Prayers • Part 6 of 9
      • Three part motet for the Assumption by Ravanello
      • That's Entertainment, Folks!
      • Propers for the Assumption (15 August)
      • Pope Paul VI Celebrates Ambrosian Rite At Vatican II
      • Sacred Music as an Emotional Experience
      • Musical Resources • 11th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Help Needed From Organists Who Can Improvise!
      • Why St. Josemaría Escrivá Only Celebrated The Extraordinary Form
      • The Easiest Way To Teach Your Choir Polyphony
      • A Must Have For The Choir Director's Shelf
      • My Response To “Should Church Singers Be Paid?”
      • Assumption Mass 1
      • Maestro Colin Mawby—The Newest Blogger
      • Loading Choir Binders for 2 August 2015
      • Vesting Prayers • Part 5 of 9
      • Teaching chant to your children
    • ► July (57)
      • Personal Issues Manifested in the Mass
      • A Few More Thoughts on the Chorister Audition
      • Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen On Gregorian Chant
      • The Anglican can dress anything up?
      • Musical Resources • 10th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • “When You See Rome, You Will Lose Your Faith.”
      • A Most Devastating Change By Pope Paul VI
      • The Church of Our Savior
      • Why It’s Pointless To Argue Over Our Roman Missal Translation
      • Vesting Prayers • Part 4 of 9
      • Why it's great to be Catholic
      • Pope Pius XI and “Concelebration”
      • Review • Bread from Heaven
      • Polyphony (SATB) By Verdelot • With Optional Hymn “Christe Supreme”
      • The “Little Rock Nine” & Sacred Music
      • Musical Resources • 9th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Fr. Carlo Rossini Is Wrong About “EU”
      • Fr. Robert E. Barron To Be Made A Bishop!
      • Should Children Have To Audition?
      • Videos • Bishop-Elect Robert Barron on the Liturgy
      • Is Renaissance Music Too Expressive For Holy Mass?
      • “Sacred Vs. Secular Music” • Fr. John C. Selner
      • Vesting Prayers • Part 3 of 9
      • Summer Sacred Music Workshop 2015
      • Warm ups
      • Church Needs “Disposable Art” Created To Last “Not Centuries, But Weeks (Or Hours).”
      • Carpeting Is the Enemy of Congregational Singing
      • Is Latin Impossible For Choirs?
      • Afterthoughts on the Colloquium
      • Musical Resources • 8th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • “Asperges Me” • Gregorian Chant
      • 1951 Solemn Pontifical Field Mass • With 100-Voice “Palestrina Cathedral Choir”
      • The Day Fulton J. Sheen Made A Mistake
      • SATB “Kyrie Eleison” • Henri Durieux
      • Vesting Prayers • Part 2 of 9
      • Five ways to print the Propers
      • As church musicians, what sustains us?
      • “You Will Now Feel These Interior Sentiments…”
      • Video • “Benedict XVI Receives two Honorary Doctorates on Sacred Music”
      • Sacred Music Colloquium XXV — Update VI
      • Musical Resources • 7th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Beware Of Microphones!
      • Short, Fresh, & Beautiful • SATB “Ave Maris Stella”
      • UGLY • Just Plain, Old-Fashioned Ugly
      • The Beauty Of Ancient Catholic Manuscripts
      • A Must Have Resource for Catholic Schools
      • Vesting Prayers • Part 1 of 9
      • Clarence Thomas: “I waited 25 years to return to the Church”
      • Musical Resources • 6th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Don't compare your kids
      • Sacred Music Colloquium XXV — Update V
      • I Have No Idea How to Solve this Problem
      • Sacred Music Colloquium XXV — Update IV
      • Annibale Bugnini’s Commentary (June 1967)
      • More Than 10,000 Attend Chartres Pilgrimage
      • Sacred Music Colloquium XXV — Update III
      • Only Priests Can Save Catholic Music
    • ► June (49)
      • Sacred Music Colloquium XXV — Update II
      • Sacred Music Colloquium XXV — Update I
      • In Memoriam: Dr. Lucy E. Carroll, DMA
      • Loading Choir Binders In Los Angeles
      • Rebuild my Church
      • Why It is Truly Right and Just to Sing the Preface
      • Musical Resources • 5th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Surprised By Beauty
      • Sacred Music Colloquium XXV — Pittsburgh
      • Clearest Explanation Ever! —Bishop Gracida On Divorce & Remarriage For Catholics
      • PDF Download • “Gloria In Excelsis” With 3-Voice Polyphony By Cristóbal De Morales
      • Richard Rice • SATB Kyrie from Mass VIII
      • EWTN Classic • “Theology of Worship” with Fr. Robert Skeris (1998)
      • Is the 1998 ICEL Missal Translation Worth Another Look?
      • Musical Resources • 4th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • Wrapped in the Liber Usualis
      • Bigger Fish to Fry
      • “Battles” in the Church (Part 2 of 2)
      • SATB “Agnus Dei” by Verdelot with Rehearsal Videos
      • A Musical Diet
      • Does Having Children Preclude Service As A Catholic Musician?
      • Top Six Liturgical Quotes By Robert Cardinal Sarah
      • OFFERTORY: Chant Propers in Three Parts for Sundays & Feasts
      • Optimists & Pessimists
      • BENEDICTA: Marian Chant from Norcia ~ Number 1 on the Billboard Charts
      • Musical Resources • External Solemnity of the Sacred Heart (1962 Missal)
      • “Battles” in the Church (Part 1 of 2)
      • Video • “Three Approaches To A Catholic Hymn”
      • Solesmes Monastery & Latin Accents
      • Musical Green Eggs and Ham
      • PDF Download • “A Manual For Church Musicians” (1964) — 130 pages
      • Video • Disrespect For God’s House
      • USCCB: “Revised Grail Psalter” Will Be Revised Again
      • Message From A “Traditional” Priest
      • Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
      • On This Day . . . In 1944
      • A hymnal in e-book format
      • Dancing on the Edge with Truth and Beauty
      • Eerie Silence After Cardinal Sarah’s Testimony
      • Sacra Liturgia 2015 — Update IV
      • Papal Master of Ceremonies on receiving Communion
      • Order of Worship • “Mass VIII” — High Resolution Images
      • Sacra Liturgia 2015 — Update III
      • Finding A Liturgical Context
      • Sacra Liturgia 2015 — Update II
      • “Lauda Sion” • Rehearsal Video With Translation By Saint Robert Southwell, Jesuit Martyr
      • Sacra Liturgia 2015 — Update I
      • Easy 3 part motet for the Sacred Heart of Jesus
      • GIA Publications: “Painful Blessing Of A New Sensitivity”
    • ► May (49)
      • Sacra Liturgia USA 2015 — New York City
      • Musical Resources • Trinity Sunday (1962 Missal)
      • The Key for Singing an OF Mass for the EF Musician
      • Are We Humble Enough To Open The Door And Walk In?
      • Polyphony (3 voices) by Morales with Hymn (2 voices) for the Holy Trinity
      • Coolest Liturgical Image Of All Time?
      • Collaboration Between Artists
      • Where Have All The Organists Gone?
      • You Will Want To Print This Liturgical Article
      • The Movie “I Confess” Shows A Liturgical Sensibility
      • Flashback • Pope Benedict XVI (Pentecost 2008)
      • A Mini History of the Sequences
      • A little bit of fun
      • Resources • Pentecost Sunday (1962 Missal)
      • Veni Sancte Spiritus | Two Free Resources
      • “Veni Creator Spiritus” • With An English Translation By Fr. Adrian Fortescue
      • Is There a Best Way to Receive Communion?
      • Review • “American Catholic Hymnbook” (1992)
      • One Sure Way To Destroy Your Child's Musical Potential
      • Josef Cardinal Frings & Pope Benedict XVI
      • PDF Downloads • Vernacular Mass Settings Published During The 1960s
      • Loading Choir Binders • Take II
      • Ascension • A Gorgeous Illumination
      • Resources • Sunday after the Ascension (1962 Missal)
      • “Veni Sancte Spiritus” • Sing Directly From An Ancient Manuscript!
      • Memento Rerum Conditor
      • Do not mistake competence for conservatism.
      • Novus Ordo Can Be Done Well!
      • “Omnes Gentes Plaudite” • Sequence For Ascension
      • Will You Be A Hero?
      • Stephen Colbert: “I'm Not A Fan Of Guitar Masses”
      • The Ingredients of a Choir School (Part II)
      • Heretical Hymns & Transformation
      • Stunning Hymn With 3-Voice Polypony You Will Want To Sing For Pentecost
      • VIDEO • Watch Jeff Ostrowski Load Choir Binders
      • Credo Priests
      • Resources • 5th Sunday after Easter (1962 Missal)
      • The difference between Anything and Everything.
      • Why Should We Sing the Psalms at Mass?
      • Pastoral Plan (Part 2 of 2)
      • Choir School Ingredients
      • The Actual Vestments Of Pope Saint Pius V
      • Video • “Vidi Aquam” Organ Accompaniment By Jeff Ostrowski
      • Bishop to Restore Traditional Order of the Sacraments of Initiation
      • Taking the easy way out, relatively speaking
      • Twelve (12) PDF Guides To Pronouncing Latin
      • Resources • 4th Sunday after Easter (1962 Missal)
      • Bill Belichick and the Liturgy
      • In This Regard, The EF Cannot Compare To The OF
    • ► April (57)
      • Pastoral Plan (Part 1 of 2)
      • Liturgy Gone Wild
      • Music That Hurts
      • Liturgical Silence—But Not What You Think!
      • Rare Video • Richard Nixon Meets With Pope Paul VI
      • PDF Download • “The Parish Hymnal” (1957)
      • St. Thomas Choir School, NYC
      • PDF Download • “Hymns Of The Roman Liturgy” (Rev. Joseph Connelly, 1955)
      • Brave Schola Director Posts “Live” Recording • Part 2
      • A Criticism & Good News
      • Lest we forget
      • Polyphonic “Alleluia” for 3 voices • Morales (†1553)
      • “Choral music is not one of life’s frills.”
      • Resources • 3rd Sunday after Easter (1962 Missal)
      • Amazing Opportunity for Los Angeles Catholics
      • “Proper Of The Mass” (Ignatius Press) • Part 7 of 7
      • “Proper Of The Mass” (Ignatius Press) • Part 6 of 7
      • “Proper Of The Mass” (Ignatius Press) • Part 5 of 7
      • Pope Visits Prison: “You could not come to me, so I have come to you.”
      • “Proper Of The Mass” (Ignatius Press) • Part 4 of 7
      • The One Thing That Unites Church Musicians
      • PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for “Vita Sanctorum”
      • PDF • Organ Accompaniment to the “Vidi Aquam”
      • “Proper Of The Mass” (Ignatius Press) • Part 3 of 7
      • Reflections Upon The Death Of Francis Cardinal George This Morning At 10:45am
      • “Proper Of The Mass” (Ignatius Press) • Part 2 of 7
      • Simple Yet Beautiful Easter Piece You Might Want To Sing This Sunday
      • Resources • 2nd Sunday after Easter (1962 Missal)
      • Is This The World’s Greatest Cry Room?
      • “Proper Of The Mass” (Ignatius Press) • Part 1 of 7
      • Should Church Singers Be Paid?
      • Cardinal Dolan Vested In Ferriola?
      • Don't Tell Me What You Can Do: Show Me
      • The Madeleine Choir School
      • Nixon, Watergate, & Singing The Mass Propers
      • Sacra Liturgia USA 2015
      • Musical Resources • Low Sunday (a.k.a. “Divine Mercy Sunday” or “Quasimodo” or “White Sunday”)
      • How did your Holy Week go?
      • Let This Holy Building Shake with Joy!
      • First Look Images! • “Proper Of The Mass” By Fr. Samuel F. Weber
      • The Universal Music
      • Easter Vigil Readings With Dancer • St. Patrick Catholic Church (Seattle, Washington)
      • Fascinating Videos From 1958 • Mass Sung In English!
      • It Has Arrived! • “Proper of the Mass” (Ignatius)
      • Photographs • FSSP Holy Triduum in Los Angeles (2015)
      • Jaw-Dropping Liturgical Manuscripts (7,055 Pages)
      • Can You Love Liturgy Too Much?
      • All Nine Readings
      • PDF Download: Organ Accompaniment to “Et Valde Mane” • 1955 Easter Vigil
      • Foyle's War • Best Clips
      • Rough PDF • Rubrics & Music, Holy Saturday (1962)
      • “O Sacred Head Surrounded” | Buxtehude
      • Rubrics • Good Friday (Pius XII Holy Week Revisions)
      • Sing One Note
      • An Essential & Unique Thing For Holy Thursday
      • Musical Resources • Holy Thursday (1962)
      • Judas Iscariot & Religious Freedom
    • ► March (54)
      • What Happened To Our Catholic Artists?
      • St. Paul's Choir School, Harvard Square, Boston
      • Is This Where It All Began?
      • Essential Resources for Holy Week
      • Musical Resources • Palm Sunday (1962)
      • Palm Sunday Outline • Extraordinary Form
      • Scales and counterpoint
      • Five Things Directors and Choirs Must Remember This Week
      • “O Sacred Head Surrounded”
      • Diversity Of Thought
      • Video • Vocation Story Of Bishop Robert C. Morlino
      • Free PDF • Polyphonic Gloria With Practice Videos
      • Do You Know The Hymn Of Saint Casimir?
      • Regensburger Domspatzen
      • Adoremus & the Way Forward
      • Musical Resources • 5th Sunday of Lent “Passion”
      • Professional Recording • “Salve Festa Dies”
      • Video • “A House Divided”
      • St. Joseph, Fatherhood, and Inclusive Language
      • Bertalot's 5 Wheels (Part 2 of 2)
      • Are your Triduum booklets ready?
      • Garbage in, Garbage out
      • Video • Nuns At Work (1965)
      • Improve Your Parish Liturgy ... Instantly!
      • The Real Enemy: Mediocrity
      • Hillary Clinton’s Emails & Mass Propers
      • Most Pure Heart of Mary Schola Cantorum To Sing At Papal Mass
      • Rare Video • Karol Cardinal Wojtyła In Cappa Magna
      • The Future of the Pipe Organ
      • Musical Resources • 4th Sunday of Lent “Laetare”
      • Gems in Latin and English
      • Simply Stunning | Sacred Music of Paul Jernberg
      • Bertalot's 5 Wheels (Part 1 of 2)
      • Video • “How to Love that boring Latin Mass”
      • Pope Francis & Tomfoolery From The “LA Times”
      • Brief Recording • Newest Choir In Los Angeles
      • Six Things To Know About USCCB Hymn Approval
      • Cardinal Sarah’s Liturgical Bombshell
      • Video • “Different Types Of Catholics”
      • Most Pure Heart of Mary Schola Cantorum
      • The Problem of Beauty
      • Musical Resources • 3rd Sunday of Lent
      • A Homely Slant on Bertalot's Sight-Singing
      • Pope Francis and “recovering the allure of beauty”
      • Is your Congregation Ready?
      • Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(7 of 7)
      • PDF Download • 1895 “Liber Responsorialis” by Solesmes Abbey
      • PDF Download: “67 Hymns” Arranged & Translated by Rev. Adrian Fortescue (1913)
      • The Great Secret
      • A Flawed Translation Of Ritus Servandus?
      • Stuff Choir Directors Say
      • Coolest Picture Of All Time?
      • Basking in Beauty's Glow
      • Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(6 of 7)
    • ► February (49)
      • Solfege? There's an app for that.
      • Helping Your Deacon or Priest Learn the Exsultet
      • Video • Padre Pio Celebrates Mass (5 May 1956)
      • Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Lent
      • Screenshots Proving “Versus Populum” Was Allowed By The 1572 Missal
      • “Salve Festa Dies” • SATB Choral Piece By Canon Jules Van Nuffel (d. 1953)
      • Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(5 of 7)
      • Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(4 of 7)
      • PDF Download: Two (2) Rare Franciscan Chant Books
      • Pope Francis Condemned The Reform Of The Reform? Not Quite…
      • Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(3 of 7)
      • Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(2 of 7)
      • Musical Resources • 1st Sunday of Lent
      • Permission Needed to Replace the Propers?—(1 of 7)
      • PDF Download: 1896 “Liber Usualis” • Extremely Rare
      • Bishop Slattery: “Why Did God Make Us?”
      • A Practical Secret
      • An Educational Experience
      • Brave Schola Director Posts “Live” Recording
      • Westminster Cathedral (London, England)
      • Photograph • Pius X Consecrating French Bishops
      • “What Must Be Sung Is The Mass” • Susan Benofy
      • Bishops Care When Their Names Are “Tacitly” Used
      • Praying the Divine Office This Lent
      • Modal Responsorial Psalms & Gospel Acclamations
      • Vexilla Regis Prodeunt (Gregorian Hymn)
      • Controversy Over Female Altar Servers
      • The modern armchair chant scribes
      • Choir Rehearsal Is Prayer
      • Musical Resources • Quinquagesima Sunday
      • Sing Prayerfully
      • What If You Never Again Had To “Teach” Your Choir Notes?
      • Lenten Acclamations To Genevan Psalm Tunes
      • Teaching Polyphony To Singers Who Can't Read Music
      • The Facts About Annibale Bugnini's Death
      • Institutions Rather Than Events
      • “No Approval Needed for Substitute Songs” says USCCB • Exclusive Documentation
      • Pastoral Difficulties with Recently Ordained Priests
      • Musical Resources • Sexagesima Sunday
      • Motets and Midi practice tracks
      • World Day for Consecrated Life and Leadership from the Laity
      • Patience, Patience, Patience
      • The Greatest Enemy of Sacred Music?
      • Exclusive Interview With Dr. William Mahrt
      • Truth, Beauty, and Pop Culture, Part 1
      • Palestrina “O Crux Ave” • Practice Videos
      • Elvis Presley, Offertory Processions, & “Alius Cantus”
      • How To Properly Train Young Voices To Sing At Mass
      • Pope Francis & the Devil
    • ► January (51)
      • Lord of the World
      • Musical Resources • Septuagesima Sunday
      • Liturgy of the Word and Paraphrasing the Responsorial Psalm
      • How Important Is The Poetic Value Of A Hymn?
      • Innocuous But Uninspired Music At Mass?
      • Catholic Bulletin Art • Installment #68
      • PDF Download: Eucharistic Verset By Palestrina
      • Understanding
      • Father Richard McBrien & The Passing Of An Era
      • Bishop Conley & Advent “Ad Orientem”
      • PDF Download: Saint Rose Hymnal (1938)
      • Preparing for Candlemas
      • The Blessing of Daily Mass – Saint Mary’s Chapel, Boston College Reopens
      • Musical Resources • Third Sunday after Epiphany
      • True Meaning Of The Word “Liturgy”
      • PDF Download: “Laudate Hymnal” (1942) … An Exceptionally Rare Book!
      • Showing Off During Mass
      • PDF Download: Hymn Book By Sisters Of Notre Dame (1907)
      • Catholic Bulletin Art • Installment #67
      • Dick Morris & Gregorian Accompaniment
      • Praise of God Demands Song
      • From The 1400s • Communion Kneeling
      • Teaching your own children
      • Reviving a Music Program & Ryan Lynch on "Sounds from the Spires"
      • Musical Resources • Second Sunday after Epiphany
      • PDF Download: Standard Catholic Hymnal (1921)
      • Hypocrisy About Francis From An Unlikely Source
      • PDF Download: Notre Dame Hymn Tune Book (1905)
      • The Verge Of The Abyss
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #66
      • PDF Download: Rare Hymnal By Boston's Archbishop
      • Cristóbal de Morales Missa “Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La.”
      • What to Do with Musicam Sacram
      • We want to be fed
      • The Lowest Musical Aspiration Possible – Or the Highest?
      • Short And Simple Organ Postludes & Preludes
      • “The best I have ever seen. Anywhere. In the world. Period.” —Mr. John Sonnen
      • Musical Resources • Holy Family
      • Why Didn't Anyone Stop This?
      • The American Idolization of Liturgy
      • Was Fulton J. Sheen Ever Wrong?
      • Rare Photograph: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen With Father Joseph Ratzinger in 1965
      • Organ Processionals & Postludes: Suggestions Needed
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #65
      • L'Anima Mia Ha Sete Sung By Music School In Rome
      • Reflections On Marty Haugen's “Mass Of Creation” (Revised Version)
      • Preparing Funeral Liturgies
      • Musical Resources • Most Holy Name Of Jesus
      • Easy Organ Hymns for Catholics
      • Christmas Season and the New Year
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #64
  • ► 2014 (584)
    • ► December (53)
      • PDF Download: “Saint Mark’s Hymnal for Use in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States” (1910)
      • “A Pathetic, Unenforceable Patchwork Of Rhetoric” & The Latin Mass
      • UPDATE * Latin Mass Will Remain In Hollywood
      • Video: "Make Me To Know Your Ways, O Lord"
      • Fr. Jay Finelli Weighs In On The Jogues Missal
      • Musical Resources • Sunday Within The Octave Of Christmas
      • A Close Friend & Advisor To Hans Küng Reacts To Our Recent Posting Of A Breviary From 1967
      • A New Resolution - to read the Bible in a year
      • [español] 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
      • Scripture, Sacred Music, and the Actions of Our Lives
      • ‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #63
      • “Don't Cross Out Christ On Christmas” — Wrong!
      • Musical Resources • Christmas Midnight Mass
      • Only the Dawn
      • PDF Download: Rossini "Parochial Hymnal" (1936)
      • More On Secular Music At Mass … John Lennon?
      • Pope Paul VI • “Sacrificum Laudis” (15 Aug 1966)
      • Remembering Domenico Cardinal Bartolucci
      • PDF Download: Father Charles Dreisoerner's "Graduale Romanum" In English (202 pages)
      • Progressive Solemnity
      • Sixteen (16) Christmas Carols … In Latin!
      • I am a fraud: A Life of Service
      • Musical Resources • 4th Sunday of Advent
      • Solemn High Christmas Midnight Mass • Hollywood
      • PDF Download: Dominican Breviary From 1967
      • A Fond Farewell
      • How Well Did Your Parents Know The Mass?
      • PDF Download: Hymns of the Dominican Missal & Breviary • Fr. Aquinas Byrnes (1943)
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #62
      • “The Gloves Are Off” — Jonathan Gruber & The Traditional Mass
      • Risuoni La Mia Bocca
      • Musical Resources • 3rd Sunday of Advent
      • "The Experience After The Council Was So Strong And In Some Cases Violent…" —Cardinal Burke
      • Knitted thuribles and other toys
      • Saint Paul’s Choir School ~ Top 5 on the Billboard Charts
      • What They Didn't Tell You About Psalm Tone VIII
      • The Importance of Singing Carols
      • Review: An English Gradual (Belmont Abbey, 2013)
      • Any Hope For Modern Catholic Hymnody? Yes!
      • A Meeting With Angela Ambrogetti
      • The Polyphonic Piece Your Choir Has Been Desiring!
      • Sound the Bell of Holy Freedom
      • Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Advent
      • The Christmas Album for 2014
      • Latin Mass In Los Angeles • THIS SUNDAY!
      • Marian Meditations on RJC Cecilia Music
      • Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis
      • The Actual Authentic Writing Of Palestrina
      • Holy Days of Obligation: Immaculate Conception
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #61
      • Exclusive Interview • Msgr. Valentino Miserachs (Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome)
      • The Current Missal Specifies When To Face the Altar & When To Face The People
    • ► November (40)
      • Three Years Later
      • Tutorial For Priests: Singing The Prayers After The “Asperges Me”
      • A self-fulfilling prophecy and why we don’t sing the Creed
      • Advent Meditation
      • Musical Resources • 1st Sunday of Advent
      • VIDEO • "Why Choralife Is Special"
      • Weakest Argument Ever Made Against "Ad Orientem"
      • Looking East for Advent
      • What Will ICEL Do Next?
      • For the Carol Enthusiasts
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #60
      • The Traditional Way Of Having "Asperges Me"
      • New Video In Honor Of Saint Cecilia
      • “Ordo Missae” • In Latin & English (1957)
      • Why Are the Readings Not Sung at Mass?
      • New Propers Collection By Lawrence M. Rutherford
      • A Photograph "Progressive" Liturgists Cannot Abide
      • "As you might imagine, it was a disaster."
      • Stephanie Gray • Pro-Life Interview
      • Authentic Sacred Music Programs & King Of The Hill
      • Colloquium Friends & Chant Workshops
      • Advent Music
      • I’m not here to make you or me happy. | Music as a Virtue
      • Difference between the Two Priesthoods
      • Restoring A Sense of the Sacred to the Mass
      • Eyes on Your Own Paper
      • St. Thomas Aquinas College In California
      • "Fear Of The Dark-Skinned" — Really?
      • Sacred Architecture & the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
      • Preparing for an EF Sung Mass
      • Can’t sing? Sing the dialogues!
      • Those Selfless Ordinary Form Priests
      • How Liberalism Undermines Itself
      • Prepared to Receive: the Importance of Disposition
      • Fr. Christopher Smith Weighs In
      • The Most Disturbing Change To The 1962 Missal
      • FSSP Los Angeles • What Is The Table?
      • Announcement: Solemn High Requiem In Los Angeles On Monday
      • Wakes in Church & Funerals at the Parlor
      • All Saints celebrations
    • ► October (47)
      • All Souls — gave hope to me, too.
      • FSSP.la Polyphonic Choir
      • Music Never Lies
      • Bach Mass In B Minor • Robert Shaw, 1947
      • True Devotion to Jesus
      • Sanctus/Benedictus: Should It Be Divided At Mass?
      • Full Text: Cardinal Pell Sermon • 24 October 2014
      • Look What God Did For You!
      • Test Files
      • The Secret Way The Latin Mass Has Won
      • Only the Lover Sings
      • Letter on Sacred Music to Parishioners
      • The Use and Abuse of the "Via Media"
      • Feast of Saint John Paul II
      • The Passing Of Helen Hull Hitchcock
      • Jacqueline Kennedy & The Roman Catholic Liturgy
      • Cardinal Pell: "I've Never Seen Pope Francis Irritated!"
      • Revitalizing Our Missionary Spirit
      • The Final Message of the Synod on the Family
      • The Death of a Parish | A Promise of New Life?
      • George Cardinal Pell, The Inimitable
      • In Defense of the Organ Postlude
      • An Exciting Concert In Rome! — 19 October 2014
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #59
      • Weddings: Some Practical Advice - The End and the New Beginning
      • VIDEO • Wandering Around During The Sign Of Peace
      • VIDEO • Light And Darkness
      • "Music Of An Altogether Profane And Worldy Character Is Unworthy For Church" —Bugnini
      • VIDEO • A New Mass For A New Era
      • The Miracle of Mozart (and Friends)
      • The Society for Catholic Liturgy
      • VIDEO • I Am An Elitist
      • Pope Pius XII's First Communion Day
      • Interview From Rome • Cardinal Burke: "What Happens To The First Union?"
      • Andrew Leung | Sacred Musician
      • Pope Francis Allows A Flock Of Children To Dance Around Him
      • Aurelio Porfiri: Excerpt from "Corpus Domini" Oratorio
      • Death and Rebirth of Monastic Life
      • VIDEO • Am I A Disease?
      • 25% off all Lulu books until 15 October 2014
      • PDF Download: Extremely Rare Catholic Hymnal From London (1948)
      • The Legacy of Simon Le Moyne & the Jesuit Martyrs in Upstate New York
      • Pope Francis & Mike Rowe Are in Agreement
      • Peace and St Francis
      • Organists: Know Thy Sheep!
      • Lumen Gentium on Summorum Pontificum
      • Weddings: Some Practical Advice - Word and Vows
    • ► September (41)
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #58
      • Unforgivable Sins
      • Married Couples at the Synod
      • Choirs give hope
      • Good Cop, Bad Cop
      • Confusions about Inculturation
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #57
      • Are We Getting Dumber?
      • Cardinal Lercaro: A Key Player In Liturgical Reform
      • Photographs • Cardinal Lercaro (Consilium President)
      • Fair-Weather Friends Of Good Liturgy & Pope Francis
      • VIDEO • Cardinal Burke Thoroughly Explains Catholic Teaching On Marriage
      • WEDDING MUSIC FOR A B
      • A New Book of Old Hymns 4th edition out now!
      • Many Questions | Pope Saint John Paul II’s Letter to Artists (Part 2)
      • Have We Lost Our Sensitivity to Music?
      • Weak-Kneed Prayers or Religious Patrimony?
      • Positive Liturgical Fruits Of Vatican II: Second Part
      • Spectacular Video: Porfiri Conducts Requiem For Parents In China
      • Unchangeable Things
      • Can Church Musicians Learn From An Online Role-Playing Game?
      • A Catholic Nun Challenged Reagan As Vice-President … For The Communist Party!
      • The Meaning of Marriage 1
      • Update * Atonement Parish — San Antonio, Texas
      • PDF Download: "Pray the Mass" (1959) Booklet & Cards
      • Beauty and Liturgy | Pope Saint John Paul II’s Letter to Artists
      • Breaking News: The Communion Hymn is an Optional Add-On
      • Vatican Breaks Its Silence On Kneeling For Communion In The USA
      • A Good Reading
      • That Inscrutable Creature On The Internet
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #56
      • Fr. Alan M. Guanella Reviews The Jogues Missal
      • Have We Lost The Church Music Battle?
      • Bishop Sheen Speaks
      • Richard Terry's Hymnal in PDF and paperback
      • Leadership, Authority, and the Power of Encouragement
      • Mass Among the Poor
      • Weddings: Some Practical Advice - The End of the Beginning, Part 2
      • PDF Download: Mediator Dei Hymnal (1955)
      • When Disobedience Is Not Only Good, But Necessary!
      • Barack Obama & Catholic Sacred Music
    • ► August (52)
      • Liturgy vs. Social Justice
      • Learning Latin in the new millennium
      • Choirs & Singers With Spread Vowels — Best Example Ever!
      • Why I No Longer Compose
      • The Awesomeness of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
      • Weddings: Some Practical Advice - The Very Beginning, Part 1
      • Dan Schutte's “Missa My Little Pony” (2nd Part)
      • Tu Es Petrus
      • Pope John Paul II Wearing The Cappa Magna (As Cardinal Wojtyla)
      • NBC “Meet The Press” & Catholic Church Music
      • Photo: Church Music Association of America (1964)
      • Let's bury the term "highbrow"
      • The Art of Negotiation in Liturgy
      • Why the Mass is the Key to the New Evangelization
      • How To Debunk Four Common Liturgical Myths
      • Weddings: Some Practical Advice - Introduction
      • Music & Beauty
      • Don't Add Me, Please
      • Kirsten Powers & The Hound of Heaven
      • Breaking News! Pope Francis Refuses To Adopt "Narrative" Of Progressive Liturgists
      • Homily: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
      • Hippolytus of Rome & Eucharistic Prayer II
      • Daily martyrology
      • The Paradox of Liturgical Reform Amidst Human Suffering
      • Important Resources for Liturgical Reform (7 of 7)
      • CALLING ALL PRIESTS! —Your Parishioners Are Waiting… They're Waiting For…
      • Important Resources for Liturgical Reform (6 of 7)
      • Assumption Mass
      • The Plague
      • Important Resources for Liturgical Reform (5 of 7)
      • Aurelio Porfiri Letter In Current "Adoremus Bulletin"
      • Some Thoughts On "Englishing" Gregorian Chant
      • Important Resources for Liturgical Reform (4 of 7)
      • Mass Propers In English
      • Homily: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
      • The Most Insane Thing Heard By Anyone
      • Important Resources for Liturgical Reform (3 of 7)
      • EF Homily: 9th Sunday after Pentecost
      • Important Resources for Liturgical Reform (2 of 7)
      • Important Resources for Liturgical Reform (1 of 7)
      • St. Thomas on the “Asperges” (Sprinkling Rite)
      • Did The Ancient Mass Really Have Three Readings?
      • Forty Hours Sermon
      • Five Questions No Liturgist Can Answer
      • The Semiologist And The Unbeliever
      • Intercession by saints? Why not go directly to God?
      • Modernity Impact
      • Please Help Watershed Survive
      • The 15th Station?
      • Homily: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
      • How Dare We Complain?
      • The Necessity of Interior Prayer for Directors, Composers, and Publishers
    • ► July (70)
      • Away with the World—Let Heaven Enter
      • "Convent Mass" For Two Sopranos — A. E. Tozer (1911)
      • Difference Between “Modern” and “Dark Ages”
      • Felix Culpa
      • A Different Offering
      • Are Priests Permitted To Add More Scripture To The Ordinary Form? Yes!
      • Free PDF Download: Complete Gospel Acclamations (172 pages) • Couture & Quentin
      • Missionaries
      • Staunchly Pro-Life: Former Supermodel, Kathy Ireland
      • Facebook, Scammers, and the Economy of Words
      • Homily: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
      • The Improbable Triumph Of The Latin Mass
      • Is Recorded Music Okay for Children?
      • Five signs you might be a Hymn Geek
      • “The Celebration of the Liturgy is the most important act of evangelization.”
      • PDF Download: Mocquereau's 1903 "Liber Usualis"
      • “What Shall I Render to the Lord…”
      • Like Eve in the Garden
      • PHOTO: Cardinal Ratzinger Saying The Latin Mass
      • Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 7
      • The Supreme Court & Traditional Liturgy
      • Altar Servers Caught In The Act?
      • Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 6
      • Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 5
      • Diary of Cardinal Antonelli (1964): "How Exactly Should The Vatican II Mass Look?"
      • Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 4
      • Three Painless Ways To Begin Singing Propers … Without Losing Your Job
      • Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 3
      • Inaccurate Statements About Translations Of The Mass Propers (A Pet Peeve)
      • Fr. Enrico Zoffoli and the Passion of the Lord
      • Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 2
      • PDF Download: “Propers” by A. Edmonds Tozer and “Propers” by Father Theodore Labouré
      • Confession 2.0
      • Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 1
      • I Am Not A Contemporary
      • The Real Trouble With Missalettes
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #30
      • Benjamin Franklin Composed A String Quartet
      • Homily: 15th Monday in Ordinary Time (St. Kateri)
      • WLP Vice President Mentions The Jogues Missal (Without Realizing It)
      • Homily: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
      • The “Children’s Liturgy of the Word”
      • Dreaming in Latin
      • Unified Repertoire | Piano, Guitar, and Organ Accompaniments for the ICEL Chants
      • Introductory Rites: Madness or Preparation?
      • Sacred Music As Entertainment
      • Why Did Nobody Inform Me That Latin Was Abolished?
      • Pope Francis on Sound Doctrine, Memory, and Adoration
      • “Pope Francis Hymn Book” … (Published 2014)
      • Free PDF Download: Complete Gospel Acclamations (172 pages) • Le Moyne & Le Jeune
      • CMAA Colloquium and Hoosier Hospitality
      • Priests Embarrassed To Wear Distinctive Garb
      • Remembering Cardinal Virgilio Noè
      • A 1969 Quote Bugnini Wishes He Could Retract
      • Colloquium Roundup
      • Family Von Trapp & Celebration "Versus Populum"
      • What Should Female Lectors Wear At Mass?
      • Pope Benedict XVI Reveals Why He Issued Summorum Pontificum on 7 July 2007
      • Homily: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
      • Colloquium Update IV
      • If we took music seriously
      • Colloquium Update III
      • Should We Sing Patriotic Hymns at Mass?
      • Colloquium Update II
      • Bishop Conley Sings "Salve Regina" With A Whole Pack Of Bishops
      • Music Rules Over Us
      • Colloquium Update I
      • Why On Earth Would Anyone Do This?
      • A Name To Remember
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #55
    • ► June (51)
      • Appropriate
      • "No Propers? No High Mass!" — 1933 Article
      • Homily: Solemnity of Saints Peter & Paul
      • Strong with God's Strength
      • This wonderful Bishop's letter on the Blessed Sacrament
      • The Thoughts of His Heart
      • PDF Download: Complete Proper Of The Mass, With Organ Accompaniment • Kansas (1946)
      • On the Objectivity of the Beautiful
      • First Time Attending A Novus Ordo Mass
      • Common Responsorial Psalm Texts
      • The Downside Of Dialogue
      • Fifa World Cup
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #54
      • Bottega • Aurelio Porfiri
      • Archbishop Sample’s Letter On Sacred Music (8 of 8)
      • Francis Cardinal Arinze Speaking on the New Roman Missal
      • Archbishop Sample’s Letter On Sacred Music (7 of 8)
      • Homily: Corpus Christi (Year A)
      • Archbishop Sample's Letter On Sacred Music (6 of 8)
      • Archbishop Sample's Letter on Sacred Music (5 of 8)
      • My Funeral
      • Archbishop Sample's Letter On Sacred Music (4 of 8)
      • Sensational Review Of The Jogues Illuminated Missal By Dr. Peter Kwasniewski
      • Archbishop Sample's Letter On Sacred Music (3 of 8)
      • Responsorial Psalm: The "Gelineau Disease” ?
      • Archbishop Sample's Letter On Sacred Music (2 of 8)
      • Archbishop Sample's Letter On Sacred Music (1 of 8)
      • Gregory the Great Academy
      • Homily: Most Holy Trinity (Year A)
      • Pope Saint John Paul II on Gregorian Chant
      • Art as Affirmation and Sacrifice
      • Newly-Ordained Priest Murdered in Phoenix
      • Antiphons in the Gradual don't match the Roman Missal, 3rd edition?
      • Review • Saint Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, & Gradual
      • Kevin Allen • "Recovering the Sacred"
      • On the Issue of Participation
      • Is There Truly "Versus Populum" Celebration? Vatican Says No.
      • The Famous "Agatha Christie" Indult
      • Homily: Pentecost
      • Pentecost: Babel, Tongues, & Latin
      • Teaching kids to Pray the Mass
      • Rebellion in the Liturgy
      • What the Ordinary Form Could Be: The Vienna Oratory
      • Video • Pius XII Speaking Fantastic English To Troops Who Liberated Rome!
      • Can You Name These Five Hymns?
      • Between Ethics And Reality: The Liturgical Musician
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #53
      • Problematic Sequence Translations In Our Current Lectionary
      • Homily: Ascension
      • Liturgy & Clericalism
      • The Vatican II Hymnal • Old Website
    • ► May (54)
      • A simplified Offertory for Pentecost
      • Mass in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea
      • Artist Lecture Series at Thomas More College
      • The Danger of Being Arbitrary in the Liturgy
      • Living for Heaven
      • Simple English Choral Propers by Jon Naples
      • Laudate Dominum Communion Antiphons
      • The Truth Re: Latin And The Second Vatican Council
      • Recent Canonizations
      • An Overview of the Music Program at Our Lady of the Atonement Church & Academy (Part 2)
      • Shall The Nuns Save Us? I Think So.
      • The Mystery of Missal vs. Gradual has been solved!
      • Homily: 6th Sunday of Easter (Year A)
      • 150 Years of Sacred Music
      • Connection, empowerment and raffle tickets
      • Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II on “Sounds from the Spires” and the Youth-Based Chant Movement
      • Maurice Lavanoux • "Liturgical Arts"
      • Three Categories of Liturgical Problem
      • HOME VIDEO • Jogues Illuminated Missal
      • SAMPLE PAGES • Jogues Illuminated Missal
      • Blog Etiquette & "Liturgy Wars"
      • Pope St. John Paul II Celebrates Mass "Ad Orientem"
      • An Overview of the Music Program at Our Lady of the Atonement Church & Academy (Part 1)
      • PDF Download: Extremely Rare Book Of Propers (1962)
      • Homily: 5th Sunday of Easter (Year A)
      • Mass In Honor Of Saint Isaac Jogues
      • Collected Works of Joseph Ratzinger
      • Gregorian Chant in Star Wars
      • United in the Eucharist -- Conservative, Liberal, or Universal?
      • How To Sing The Gregorian Alleluia
      • Dogma as the Servant of Mystery
      • Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?
      • Propers and “the Menu Approach”
      • Truly Marvelous Image of Saint Isaac Jogues
      • The Importance of Words
      • When will there be a new Lectionary for Catholics in the United States?
      • Homily: 4th Sunday of Easter (Year A)
      • How I Learned What Liturgy Really Is
      • Does a Liberal Arts Education Have Any Value?
      • The Pipe Organ and Propers Flourish with Vexo and Weismann
      • An Unexplained Problem
      • Sacred Choral Works CDs Available
      • Simple English Propers: Full PDF Download
      • John Henry Newman: A Deep History & A New Communion Motet
      • Latin And Western Civilization
      • Pathetic Beauty
      • PDF Download: Ordo Lectionum Missae & Ordo Cantus Missae
      • Parish May Crownings
      • Simple English Propers Organ Accompaniments
      • Homily: 3rd Sunday of Easter (Year A)
      • The Pipe Organ in Survival Mode
      • Jogues Illuminated Missal • Responsorial Psalm Sample Video
      • A Triple Cord: Liturgy, Aquinas, and CST
      • Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Liturgical Translations
    • ► April (35)
      • OF with an EF Priest
      • Homily: 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy)
      • The Mercy of God Makes Saints
      • Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II
      • The Thoughtful Theologian reflects on the canonisations of 27 April 2014
      • PREVIEW - Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II
      • Thirteen (13) Organ Accompaniments to "Missa de Angelis" (Mass VIII)
      • “Soft Source of Calm Tranquillity”: The Quiet Mass
      • VIDEO • Explaining the St. Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, & Gradual
      • More unites us than divides us!
      • Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907): Catholic, Addict, Poet
      • Book Review: Killing Jesus
      • Christ, the Wounded Healer
      • Proclaim the Passion in a "Theatrical" Manner?
      • Sheed on the Missal of 1968
      • A Priest's Litany of Thanksgiving
      • Be Good to Your Choir
      • Live Recording — Small Choir of Ninth Grade Singers (October, 2006)
      • Free PDF Download: The Fulton J. Sheen Sunday Missal (1961)
      • Mass for Artists on May 4th in NYC
      • Who Should Proclaim the Passion?
      • Working on a Compline booklet
      • Mass of the Angels | Congregational Mass Setting in English
      • Music Beautiful by Nature
      • Singing A Capella During the Easter Triduum
      • Summer Programs at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #52
      • Preconciliar Missal Allowed Mass "Versus Populum"
      • "Crucifixion" by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
      • Are Hymns Boring?
      • Lazarus, Come Out!
      • Homily: 5th Sunday of Lent (Year A)
      • A priest who sings both energizes the liturgy and fosters interior prayer.
      • Why We Need the Greatest Art in Catholic Worship
      • Courses In The Ward Method … This Summer!
    • ► March (50)
      • What is Catholic Art?
      • Audrey Hepburn, Fulton J. Sheen, & Church Singers Who Can't Read Music
      • Saints Who Were Artists
      • Homily: 4th Sunday of Lent (Year A)
      • Learning the Latin of the Pater Noster
      • Why Do We Kneel in Church?
      • "Turn Those Altars Around!" — Cardinal Lercaro, Consilium President (1965)
      • "Confusion and Annoyance" — Pope Paul VI on the New Liturgy (1965)
      • "The Most Beautiful Thing This Side Of Heaven"
      • Jubilee Museum Sacred Art Biennial 2014
      • What did Pope John Paul II think of the Cappa Magna?
      • Homily: 3rd Sunday of Lent (Year A)
      • Secular Architecture
      • Reverent and welcoming parishes are not mutually exclusive.
      • Catholic Identity Crisis: Who Are We? What Do We Believe? How Should We Live?
      • Why Do Priests Care So Much For The Liturgy and Sacred Music?
      • "Anticipated" Mass or "Vigil" Mass on Saturday Night?
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #51
      • Finally! A Manly Saint Joseph
      • Gregorian Chant As A “Weapon” — Seriously?
      • Being Amazed
      • Homily: 2nd Sunday of Lent (Year A)
      • Hymnal of St Pius X
      • The Greatest in the Kingdom
      • The Eternal, Not the Contemporary
      • Palm Sunday Passion Booklet - Free Download
      • Sacred Music of Nicholas Wilton & Paintings of Fra Angelica (Lovely Video)
      • Painting of St. Catherine of Siena Part II
      • 1970s Theology Has Affected The Celebration Of Mass
      • “Father Bugnini has only one interest: press ahead and finish.” — Cardinal Antonelli, 1967
      • Church music need not sound “Catholic” says drafter of USCCB guidelines
      • Peter Kwasniewski: Sacred Choral Works
      • Steering Wedding Dates away from Advent & Lent
      • Homily: 1st Sunday of Lent (Year A)
      • It’s impossible to please everyone so do what is right and just.
      • Seven Theses for the Evaluation of Music
      • Let Me Lent You Some Advice
      • The Essence of Lent
      • Misereris omnium | Ash Wednesday Introit
      • Reflection on the Blessing of the Ashes
      • Dr. Scott Hahn Visits Cardinal Burke in Rome
      • How Many Syllables Does The Word "Catholic" Have?
      • Principles for Creating Chant for the Vernacular
      • Painting St. Catherine of Siena Part I
      • Should Catholics Kneel At Mass?
      • Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli Speaks About Roman Missal, Third Edition
      • The Value of Tradition
      • Peter Wagner 1903 Kyriale In Gregorian Notation
      • Homily: 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
      • Preparing for Lent
    • ► February (43)
      • Why the Church Is Dying in Latin America
      • RCIA and the Importance of Holy Week Choir Rehearsals
      • Beethoven’s "Missa Solemnis" and the Five Ways of St. Thomas
      • A Visual Chronical of Parish Life: Day 4
      • Musical Creed — Text From New Roman Missal
      • A Visual Chronicle of Parish Life: Day 3
      • Setting an Example Through Funerals
      • A Visual Chronicle of Parish Life: Day 2
      • Reform Of The Reform: A Perspective
      • A Visual Chronicle of Parish Life: Day 1
      • Is the Kyrie part of the Penitential Rite?
      • St. Therese on Beauty
      • Color by "Neum"ber
      • When in Crisis: Ideology and Diplomacy
      • Seeking Inspiration in the Renaissance
      • The Young and the Extremely Young
      • Comedian Jimmy Fallon Wanted To Be A Priest
      • Monsignor Francis P. Schmitt—“Put Out To Pastor”
      • Musing Over Mass at MIT
      • PDF Download • 1974 “Graduale Romanum”
      • 1965 Video • Dedication of an Irish Cathedral
      • Movie Review: The Monuments Men
      • Farewell to Alleluia
      • Why Can't We Use Secular Music During Mass?
      • Why Focus So Much on the Liturgy?
      • How To Hyphenate Latin Words
      • Review by Fr. Justin Nolan, FSSP
      • How to repaint a statue with professional results
      • Jungmann's Remarkable Statement About The Mass Propers In 1964
      • Celebrating Parish Weddings
      • Lulu Coupons Save You Money!
      • Browsing Illuminated Manuscripts in Switzerland
      • On Singing the Passion Gospel for Palm Sunday
      • Disparagement Is Not Helping the Cause of Liturgical Reform
      • Poverty, Self-Denial, and Peace – Part II
      • Spanish Hymnal … For Catholics!
      • 1965 Ordo Missae … In Spanish!
      • Whence Came The New Eucharistic Prayers?
      • Mp3 Audio: "Why Do I Use My Paper, Ink, And Pen"
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #50
      • The Heresy of Formlessness
      • “Polls Ye Shall Always Have With You”
      • Youth in Favor of Sacred Music
    • ► January (48)
      • Changing the Culture: Progress, Not Perfection
      • Poverty, Self-Denial, and Peace – Part I
      • Richard Sherman and Self-Confidence
      • Benedict Brought Peace To The Church With “Summorum Pontificum”
      • Do You Like This Painting or Not?
      • "Cannot" vs. "Will Not" in Sacred Music
      • Comparing Canons
      • Extending a music lesson
      • Now Online! Fr. Josef Jungmann's Study of the Roman Rite "Missarum Sollemnia"
      • The Economics of Jobs in Sacred Music
      • The Art of the Beautiful Lecture Series
      • Ratzinger: "How much filth there is in the church!"
      • Lord, Deliver Me From My Persecutors
      • Dom Joseph Gajard (1885-1972)
      • Tools for the Day
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #49
      • Twelve Films I Recommend to Catholic Artists
      • Positive Liturgical Fruits Of Vatican II: First Part
      • 1907 Biography of Giulio Bas
      • The Authentic Role of the Laity
      • Introducing polyphony in a round about way
      • Gregorian Propers at a Nuptial Mass in “Southie”?
      • Liturgical Abuse and Abuse of Minors
      • Catholic Youth Choir Releases CD, Prepares For Tour
      • Quick Takes: Saying No
      • Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt Reviews the NOH (1958)
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #48
      • Does This Cartoon Sound Rude?
      • Upcoming Opportunities for Catholic Visual Artists
      • Top Ten "Oops" Quotes On Sacred Music
      • Pope Francis Says Mass "Ad Orientem" … Again!
      • The International Institute for Culture
      • Improvising – and Praying – on the Propers
      • Is Chant Just for Old-Heads?
      • Common side effects of Crestor (AstraZeneca)
      • Byzantine Splendor and Roman Sobriety
      • Which Translations Do You Prefer? Literal Or Poetic?
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #47
      • How Artwork Should Be Integrated In Liturgical Books For The Laity
      • St. Eulalia by John William Waterhouse
      • Ministry vs. Edification
      • Initial Response To Pope Francis' Recent Actions Regarding Monsignori
      • Interleaving Latin and English on the page
      • Living with Uncertainty
      • ‘Medieval’ Liturgy and ‘Scholastic’ Theology
      • When Is The Sequence Sung? Before The Alleluia?
      • What Hill are You Willing to Die on?
      • Fruitful Virginity
  • ► 2013 (824)
    • ► December (55)
      • Aren't Altar Missals Required To Print The Latin Alongside The English?
      • Tips for Parents in Guiding Artistic Teenagers
      • Bugnini Wanted To Eliminate Ash Wednesday!
      • Singing as a Work of Mercy
      • Epiphany Proclamations
      • Why We Do What We Do
      • The Liturgical Style of Pope Francis & John 12:5
      • Once Upon a Mattress
      • The Song of the Angels
      • Light Upon the World
      • From CCW President's Desk: Merry Christmas!
      • Good King Wenceslas Looked Out When?
      • The Book of Non-Blessings
      • Live Streaming: Lessons and Carols ~ Our Lady of Atonement
      • Emotional Baggage and Changing Demographics
      • Prayer and Action
      • "Ministerial Creativity" by Bishop Donald Trautman
      • It's What We Do
      • "Beauty" by Most Rev. James D. Conley (Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska)
      • Nothing Ordinary About It: The Mass Proper as Early Music Jigsaw Puzzle
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #46
      • Reason #6634 "Sing To The Lord" Was Not Submitted To Rome For Approval
      • "The Church has been called to move on." — GIA's Worship IV Hymnal
      • Impatiently Awaiting the Publication of the English Translation of von Hildebrand's Aesthetics
      • Francis Clashes With Former Head Of Liturgical Institute
      • Tallis Scholars Live
      • Florida Priest Named Head Of USCCB Divine Worship Secretariat
      • Mode 3 Antiphon for the party season
      • “Pius X Hymnal” (1953) by Ted Marier … free online!
      • Are You a Servant Leader?
      • Backyard Studies In Proportion
      • Cardinal Burke Talks About The "Francis Effect" And Other Items
      • 30 January Wedding • Call Time = 10:00am
      • General and Particular Examen
      • Video Interview • Msgr. Georg Ratzinger About His Brother, Pope Benedict XVI
      • Would You Like Some Cheese with that Whine?
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #45
      • "A Catholic Life" reviews the Campion Hymnal
      • What Exactly Is "Uninspired" Church Music?
      • The Greatest Catholic Painter You've Never Heard Of
      • Nature's Solitary Boast
      • A recent picture of our son
      • Is It An Obligation?
      • Chris Mueller's Unique Voice in the Propers
      • "Traditional Liturgy Flourishing in the Bible Belt"
      • Recovering the Greatness of the Roman Rite
      • 1934 “Antiphonale Monasticum” (Solesmes Abbey) • Free PDF Download!
      • Text matters
      • Dom Gajard on Vernacular Adaptations & Pius XII Psalter
      • Francis on Benedict's "Enlightened Conscience"
      • The G.I.R.M. Mentions "Hymnus" Only Once …
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #44
      • Enough is Enough!
      • How "Catholic" Is Congregational Singing?
      • Chant Behind Bars
    • ► November (51)
      • Trimmings on Advent
      • Uh Oh … How do you spell "Ressurection" ?
      • A Challenge for the “Big Three” -- Is there a Market for the Propers?
      • Spiritual Reading
      • Deo Gratias
      • With Regard to the New Document by Francis: "Evangelii Gaudium"
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #43
      • Hans Memling's Masterpiece: The Last Judgment
      • A Simple Plan To Improve Music At Mass
      • A Chart That Says It All …
      • Traditional Latin Hymnal "Facts Sheet"
      • Official Lenten Acclamations In Latin & English
      • The Lord as “Dominus”
      • What passion cannot music raise and quell!
      • Saint Cecilia and Why the Word is Preeminent
      • Is the Mass “Just” the Mass?
      • Royal Stumbling Blocks
      • Rory Cooney Needs “Healing” From Pope Benedict's Liturgical Reforms
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #42
      • St. Catherine of Alexandria, November 25th
      • "Look Beyond The Bread You Eat" (Part 2)
      • "Look Beyond The Bread You Eat" (Part 1)
      • Must Art Be Permanent?
      • The Politics of Sacred Music
      • A Dream Come True: 1965 Missal Online!
      • A Sober Assessment of Liturgical Reform
      • Kevin Allen Concert — Tomorrow Night!
      • 13th Century Sacred Art Class
      • More Thoughts On The 3-Year Lectionary …
      • Gratefulness
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #41
      • Cardinals Who Don't Know Latin
      • The Archer Loves The Arrow And The Bow
      • Funerals and Last Things
      • Two Upcoming Lectures on Sacred Art
      • When Rome Gets It Wrong
      • Liturgica Website Reprints "Rituale Romanum"
      • The Fear of the Lord
      • Feast of St. Cecilia – November 22nd
      • Now Available! Online Latin Lectionary For Masses In The Ordinary Form
      • Juggling Holy Days of Obligation
      • "For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours"
      • Jesuit Martyrs of North America by John A. O'Brien
      • What's So Great About The Mass Propers?
      • Black Vestments & Wisdom From Wives
      • The Ordinariness of White
      • Peculiar Altar Decorations
      • Tonight, pray Compline for the Holy Souls
      • Pope Francis Celebrates Mass "Ad Orientem"
      • "In Medio Ecclesiae" Album Release
      • Sainthood May Sound Crazy
    • ► October (64)
      • Incarnation and Divinization
      • The Informed Aesthetic
      • Definition Of Liturgical “Piccoluomini” ?
      • National Catholic Register Mentions Watershed Hymnal
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #40
      • Fr. Jeffrey Keyes Featured In Regina Magazine
      • At Mass This Sunday …
      • REMINDER: Upcoming Holy Day of Obligation
      • What Do We Think Of Cell Phones At Mass?
      • A Culture Obsessed With Sensationalism
      • Gerard Manley Hopkins & Beauty
      • Who Likes to be “Pruned”?
      • How Bad Was It?
      • Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman
      • On Aweful Ambos and Lilliputian Lecterns
      • Details About Sung Masses In "The Old Days"
      • Organ Accompaniments to Simple Gregorian Chants
      • Precious Rehearsal Time
      • The Secret "Mora Vocis" of the Vatican Edition
      • Concerning Proofreading And Capitalization
      • Does The Vatican II Lectionary Distort Scripture?
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #39
      • Alfons Cardinal Stickler, Peritus during Vatican II
      • Bishop Carroll and Vernacular in the Liturgy c. 1787
      • Jimmy Stewart … and Church Music Regulations?
      • What to Do with the Prayer of the Faithful
      • St Teresa's Dad and Standards
      • Composing Heals a Heavy Heart
      • Why Are We Bored At Mass?
      • Patron Saint of Artists
      • The Two Churches: Which One Do You Belong To?
      • Interesting Catholic Websites
      • Six Girls In High School … Sensational New CD!
      • Celebrating the Golden Jubilee of ICEL in Rome
      • Noise Unto the Lord
      • Beautiful Vestments Vs. Ugly Vestments
      • Catholic Composer Brian J. Nelson To Appear On EWTN
      • Replacing the Entrance Chant With A Hymn Or Song?
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #38
      • Why Some Older Priests Hate Liturgy
      • True Liturgical Abuse … And Rex Harrison
      • Gregorian Chant Chironomy Video
      • Aparecida
      • Jump start your rehearsal
      • “Requiem pour une américaine à Paris” on “Sounds from the Spires”
      • Addams Family Theme Song … At Mass?
      • 1945 Vernacular Mass Card (German)
      • “Let My Prayer Rise Like Incense”
      • Ron Paul & Pope Francis
      • Bishop Dominique Rey (Fréjus-Toulon) visits Texas
      • Laws of life
      • "It wasn’t supposed to happen this way."
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #37
      • Bugnini: the word Alleluia is a “meaningless sound”
      • Pope Francis in Context
      • Pedagogy, propers and psalm tones
      • Stress, Low Pay, and ‘That Finger of Jesus’
      • The Blessing of Animals
      • Catholicism, the Persecuted Religion
      • Bishop René H. Gracida • Golden Jubilee Homily
      • Impressive New Hymnal for the Divine Office
      • A Word On The Pope's Interview …
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #36
      • Msgr. Schuler Strikes Again!
    • ► September (53)
      • Cristóbal de Morales • Agnus Dei "B"
      • Faith Of Our Fathers (Movie)
      • Holy Michael Archangel
      • Pope Francis Leads Outside of Our Comfort Zone
      • Which Way Does Your Priest Face For The Prayer After Communion?
      • More On "Mass Facing The People"
      • Subdeacon's Role In The Ordinary Form Mass
      • A Must See Video About Catholic Nuns!
      • The Grand Debate Over Music and Morals
      • The Prayers of Children
      • The Extraordinary Form Is Centered On Christ
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #35
      • The Popes And Bishop René H. Gracida
      • Don't You Hate It?
      • "And I Will Raise You Up" — Voice Of God Songs During Mass
      • Raymond Cardinal Leo Burke Interview
      • No Salvation From Decrees (3 of 3)
      • Nine Images • The Campion Missal & Hymnal
      • New Testament Hymns
      • The Pope's interview, context and Latin.
      • Fringe Fest
      • Inviolable Refuge
      • A Beautiful Quote By Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
      • The Sexual Rhythm of Rock Music (2 of 2)
      • "Adoremus In Æternum" … Heretical?
      • Sacramental Grace and Intentional Discipleship
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #34
      • No Salvation From Decrees (2 of 3)
      • Jeb Bush And The Sacred Liturgy
      • Serious about Sacred Music
      • Singing the Divine Office before and after Mass
      • It’s No Fluke
      • The Sexual Rhythm of Rock Music (1 of 2)
      • Fr. Godfrey Diekmann "Foaming At The Mouth"
      • If the Shoe Fits
      • In Paradisum | Pray for Peace
      • Sacred Music and The New Evangelization
      • Graduale Simplex, Archbishop Bugnini, And More
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #33
      • New Gregorian Chant Project Needs Your Support!
      • No Salvation From Decrees (1 of 3)
      • 1963 Video • Funeral of John F. Kennedy (Low Mass)
      • Catholic Artists Society
      • Chant antiphon for peace
      • Thank You, But Hold the Applause
      • Nourishing Our Souls on Beautiful Music: A Moral Imperative
      • Praying for Peace in Syria - Day of Prayer and Fasting
      • 1964 Letter from Romano Guardini
      • From Every Oops
      • And The Answer Is … (?)
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #32
      • “Young girls with quite non-liturgical notions”
      • Retreat with the Trappists
    • ► August (57)
      • Making time
      • "The Power of the Old Mass"
      • Startlingly Human
      • Concerning Animals With Twelve Eyes
      • On the Connection Between Good Art and Good Morals
      • "The Liturgical Hall of Shame"
      • That Satisfying Click
      • Colin Mawby & Annibale Bugnini
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #31
      • Pope Francis Goes To Confession
      • A Very Cool Thing! (3 of 3)
      • Everybody hates a hypocrite! (2 of 3)
      • Give us our words back! (1 of 3)
      • General Instruction of the Roman Missal (PDF)
      • Bishop Bans Eulogies
      • What not to do on GitHub
      • Help! What does Fr. Deryck Hanshell mean?
      • Bishop Christensen Attempts To Ban “Ad Orientem”
      • Musings of an Aristotelian Catholic
      • Pope Pius X: The Pope Who Carried His Shoes
      • First, the Priests
      • Singing Propers and Ordinary . . . at Low Mass?
      • The Gift of Music
      • Anticipation of Richard . . .
      • A hymn for St Mary of the Cross
      • Essay on Gregorian Accompaniment
      • Motecta Trium Vocum • Video
      • Contemporary Sacred Music: Does It Exist?
      • Cantiones Sacrae Simplices • Video
      • Foreword by Bishop René H. Gracida
      • Sacred Music Colloquium XX (Trailer)
      • Sacred Music Colloquium XVIII (Video Trailer)
      • Sacred Music Colloquium XXI (Trailer)
      • In This Little House of God
      • Returning Home
      • Antiphons for the Dog Days of Ordinary Time
      • Monsignor Richard J. Schuler Has Been Vindicated
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #29
      • Music for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
      • More thoughts about Communion in the hand.
      • The first ever Graduale Romanum in English?
      • Communion in the hand?
      • The Dawkins Delusion
      • The Living Parish Hymn Book
      • Reason for Encouragement
      • 1949 Mass at the ruins of the Nagasaki Cathedral
      • Pope Francis’s Counsel: Do Not Waste What God Has Given Us
      • Reading Honestly
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #28
      • First Look Images! • Campion Second Edition
      • Medieval Latin Catholics Sometimes Sang In Greek?
      • Paul VI “Disturbed And Saddened” By Purge Of Latin
      • The Little Rock Nine
      • Returning from Rio
      • What's so good about growing up?
      • Chant Belongs to the People
      • Rediscovering Sacred Music with the Youth of Today
    • ► July (66)
      • From the NPM Convention in Washington, DC
      • Pope Pius XII speaks about the Liturgy (1956)
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #27
      • How Does One Use The Ordo Cantus Missæ?
      • Sixty-Four Years In A Row? Wow!
      • Ordo Cantus Missae — English Translations
      • Temporal Parochialism
      • Comprehensive Conversation on Veils
      • Photograph of Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt
      • Requiem pour une américaine à Paris
      • "Missale Romanum Cum Lectionibus Ad Usum Fidelium"
      • Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke Interview
      • Silence (Part 3 of 3)
      • Taste Like Salt
      • "I Love Ewe"
      • Were You An Altar Boy In The 1960s?
      • A Personal Remembrance . . .
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #26
      • High School Students
      • Here I owned Thy Presence
      • “Missa de Jerry Seinfeld” and Praying as a Family
      • Never Do This. Just Say "No."
      • Should The Priest Face The People At Mass?
      • Silence (Part 2 of 3)
      • Interview about Campion Missal, 2nd Edition
      • Making Your Bed
      • The Organ Book of Adrian Fortescue
      • The Founding Of Corpus Christi Watershed
      • Pavane for a Dead Princess — Maurice Ravel
      • Something We Humans Detest: Hypocrisy!
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #25
      • A Visual Catechism
      • What's new with the age old chant?
      • Chant Is Countercultural and Revolutionary
      • Bishop Fulton Sheen & Mass in Vietnamese
      • Silence (Part 1 of 3)
      • What is epiclesis?
      • Why are the Psalms numbered differently?
      • Pope Francis Will Canonize Pope John Paul II
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #24
      • Thousands of Gospel Acclamations for Organ & Voice
      • A Tale Of Three Cities
      • Pope John XXIII To Be Canonized By Pope Francis
      • Madeleine Lipatti & The Chopin Concerto Scandal
      • Adding Joseph to the Eucharistic Prayers
      • At home it doesn't have to be perfect
      • Ascent to Freedom
      • Blessed are the Peacemakers
      • American License
      • Fortnight for Freedom -- Cardinal O’Malley's Homily
      • Coming Full Circle in the Circle City
      • Congratulations, Fr. Hubert Coeurderoy!
      • Anthrax . . . and the Mass Propers, of course!
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #23
      • What's New In The Second Edition?
      • Promotional Video for the Campion Missal
      • Preface to the Campion Missal & Hymnal
      • Foreword by Fr. John Berg, FSSP
      • Instructional Videos: How to use the Campion Missal
      • ESSAY • Criteria for Hymn Selection
      • Attic Recordings, "Rach 3," and Church Musicians
      • What people are saying about the Campion Missal
      • Miscellaneous Section (Campion Missal)
      • Organ Accompaniments for the Campion Hymnal
      • 1989 Preface to the Douay-Rheims Bible
      • 07 • Lalemant Conversations: Sequoia Sierra
    • ► June (67)
      • Basilica Music Academy
      • Of Singers and Drawers
      • Begin From the Beginning—Interesting Things Will Happen
      • Henri Potiron Organist Vesperale (PDF Download)
      • The Spirit of Solesmes
      • Gregorian Missal With The New Translation!
      • Did you know Lasso suffered from depression?
      • Video Demonstration Of Polyphony
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #22
      • The Gather Hymnal
      • Colloquium 2013
      • Two (2) Errors In Printed Chabanel Book
      • Ut Queant Laxis time soon!
      • St. Paul’s Choir School, Harvard Square | A Unique Catholic Education
      • Letter To Hans Küng . . . in 1963!
      • Children and Organ Failure
      • What Happened To Chapel Veils At Mass?
      • Gather Hymnal Vs. Gregorian Chant
      • (Live Interview) Cardinal Burke on the New Translation
      • Pope Welcomes Benedict XVI To The Vatican
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #21
      • Singing Scripture throughout Mass: Why We Must and How We Might
      • Music Delivered A Young Boy From Dispair
      • Benedict Wanted a "Poor" Church, Too
      • 1965 English Mass Demonstration "Sign Of Peace"
      • Putting Our Worst Foot Forward
      • Try Illuminare Score Editor
      • Nobody Can Answer My Question?
      • Fr. Pierre Paul And Pope Francis
      • Restoring Catholic Music in the Home
      • Stravinsky on Tradition
      • What Vatican II Said (and Didn’t Say) about the Liturgy
      • Does Your Missal Obey Pope Paul VI?
      • An FYI on EP in the OF - Part 3
      • Responsorial Psalms & Gospel Acclamations
      • Obedience to the Church
      • An 1833 English Translation of the Missal?
      • Choir Members' Behavior In The Year 1596
      • Chant Workshop At Historic Mission San Buenaventura
      • Proud Father With Son & Daughter
      • 100 Easy, Beautiful Organ Interludes (Manuals Only)
      • Entering The Danger Zone: Congregational Singing
      • Setting propers to psalm tones with gregorio
      • The Story Behind The Code
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #20
      • Watershed Customer Service
      • Msgr. Wadsworth to help found new Oratory in D.C.
      • Beautiful Art Can Still Be Found
      • True Compassion
      • GABC Transcription Tools
      • "How Do I Use Gregorio? How Do I Use GABC?"
      • Alexander K. Sample, Archbishop of Portland
      • Concerning "Finger Flapping"
      • The “Heart and Soul” of STTL: The Three Judgments: One Evaluation
      • Heart of Jesus
      • Sacred Music Conference: Marquette, Michigan
      • Splendid! A 2013 Recording By Cistercian Nuns
      • Can We Ever “Understand” the Mass?
      • An FYI on EP in the OF - Part 2
      • Fantastic News For The New Translation!
      • 06 • Lalemant Conversations: Dr. Scott Smith
      • What Is Currently Happening? Let's Be Honest.
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #19
      • Free Musical Scores For Catholic Weddings
      • Corpus Christi
      • A Most Magnificent Monogram
      • As easy as (G)ABC
    • ► May (66)
      • Decisions, Decisions…Progressive Solemnity, and Who Gets to Decide?
      • Beethoven’s "Missa Solemnis"
      • History, Padre Pio, Pius X, And More
      • Latin Mass Training Videos (FSSP/EWTN)
      • St. Edmund Jennings • Practice Videos
      • Mass of the Prophets and Martyrs • Audio Files
      • Saint Theodore • Practice Videos
      • St. Bernadette Mass Setting • Audio Files
      • St. Edmund Arrowsmith • Practice Videos
      • St. Anne Line • Practice Videos
      • Mass In Honor of St. Ralph Sherwin • Practice Videos
      • Disney's "That Darn Cat," Life Teen Masses, and More
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #18
      • Why Pope Won't Fire Marini: "Put the Treasure of Tradition to Use"
      • The English And Their Hymns
      • Read This Before You Comment
      • How To Chant The Readings At Mass
      • Failure, The Liturgy, & Today's Mr. Know-It-All
      • Sung Propers: Various Simple Settings In English
      • Sibelius 7 • Get Rid Of Multi Rests!
      • "Father, Not Everyone Can Sing"
      • Top five resources for teaching chant to children
      • In Search Of Polyphonic Recordings By Good Choirs
      • Fulton Sheen & The Holy Eucharist
      • Surprise! Musical Hierarchy in “Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship”
      • Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth On Sacrosanctum Concilium
      • Discerning Changes in the Old Missal
      • The Church Is Alive And Strong!
      • 05 • Lalemant Interviews: Fr. Guy Nicholls
      • Controversial Statements About The Mass Propers
      • An FYI on EP in the OF - Part 1
      • American Airlines & Anti-Catholic Lies
      • Poterack Vs. Tucker — Uh, Sort Of . . .
      • Renewed By the Spirit
      • Sharing sacred music online
      • What Is a “Performance” in Liturgy?
      • The Distracting Prayer of the Faithful
      • An FYI on EP in the OF - Introduction
      • 04 • Lalemant Interviews: Fr. David Friel
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #17
      • Judas Iscariot
      • Why The Vatican II Hymnal Is The Best Hymn Book Ever Of All Time!
      • New Collection Of Ancient Books About The Mass . . . Free!
      • Fr. Rumble Of "Radio Replies" Comments On Folksinging At Mass
      • Round Yon Virgin
      • Mothers as dwellings
      • Comments About The Work Of Watershed
      • Questions, Errors, and/or Problems with Watershed Website
      • English Setting of Pentecost Sequence | Free Download
      • 03 • Lalemant Interviews: Dr. Edward Mulholland
      • Why No Offertory Antiphon In Roman Missal?
      • On the Wonder and Strangeness of Sacred Music
      • Ascension
      • Not-So-Ordinary Time
      • Celibacy
      • Irrefutable Proof That Some People Are Jerks
      • An Inverted Culture
      • In This Time Above All
      • Does music keep kids quiet at Mass?
      • Josquin's Beautiful "Missa Pange Lingua" In Minnesota
      • Adversity Builds Strength
      • 02 • Lalemant Interviews: Dr. Jeremy Sienkiewicz
      • Music of High Artistic Value
      • CMAA President Has His Own "STAR" In Hollywood
      • Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Welcomed By Pope Francis
      • Live for the Moment
    • ► April (49)
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #16
      • A preview of Modal Responsorial Psalms and Gospel Acclamations: Round-note SATB Edition
      • Solesmes Salicus & Scandicus Vs. Pure Vatican Edition
      • Free Responsorial Psalm, 6th Sunday of Easter, Year C
      • Sacrificing Ourselves
      • Arundel hymns
      • So, Who Is the “Leader of Song” Anyway?
      • Divided we fall
      • Music as a Character-Forming Force
      • Catholics in the United States Can Kneel Now!
      • Following the Leader
      • Rev. Fr. Christopher Smith on the Campion Missal
      • 01 • Lalemant Interviews: Fr. Christopher Mann
      • Introducing the Lalemant Propers (391 Pages) — Free Download !
      • This Sunday's Responsorial Psalm . . . Free To All
      • "Episcopalian" Music vs. "Catholic" Music? Wrong question!
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #15
      • A Tale Of Two Monsignori: Schmitt & Vyverman
      • Faith Seeking Understanding
      • ABOUT THIS SITE: St. René Goupil Gregorian Chant
      • Do-It-Yourself Hymnal: The impossible dream
      • Hope and Prayer in this Valley of Tears
      • Luke's Second Book
      • On Correcting Deviant Liturgical Customs
      • Just Pick Up a Pencil and Do It.
      • Acts of the Apostles
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #14
      • Benedict XVI Turns 86 Years Old
      • Not a movie. This was real.
      • Fr. George Rutler Weighs In On The Campion Missal
      • Shouting Our Faith from the Rooftops
      • Maternal Heart of Mary Chapel (Sydney, Australia)
      • Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani (1890-1979)
      • Does Having Children Make Us Better at Our Jobs?
      • Why Liturgical Bad Habits Must Be Broken
      • PDF Download • Instruction on Sacred Music (“De Musica Sacra”) • Issued by Pope Pius XII in 1958
      • Participating Actively despite all of that Active Participation
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #13
      • The Latin Mass Has Come Such A Long Way!
      • Jesus Returns
      • Say the Black. Do the Red—with Love.
      • "Chronicles of Narnia" by Msgr. Richard Schuler
      • Can Theology and Liturgy Be Divorced?
      • Reflections From The Editor Of The Campion Missal & Hymnal
      • The Choir Director as Catechist
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #12
      • Thoughtful Article On Hymns By Fr. Mark Woodruff
      • Easter Monday
      • Simple English Propers (Divine Mercy Sunday)
    • ► March (220)
      • He Saw & Believed
      • The Power of Gregorian Chant
      • Which Instruments Are Allowed At Mass?
      • Suffering, Death, and Children’s Questions
      • Feeling the Absence
      • Sacred Choral Program (Living Water College)
      • The Pius X Hymnal by Dr. Theodore Marier
      • Banish All Guitars and Pianos from the Church
      • Free Communion Antiphons!
      • Cardinal Burke, Maestro Charles Cole, A Great Blog
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #11
      • Why Is This Interview Not Better Known?
      • The Cross of Christ and Liturgical Language
      • Jesuits, Juilliard, And The Latin Mass In Florida
      • The "Basically Good Person"
      • Dom Gregory Murray's People's Mass & Holy Week
      • Why We Must Never Fail To Sing Holy Music At Mass
      • Historic Meeting of . . . Two Popes? Awesome!
      • A Personal Encounter with Pope Francis
      • Interview with Pope Francis While Still A Cardinal
      • On Listening to Good Music
      • Passion Booklet "in parts" For Palm Sunday (YEAR C)
      • Good Friday Passion In Parts - Free PDF Booklet
      • Cub Scouts, Abel, and Liturgical Music
      • Free Communion Propers for the Easter Season, Year C
      • 1961 Solesmes "Graduale Romanum" Online
      • 1953 Schwann Graduale Romanum
      • 1947 Graduale (Achille P. Bragers)
      • 1951 Mechlin Graduale Romanum (incomplete)
      • 1936 Graduale (Dr. Franz Xavier Mathias)
      • 1933 Organum Comitans (Henri Potiron)
      • 1911 Pustet Graduale Romanum
      • 1928 Proprium Sanctorum (F.X. Mathias)
      • 1927 Proprium Sanctorum (Julius Bas)
      • 1909 Schwann Graduale Romanum
      • 1928 Weinmann Graduale (on modern staves)
      • 1908 Graduel Neumé by Cardine
      • 1925 Graduale (Julius Bas)
      • 1908 Graduale Romanum (Vatican Edition)
      • 1910s (?) Wagner's Proprium de Sanctis
      • 1903 (?) Mohr Manuel de Chant
      • 1903 Solesmes Manuale (Gregorian Notation)
      • 1903 Solesmes "Liber Usualis" (Mocquereau)
      • 1902 Solesmes "Manuale Missæ et Officiorum"
      • 1895 Pothier Liber Gradualis (2nd Edition)
      • 1910's Early version of Nova Organi Harmonia (NOH)
      • 1946 Organ Accompaniments for the Kyriale (Lapierre)
      • 1910 Max Springer Organum Comitans
      • 1887 Reims/Cambrai Edition of the Graduale
      • 1910 Wiltberger Brothers (Common of the Saints)
      • 1896 Pustet Graduale
      • 1884 Pustet Graduale
      • 1937 Goyatton & Lemoine-Biton Kyriale Accompaniments
      • 1900 Organum Comitans ad Graduale — F.X. Haberl & Jos. Hanisch
      • 1914 Organ Accompaniments for Benediction (Biton)
      • Psalm Tone Accompaniments (C. Warwick Jordan)
      • 1892 Schildknecht Organum Comitans
      • 1957 Lapierre Accompaniments for Holy Week
      • 1883 "Liber Gradualis" • Dom Pothier
      • Desrocquettes Accompaniments for the Psalms
      • 1883 Proprium Missarum de Tempore (3 of 3)
      • 1934 Potiron Benediction Accompaniments
      • 1876 Hermesdorff Graduale (2nd version)
      • 1930 Feast of the Sacred Heart (Organ Accompaniment)
      • 1928 Bas Vesperale Organ Accompaniment
      • 1874 Mechlin Graduale
      • 1928 Divine Office (Giulio Bas)
      • 1871 Pustet Graduale
      • 1928 Desrocquettes Psalm Accompaniments
      • Missa Pro Defunctis (J. van de Cauter)
      • 1863 Hermesdorff Graduale (1st version)
      • 1937 Organ Accompaniments for the Kyriale (Bragers)
      • 1927 Vesperae et Completorium (Giulio Bas)
      • 1883 Commune Sanctorum (2 of 3) — F.X. Haberl
      • Organum Comitans ad Vesperale (Peter Wagner)
      • 1858 LeCoffre Graduale
      • 1909 Vranken Missa Pro Defunctis
      • 1907 Vespers of B.V.M. Accompaniment
      • 1890 Organum Comitans ad Vesperale (Hanisch)
      • 1874 Die Schule des katholischen Organisten
      • 1840s (?) Gregorian Accompaniment (Félix Bélédin)
      • 1874 Proprium et Commune Sanctorum (Haberl)
      • 1905 Dr. Fr. X. Mathias Kyriale
      • 1937 Fr. Lasance Missal (PDF)
      • 1929 Kyriale Organ Accompaniment (Potiron)
      • 1923 Justine Bayard Ward Book
      • 1949 Gregorian Accompaniment Treatise (Lapierre)
      • 1921 Le plain-chant grégorien
      • 1912 Franz Nekes • Organ Accompaniment to the “Ordinarium Missæ”
      • 1857 Kyriale in Modern Notation
      • Ravanello Polyphonic Motets
      • 1949 Practical Instruction in Plainsong Accompaniment
      • 1910 Vade Mecum Paroissial (Aug Le Guennant)
      • 1892 Pustet Antiphonale
      • 1947 Treatise on Gregorian Accompaniment (Dom Gregory Murray)
      • 1910 (Anglican) Organum Comitans ad Kyriale
      • 1891 Dom Joseph Pothier Antiphonale
      • 1963 The Accompaniment of Plainsong (Fleming)
      • 1851 Hymnarium Vesperale (Lambert)
      • 1906 Julius Bas Kyriale Accompaniments
      • 1886 Vesperale Monasticum
      • 1906 Organ Accompaniments — Kyriale (Manzetti)
      • 1946 L'Accompagnement Du Chant Grégorien — Francis Canon Potier
      • 1857 Vesperale (Modern Notation)
      • Treatise on Gregorian Accompaniment (Flor Peeters)
      • 1902 Ebner Kyriale Accompaniments
      • 1937 Treatise on Gregorian Accompaniment (Marcel Dupré)
      • 1900s? Michael Horn Kyriale Accompaniments
      • 1881 Franz Witt Kyriale Accompaniments
      • 1904 Peter Wagner Kyriale
      • 1854 Musica Divina by Carl Proske
      • 1876 Franz Witt Kyriale
      • 1964 Rayburn Gregorian Chant Rhythm
      • 1818 Antiphonale (Bourguignon)
      • 1963 Chant According to the Manuscripts (Murray)
      • 1905 Solesmes Kyriale (643)
      • 1930 Nashdom Abbey Graduale (Fragment)
      • 1960 The Solesmes Method (Gajard)
      • 1934 Gregorian Accompaniment Treatise (Bragers)
      • 1952 The Rhythmic Tradition in the Manuscripts
      • 1933 Gregorian Accompaniment Treatise (Potiron)
      • 1923 Francis Burgess Chant (Fragments)
      • 1951 Gregorian Chant Analyzed & Studied (Pierik)
      • 1927 J. H. Arnold Plainsong Accompaniment
      • Modal Accompaniment of Gregorian Chant
      • 1949 History of Catholic Church Music (Fellerer)
      • 1924 Boulfard Treatise on Gregorian Accompaniment
      • 1945 The Rhythm of Plainsong (Dom Gajard)
      • 1923 Gastoué Treatise on Gregorian Accompaniment
      • 1939 Little Grammar of Gregorian Chant (Gogniat)
      • 1923 Treatise on Gregorian Accompaniment (Giulio Bas)
      • 1932 “Le nombre musical Grégorien” (Mocquereau)
      • 1917 Biton/Grosjean Gregorian Accomp. Treatise
      • 1912 Gregorian Accompaniment Treatise (Abbé F. Brun)
      • 1911 Edwin Evans Gregorian Accompaniment Treatise
      • 1957 Organ Accompaniments for the Kyriale (Polish)
      • 1910 The Art of Accompanying Plain Chant
      • 1910 Accompagnement du Chant Grégorien
      • 1903 Abbé Brune Gregorian Accompaniment Treatise
      • 1925 Manzetti Chants of Holy Week
      • 1900 (?) Lepage Gregorian Accompaniment Treatise
      • 1886 Du Chant Grégorien (Lemmens)
      • 1920 Solesmes Liber Usualis (Fragment)
      • 1856 Niedermeyer Gregorian Accomp. Treatise
      • 1909 Mechlin Graduale (Fragment)
      • 1856 Gevaert Method for Accompanying Plainchant
      • 1930 Text Book of Solesmes Gregorian Chant
      • 1924 "Liber Usualis" in Modern Notation (Solesmes)
      • 1908 Pustet Graduale (Fragment)
      • Potiron Accompaniments to the Office of the Dead
      • 1928 Hügle Catechism of Gregorian Chant
      • 1905 Solesmes Rituale (Fragment)
      • 1892 Pustet Rituale (Fragment)
      • 1925 Johner "A New School of Gregorian Chant"
      • 1914 The Teaching & Accompaniment of Plainsong
      • 1875 Hanisch Sanctorale & Witt Kyriale
      • 1913 Gastoué Treatise on Gregorian Chant
      • Sarum Tonale (English Psalm Tones with Organ)
      • 1909 The Elements of Plainsong
      • 1916 Fischer Psalmi in Notis
      • 1906 Burkard Manual of Plain Chant
      • 1914 Springer "Psalmi in Notis"
      • 1913 • Emile Dethier “Psalmi in Notis”
      • 1908 Psalmi in Notis (Solesmes)
      • Solesmes Psalmi in Notis (FRAGMENT)
      • Method of the Solesmes Plain Chant
      • 1903 Solesmes Psalmi in Notis
      • 1905 Plainchant and Solesmes (Cagin & Mocquereau)
      • 1904 Our Position (Raphael Molitor)
      • 1904 Deutsche Choral-Wiegendrucke (Molitor)
      • 1902 Choral-Reform zu Rom. (Molitor)
      • 1899 Gregorian Rhythm (excerpts)
      • 1912 Graduale in Modern Notation (F.X. Mathias)
      • 1895 Keinle Treatise on Gregorian Chant
      • 1894 Introduction aux mélodies grégoriennes
      • 1907 Missa Pro Defunctis (Modern Notation)
      • 1892 Magister Choralis (F.X. Haberl)
      • 1906 Gregorian Notes and Neums
      • 1892 Treatise on Gregorian Chant (Lhoumeau)
      • 1906 Schwann Kyriale (Modern Notation)
      • 1891 Le Rythme Du Chant Grégorien
      • 1880 Les Mélodies Grégoriennes d'après la tradition
      • Free Download • “Liber Usualis” PDF Online (Solesmes, 1961)
      • 1877 Magister Choralis (F.X. Haberl)
      • Liber Usualis With English Translations (Solesmes) • “Mass and Vespers” (Solesmes Abbey, 1957)
      • 1874 Directorium Chori
      • 1904 Solesmes Kyriale (Preface in Latin)
      • 1904 Solesmes Kyriale (Preface in English)
      • 1903 Solesmes Manuale (Modern Notation)
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #10
      • Inaugural Mass of Pope Francis
      • 1925 Commune Sanctorum (F. X. Mathias)
      • Catholic News Agency Praises Vatican II Hymnal
      • Msgr. Richard Schuler and the Piccoluomini
      • Doing Something New
      • Mourning Pope Benedict XVI and Trusting the Holy Spirit
      • Dr. Theodore Marier And Pope Francis
      • Reflections from St. Peter’s Square
      • My Reflections On The Election Of Pope Francis
      • Communion in the Hand
      • A Papal Blessing
      • How Do I Get Them to Sing? Part 2 of 2
      • Yet Another Example Added I Just Had To Share
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #09
      • News About The Papal Election
      • Be Reconciled to God
      • Getting Rid Of "Gree-vee-uhss" (Mispronunciation)
      • The Real Reason Pope Benedict Resigned . . .
      • Young Father Ratzinger Offers Mass In Bavaria
      • Vatican II and the Reform of the Mass
      • How Do I Get Them to Sing? Part 1 of 2
      • Msgr. Wadsworth Praises Corpus Christi Watershed
      • Useless To Sing "Our Hearts Are On Fire" When They Are Not?
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #08
      • An Ordinary-Form Missa Cantata (almost)
      • Flaming, Yet Unconsumed
      • Errors in the Lectionary
      • "On this day O Beautiful Mother" ... Blacklisted?
      • From Ashes to the Living Font
      • Endeavor That Playing The Organ Be Not Lascivious Or Obscene
    • ► February (36)
      • Nothing That Requires Explanation?
      • The Church Music Director: Job or Vocation?
      • The Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #07
      • A Deacon on Devotional and Liturgical Music
      • Now Available! Organ Accompaniments for Latin Mass Hymnal
      • "Spinning The Wheel" Each Week For Hymns
      • Two Lenten Passages
      • A Prayer For The Mission of CCW
      • The New Translation of the Roman Missal
      • Exodus and the Chair of Saint Peter
      • Easter Proclamation (Exsultet) - LOWER RECORDING - New Translation (Roman Missal 3rd Edition)
      • Keep Calm and Carry On
      • Are You to Wash My Feet?
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #06
      • First Impressions of Bishop Sample's Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music
      • Humility
      • A Word About Hymns . . . OK, A Few Words!
      • Famous Conductor Fired Because He Refused To Sing Hymn
      • A Proposed Lenten Fast for Musicians
      • The Devil’s Parody
      • Astounding Talk Given By Pope
      • News Items / 14 February 2013
      • Lord, Have Mercy?
      • Beautiful Savior
      • The Pope Has Prayed About This Decision For A Long Time
      • Pope Benedict XVI to Step Down Feb. 28
      • Lovely, If Unfamiliar
      • Reflections on the Liturgy by Andrew Nash
      • Mardi Gras and Burying the Alleluia
      • Possessors of a Rich Tradition
      • Every moment is a teachable moment
      • Once Again, Verifiable Proof
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #05
      • Christmas at Christ the King (late!)
      • Divine Intimacy
    • ► January (40)
      • First Look! • Campion Missal and Hymnal for the Laity
      • Conservatism and Traditionalism
      • I am not worthy
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #04
      • Confessing Our Sins
      • Tribute To Monsignor Francis P. Schmitt
      • Full and Active Preparation - ora et labora
      • Musical Harmony Softens Hard Hearts
      • A Simple SSA Offering
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #03
      • Homiletic & Pastoral Review: Article by Fr. Friel
      • The Mass
      • Babies, Toddlers, And The Sacred Liturgy
      • St. Cecilia, Pray for Us
      • In every age, the challenge is the same
      • Biography • Veronica Brandt
      • John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music
      • Biography • Dr. Alfred Calabrese
      • Biography • Richard J. Clark
      • Reflections On Playing The Piano At Church
      • The Need For Beauty In the Church
      • Aristotle A. Esguerra
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #02
      • Biography • Wilfrid Jones
      • Biography • Veronica Moreno
      • Biography • Father David M. Friel
      • Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #01
      • Gwyneth Holston
      • David J. Hughes
      • Warring Gods
      • Baptism of our son
      • Little Christmas
      • Peter Kwasniewski
      • Biography • Andrew Leung
      • Biography • Andrew R. Motyka
      • Andrea Leal • Biography
      • Extraordinary Form Hymnal
      • Biography • Christopher Mueller
      • Biography • Cynthia Ostrowski
      • Recipe for A Happy 2013
  • ► 2012 (84)
    • ► December (14)
      • Introduction To “Views From The Choir Loft”
      • Midnight Mass
      • Biography • Jeffrey M. Ostrowski
      • Reason and Mystery
      • Aurelio Porfiri
      • Biography • Dr. Lucas Tappan
      • What Jesus Looked Like
      • Latin Mass In The Pantheon (Rome)
      • The Antidote to Violence
      • How To Purchase More Than One Book On LULU
      • Advent vs. the Saints
      • The Hope of Sinners
      • He's At It Again . . . And Again.
      • The Worth of Waiting
    • ► November (17)
      • Andrew’s Orations
      • Vision of the Apocalypse
      • The Underground Church
      • Young Catholic Musicians
      • Graduale Romanum Chants And The New Roman Missal
      • Will All Men Be Saved?
      • Christus Rex Pilgrimage
      • First Century Progressives
      • Chant, Polyphony, and the New Evangelization.
      • Latin Mass at the University of Steubenville
      • Folding One's Hands At Mass
      • The Greatest Blog Entry Ever Of All Time
      • Right Priorities
      • [Book] Benedict XVI And Beauty In Sacred Music
      • Liturgy And Our Television Age
      • The Importance Of Gestures
      • Mozart’s Sacred Music
    • ► October (2)
      • My Soul Proclaims
      • The Year of Faith
    • ► September (6)
      • Faith Is Obnoxious
      • Source of Excitement
      • Ephphetha
      • “Lead, Kindly Light”
      • Arbeit Macht Frei
      • The Meaning of Marriage
    • ► August (3)
      • Eating from Above
      • The Flesh
      • A Mini-Retreat
    • ► July (5)
      • Gratitude for Gifts
      • Carmel
      • New Missal & Hymnal for the Latin Mass
      • Freedom
      • Mother of God
    • ► June (2)
      • Fatherhood
      • It’s Personal
    • ► May (5)
      • The Ascension of Our Lord
      • Holy Communion
      • Queen of May
      • Thoughts on Praise II
      • Learn A New Word, See It Within 24 Hours (5)
    • ► April (7)
      • Thoughts on Praise I
      • The Resurrected Christ
      • Learn A New Word, See It Within 24 Hours (4)
      • Spare Us, O Lord!
      • A Father Who Keeps His Promises
      • The UBI CARITAS chant for Holy Thursday
      • Hebdomas Sancta
    • ► March (9)
      • St. Joseph Triduum — Installment No. 3
      • St. Joseph Triduum — Installment No. 2
      • St. Joseph Triduum — Installment No. 1
      • Hymns: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know (2 of 2)
      • Hymns: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know (1 of 2)
      • Mass Propers: Confusion Resolved
      • The Artist
      • Women’s Liberation
      • Response to the Flood
    • ► February (7)
      • Exsultet Video Recording • Paschal Proclamation • Plus MP3 Recordings!
      • Roman Missal 3.0 — Installment No. 5
      • Roman Missal 3.0 — Installment No. 4
      • Roman Missal 3.0 — Installment No. 3
      • Roman Missal 3.0 — Installment no. 2
      • Roman Missal 3.0 — Installment no. 1
      • A Polyphonic Kyrie During Lent
    • ► January (7)
      • Free From All Anxiety
      • David
      • Samuel & Eli
      • Learn A New Word, See It Within 24 Hours (3)
      • Catholic Education & the Epiphany
      • The Hallowed Name
      • Mother Mary
  • ► 2011 (26)
    • ► December (6)
      • Favorite Scripture Passage?
      • Knowledge of God
      • Sin & Error Pining
      • Learn A New Word, See It Within 24 Hours
      • Holy and Without Blemish
      • Advent Exercise
    • ► November (6)
      • The Lectionary for Mass
      • Follow the Leper
      • Church Dedication
      • Achille P. Bragers Kyriale (HIGH VOICE)
      • Beautiful Churches?
      • Marching in A Great Multitude
    • ► October (3)
      • Fear & Trembling
      • The title you choose must not be extremely long
      • Five New Translation Videos • "Glory To God"
    • ► September (4)
      • Weddings & Funerals
      • A Reminder
      • The Triumph of the Cross
      • Growth in Holiness
    • ► August (4)
      • Masculine Spirituality
      • Peter Lives On
      • Seeking the Face of God
      • The Work of God & the Work of Man
    • ► July (1)
      • The Experience of Ordination
    • ► May (1)
      • Modern Sacred Music
    • ► April (1)
      • Proof Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt
  • ► 2010 (1)
    • ► December (1)
      • Voice Leading Matters

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* Watershed Series: “Commentary on Catholic Hymnals”
—Each contributor comments on the June 7th article by Daniel Craig, who carefully reviewed fifteen (15) traditional Catholic hymnals.

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