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- “Reverent Catholic Mass Finder” (Website)
- Powerful Images • “Father John Brébeuf”
- “Best & Worst Responses” • This Survey Was Responded To By 300+ Church Musicians
- “Offertory Verses and Why You Should Sing Them” (Includes PDF Download)
- “Colorado Sacred Music Conference” August 9-10 (2023) • Highlands Ranch, CO
- PDF Download • “Epitome Gradualis Romani” • Professionally Scanned — 1,106 pages!
- ► May (28)
- Re: Ancient Sequence (Thursday after Pentecost)
- PDF • “For General Use Until Advent”
- The Choir Journal: A Choir Director's Best Friend
- “Are Church Musicians Paid Enough?” • 5 Solutions
- Analysis • “Archaic and Quack Ideas on Chant”
- “Singing Advice” • Frank Sinatra to Ronald Reagan
- Musician, Know Thy Theology!
- Introit • (This Coming Sunday)
- “Daily, Daily, Sing to Mary” • (Hymn)
- Sacred Music • Inspiring Letter From “Jane Doe”
- Understanding “Bewitched” Can Help You Appreciate Classical Music
- Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Jeff’s Third Response to Patrick” (16 May 2023)
- Volunteer Choir Attempts “Kýrie Eléison”
- PDF Download • César Franck Book of Gregorian Chant Accompaniments (156 Pages)
- FEEDBACK • 15 May 2023
- Revealed! • Kevin Allen’s Setting of the “Confíteor Deo Omnipoténti” (SATB) for Compline
- Sacred Music Institute at Mount St. Mary’s, Cincinnati
- Terrific Pentecost Hymn You've Not Heard Before!
- PDF Download • Extremely Rare! Organ Accompaniment Book (165 pages)
- 7 Suggestions • “Winning the Sacred Music Crusade”
- Vespers Accompaniment Booklet
- Dr. Lucas Tappan • “Open Letter to Discouraged Musicians”
- Symposium Booklet (330 Pages)
- 6 May 2023 • FEEDBACK
- PDF Download • “Brief Choral Alleluia” (Suitable for the Ordinary and Extraordinary Form)
- PDF Download • “Vespers Accompaniment Booklet” (Fifth Sunday after Easter) — 20 pages
- Six (6) Pernicious Hymn Pairings
- Should Chant Be Accompanied On The Organ?
- ► April (23)
- My Student Singing Byrd Will Make You Weep!
- Conducting Tip: Use the Whole Body
- Photograph • Pope Saint Paul VI Distributes Holy Communion (Kneeling, On The Tongue)
- Introit • “Jubiláte Déo” (3rd Sunday after Easter)
- PDF Download • “English Hymns for Three Voices” (SSA), edited by Dr. Theodore Marier—182 pages
- FEEDBACK • 26 April 2023
- “1950s Catholicism” • Do We Want It Back?
- It's Coming!
- Five Ways to Celebrate the Octave of Pentecost
- PDF Download • Draft Copy — “2023 Symposium Booklet” (320 Pages)
- FEEDBACK • “Soul Was Craving”
- “I Came From Somewhere” • (So Did You!)
- “Quasi Modo” • Introit for this coming Sunday.
- Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “The Hidden Dactyl”
- “Regína Caéli Laetáre” • 18 organ accompaniments
- The Illumination of the Church at the Easter Vigil
- “Repugnant Pairing” (In My View)
- “Truly Bizarre!” • Easter Vigil on Easter Sunday?
- Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Non Praevaleat”
- Good Friday Hymn • From “Lyra Catholica”
- Passiontide Carols?
- Help! • Seeking “Machine Gun” Singing Technique
- Three (3) Cheerful Items • “Sacred Music Revolution”
- ► March (36)
- Who Should Sing the Passion? What about Tracts?
- “Seventy-Three (73) Changes” • Which Pope Pius XII Made to Holy Week
- Three (3) Tricks Every Choir Director Should Learn
- Question: “How Do You Read The Official Edition?”
- PDF Download • “Organ Accompaniment Booklet” (Passion Sunday Vespers) — 24 pages
- Vespers for Easter Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
- Hidden Gem: Ave Regina Caelorum (Steven Talley)
- Four (4) Shimmery Hymns for Lent & Passiontide
- “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 • “Graduale Romanum” Organ Accompaniments by Dr. Peter Wagner (513 pages)
- Revealed! • Ratzinger wrote to FSSP after “Traditionis Custodes”
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- “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
- ► December (37)
- ► 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”
- ► December (14)
- ► 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
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- 4 August 2020 • FEEDBACK
- Survey Results: Music at the TLM Doesn’t Matter?
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- ► 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
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- ► 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
- ► December (29)
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- ► 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)
- ► December (13)
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- ► 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
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- PDF Download • “Sanctus” (SATB) by JS Bach!
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- ► September (41)
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- ► August (52)
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- Homily: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
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- ► July (70)
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- PDF Download: Mocquereau's 1903 "Liber Usualis"
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- Colloquium Roundup
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- Pope Benedict XVI Reveals Why He Issued Summorum Pontificum on 7 July 2007
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- Bishop Conley Sings "Salve Regina" With A Whole Pack Of Bishops
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- Colloquium Update I
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- ► June (51)
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- Homily: Solemnity of Saints Peter & Paul
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- PDF Download: Complete Proper Of The Mass, With Organ Accompaniment • Kansas (1946)
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- What the Ordinary Form Could Be: The Vienna Oratory
- Video • Pius XII Speaking Fantastic English To Troops Who Liberated Rome!
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- ► May (54)
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- Homily: 6th Sunday of Easter (Year A)
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- Homily: 5th Sunday of Easter (Year A)
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- Homily: 4th Sunday of Easter (Year A)
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- Audrey Hepburn, Fulton J. Sheen, & Church Singers Who Can't Read Music
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- Homily: 4th Sunday of Lent (Year A)
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- Homily: 3rd Sunday of Lent (Year A)
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- Why Do Priests Care So Much For The Liturgy and Sacred Music?
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- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #51
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- PDF Download • 1974 “Graduale Romanum”
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- Movie Review: The Monuments Men
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- ► January (48)
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- Ratzinger: "How much filth there is in the church!"
- Lord, Deliver Me From My Persecutors
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- Twelve Films I Recommend to Catholic Artists
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- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #47
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- 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
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- Is It An Obligation?
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- Text matters
- Dom Gajard on Vernacular Adaptations & Pius XII Psalter
- Francis on Benedict's "Enlightened Conscience"
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- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #44
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- ► November (51)
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- 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
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- Saint Cecilia and Why the Word is Preeminent
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- Royal Stumbling Blocks
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- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #42
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- Must Art Be Permanent?
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- A Dream Come True: 1965 Missal Online!
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- More Thoughts On The 3-Year Lectionary …
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- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #41
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- When Rome Gets It Wrong
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- The Fear of the Lord
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- ► October (64)
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- 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 (219)
- 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)
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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