- ►2024 (348)
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- ► November (37)
- Saint John of the Cross • Arrested & Imprisoned By His Own Carmelite Brothers
- “Entrance Chant” • Immaculate Conception
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (8 December)
- How Sharp Are Your Eyes?
- Bouyer on Liturgical Reform: “More intolerant and fussy than anything we’ve ever known.”
- “Music List” • (Christ the King Sunday)
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for this Coming Sunday (Christ the King) — 34th in Ordinary Time
- “Entrance Chant” • Christ the King
- “Imagine You’re Out of Rehearsal Time but Desperately Need a Hymn for Advent…”
- “Reader Feedback” • 19 November 2024
- The Breviary in the Life of the Laity
- High Resolution Scan • “Missale Romanum” (1857)
- Principles vs Preferences
- “Music List” • (33rd Sund. Ordinary Time)
- Lectionary Errors
- PDF • SATB Enhancement (“Our Father”)
- PDF Download • “Put Out into the Deep”
- PDF Download • “Polyphonic Enhancement” for the Lord’s Prayer (Mass in English)
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for this Coming Sunday (33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time)
- “Entrance Chant” • Sunday (17 Nov. 2024)
- Internet Trolls + Cardinal Merry Del Val
- Confirmed! • Bp. Woost Elected Chairman of “Committee on Divine Divine Worship”
- “Quotation” • Pope Pius X on Plainsong
- Genitive Case
- Advent • “Introducing Ancient Sacred Works”
- Cardinal Arinze • “Recent Latin Mass Restrictions”
- Liquescent Notes in the Official Edition
- “Reader Feedback” • 9 November 2024
- Music List • (32nd Sund. Ordinary Time)
- Huge Discovery! • Rare Document Explains Why There’s a “Spoken” Version of the Propers
- “Entrance Chant” for this Coming Sunday • Jeff Attempts to Accompany Himself on the Organ
- “Entrance Chant” • Sunday (10 Nov. 2024)
- Bending Your Ear • A Sound Theology
- Re: Copyright Status of “Abbey Psalms & Canticles” (PDF Chart)
- “Free” Is Better!
- “I Bow to Rebecca Raber Who Oversees the Music in This Chapel.” —Mike Aquilina
- “All Saints” • Jeff Ostrowski Tries to Simultaneously Accompany His Voice on the Organ
- ► October (51)
- Pop Quiz • “How Well Do You Know Plainchant?”
- Final Sundays after Pentecost
- Music List • (31st Sund. Ordinary Time)
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (31st Sunday in Ordinary Time) for 3-NOV-2024
- “Entrance Chant” for Sunday (3-NOV-2024)
- Parallel Fifths In Plainsong Accompaniment?
- A Suggestion for Ordinary Form Masses
- The Truth About Chant Modality
- Bishop of Jefferson City Forbids Hymns
- *Gasp* — Other Sacred Music Websites!
- Music List • (30th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- PDF Download • “Seasonal Index” for the Brébeuf Hymnal
- New Treasures Daily?
- PDF Download • “Like Gold Dust” — Extremely Rare Book of Gregorian Chants (315 pages)
- Entrance Antiphons • “Transitioning from a Contemporary to Sacred Music Program”
- “Singing With The Girls”
- “Reader Feedback” • 22 October 2024
- In Search of the Pius XII Psalter!
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (30th Sunday in Ordinary Time) for 27-OCT-2024
- “Entrance Chant” for Sunday (27-Oct-2024)
- Music List • (29th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- Is the ‘Orans’ Position Disobedient? • Re: the Congregation’s Posture during the Lord’s Prayer
- PDF Download • “Extremely Rare Biography!” — Raphael Cardinal Merry Del Val (272 Pages)
- Released! • Stellar Hymn We Just Recorded
- “My Best Advice To You” • After 18 Years At My Catholic Parish
- Anybody Want This Prayer?
- A Story of Success!
- “This Change Blew My Mind” • Confusion: Is 9-Dec-2024 a Holy Day of Obligation?
- “Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (20-Oct-2024)
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (29th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
- When Liturgists Are Dopey
- The Best Conducting Advice
- To Persevere is Sanctity
- Music List • (28th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- “Unsolved Mysteries” • What Happened To This Institute?
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
- “Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (13-Oct-2024)
- PDF Download • Choral Extension! • (Corresponding to the “Holy, Holy, Holy” of the Missal Chants)
- Finding New Motets
- Mass • “Singing” Vs. “Reciting”
- The End Is Coming!
- Music List • (27th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- “In Feriis Per Annum" • Kýrie Eléison
- MONTH OF OCTOBER — “Reminder”
- PDF Download • “Vexilla Regis” in 3 or 4 parts, alternating chant & polyphony
- Rhyme Scheme?
- This Coming Sunday’s Resp. Psalm
- Glancing at Eurydice: Why Read Medieval Theory?
- English Plainchant Revival • “Is It Real?”
- “Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (6-Oct-2024)
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
- ► September (33)
- You Forgot About This One!
- An Anglican “Mess”
- Music List • (26th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- Most Magnificent Plainsong Kyrie?
- Communion Antiphon • “For Any Mass?”
- PDF Download • “Offertories and Communion Hymns for Unison + Organ” (Carlo Rossini, 1951)
- (In Canada) • Today is the “Feast of Saint Isaac Jogues & Companions”
- The Boys of Saint Paul’s Choir School to sing Mahler 8 with Boston Symphony Orchestra
- A Talk on the Importance of Chant
- Liturgical Tomfoolery
- “Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (29-Sep-2024)
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” in English (26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B)
- Konstantinople Kevin
- Priest Demands Musician’s Resignation • (No Reason Given)
- Chants of the Diaconate Ordination
- Music List • (25th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- Is Investment in Sacred Music Really Necessary?
- PDF Download • “Communion Antiphon” by Father Edgard de Laet — For Any Mass!
- “Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (22-Sep-2024)
- A Real Advantage!
- PDF Download • “The Saint John’s Gradual”
- Photographic proof that CCW matters!
- Music List • (24th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- “Desperate Financial Appeal” • (11 September 2024)
- Musical Setting • “Confíteor Déo Omnipoténti”
- Desperate Appeal • (11-Sep-2024)
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Plainchant in English)
- “He Wants to Share His Subject and His Background Is Impressive.”
- “A Coming Together of My Two Choral Worlds…”
- Music List • (23rd Sund. Ordinary Time)
- Communion • (23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time)
- “Spanish Entrance Hymn” • (You Might Enjoy This)
- “Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (8-Sep-2024)
- ► August (35)
- Musical Lineup • (22nd Sund. Ordinary Time)
- PDF • “Lamb of God” Harmonization
- Repository • “Spanish Order of Music” (Sainte Marie)
- Leaked Document! • Comparison Chart—New Responsorial Psalms (“Abbey Psalms & Canticles”)
- “3-Voice Arrangement” (SAB) • Psalm 26
- PDF Download • Seasonal (“Ad Libitum”) Gospel Acclamations for Sundays and Weekdays
- Meet Kevin Allen In Person!
- MONTH OF SEPTEMBER — “Reminder”
- When Teaching a Polyphony for the First Time, Use This Three-Voice Piece
- Corrinne May Conducts At “Totus Tuus”
- 1950s Seminary Film
- “Introducing Chant in Your Parish” • With Kevin Allen
- The Very Least We Can Do!
- PDF • “Organ Interludes” (Manuals Only) — 104 Pages
- Famous Italian Actor Regrets Aborting Son
- “Entrance Chant” • For Sunday (1-Sep-2024)
- “The Very Best 42 Seconds of Gregorian Chant”
- “Our Father” • (Arr. for 3 Voices)
- Must This Be Accompanied?
- Fathers Must Turn Their Hearts To Their Children
- Music List • (20th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- Music List • “Assumption” (15 August)
- “Missa de Angelis” • Gloria
- Assumption Resp. Psalm (in Spanish)
- 15 August • “Our Lady’s Assumption”
- (Chicago) • Upcoming Sacred Music Workshop!
- Music List • (19th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- MONTH OF AUGUST • “Reminder”
- “Reader Feedback” • 6 August 2024
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant in English” (19th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
- Slavonic Sub Tuum: a 3 part gem of haunting beauty for your choir
- “Reader Feedback” • 5 August 2024
- “Something Quite Odd” • Today’s Responsorial Psalm
- Music List • (18th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- PDF Download • “Sanctus” (Roman Missal, 3rd Ed.) in English, Latin, Spanish — Organ Accomp.
- ► July (35)
- “Saint Felix Creed” • Musical Setting for the Nicene Creed (Roman Missal, 3rd Edition)
- Reminder • “Lalemant Propers” (392 Pages)
- “Entrance Chant in English” • 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
- PDF Download • “O’Fallon Mass Propers” (483 Pages)
- Can You Answer These Four (4) Questions?
- Music List • (17th Sund. Ordinary Time)
- “Simplified” Accomp. (3,400 downloads)
- Spanish Psalter that's great for the Organ!
- MONTH OF JULY • “Reminder”
- Sacred Music and Suspicions of Elitism
- “Entrance Chant” • This coming Sunday!
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Years ABC)
- National Catholic Register Features Our Own!
- “Death Stops Us. It Stops Our Race.”
- 21 July 2024 • “Musical Plan” (English)
- 720,000 Views … and Counting!
- Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference 2024
- PDF Download • “Plainsong Propers” (1964) — Extremely Rare!
- PDF Download • “Discomforts Of Transition”
- “Soul of my Savior” arranged for 3 voices
- What Can You Do With Three Voices?
- Musical Plan (English) for 14 July 2024
- Introit • “15th Sunday in Ordinary Time”
- Reminder!
- Five Reflections • “The 'Church' of My Youth Was Coming to an End”
- PDF • “Gregorian Missal” (712 Pages)
- Live Recording • “Entrance Chant” (14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B)
- PDF Download • {English Mass} This Sunday
- Bidding Starts in 4 Days on these Catholic treasures!
- PDF • “14th Sunday in Ordinary Time”
- “Colorado Sacred Music Conference” (2024)
- PDF Download • How to Sing Gregorian Chant Like Dom Pothier
- PDF Download • “Entrance Chant” — 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
- PDF Download • “Funeral Music List” (17 Pages)
- We Were Where Peter Is
- ► June (11)
- Can I Just Say?
- Jeff Was Our Choir Director
- Jeff Has Left Los Angeles • “Final Communion”
- Kathleen Pluth discusses hymn writing with National Pastoral Musicians
- FREE • Sacred Music Symposium Books Available!
- Excellent Choral Sound • “How Best Obtain This?”
- Mozart at Mass in Malaysia
- “People’s Mass Book” • Omer Westendorf
- “Schmaltzy” Pipe Organ Music At Mass?
- We've Heard From Sister Anne Flanagan, FSP!
- “Lauda Sion” (Sequence) • Too Lengthy, Or Not?
- ► May (34)
- Announcement! • New Director for Saint Paul’s Choir School in Harvard Square
- What Corrinne Did For Us!
- “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name” (Simplified)
- The Church’s Oldest Latin Eucharistic Hymn
- Some Advice • “Recruiting Choir Members”
- (Sad & Scandalous) • Catholic Denied Holy Communion Because He Knelt
- 25 May 2024 • FEEDBACK
- PDF Download • “Saint Dunstan Hymnal” (158 pages)
- Take the “Hymn Quiz!”
- PDF • “Propers in figured notation”
- “Hail Redeemer, King Divine”
- Choir Members Can’t Get Enough of This Piece
- ABC’s “The View” Attacks the Traditional Latin Mass
- PDF Download • SATB “Kyrie” for Small Choirs
- When Dr. Calabrese Addressed Me Personally
- Documentation • “In the Olden Days, Was Vernacular Sung During Liturgical Services?”
- Organ Accomp. • “Ascension Hymn at Vespers”
- “For The First Time” • Our Choir Sings In Spanish!
- Hymn for the Ascension
- “Praise To The Lord” • Simple Accomp.
- “Yes or No?” • Should We Give People the Sacred Music They Ardently Crave?
- Will I Be Meeting You in Late June?
- J. R. R. Tolkien and Guéranger : Antiquarianism is Protestantism! Was Pius X an Antiquarianist?
- A Wonderful Woman Eviscerates The Argument Of An Infamous Liturgical Radical
- Don’t Share • “Cantoral del Padre Antonio Daniel”
- Time for Another RESUCITÓ, Canta Con Júbilo
- Es tiempo para otro RESUCITÓ, Canta Con Júbilo
- MONTH OF MAY • “Reminder”
- A Couple of Recent Podcast Appearances
- “The English Mozart” • Who Was That?
- Anglican Ordinariate: “A Hymn For Saint Joseph”
- PDF Download • “Ad Regias” Hymn
- Singing Bach At Mass? • “Yes! Yes! Yes!”
- A Note to Piano Teachers of Beginning Students
- ► April (29)
- PDF Download • Simplified Accompaniment for the famous Hymn: “Praise To The Lord”
- “Reader Feedback” • 29 April 2024
- Organ Accompaniment Booklet (20 pages)
- Random Psalm Tone! • (1962 Weddings)
- Update (25 April) • “Forthcoming Spanish Hymnal”
- Three Easter Hymns Sung Three Different Ways!
- The Catholic Academy of Sacred Music (Kansas)
- Fundraiser Update From CCW President
- ¡Anuncio! • “Nuevo Himnario en Español”
- Near “Occasions” of Sin, Forgiveness, Psalms, Hymns, and the Artistic Temperament
- Dr. Hamilton • “Totally Random (But Hopefully Not Useless) Thoughts About Choirs”
- PDF Download • “Wedding Sheet” (Showing Prices)
- Can Your Choir Members Do This?
- Announcement! • “New Spanish Hymnal”
- PDF Download • Spanish Responsorial Psalm — “17th Sunday in Ordinary Time” (Year B)
- PDF Download • “Freiburg Cathedral Hymnal” (Organ Accompaniment) — 308 Pages!
- Dr. Chapp Interviews Father Uwe Michael Lang
- “Banish Wrong Notes!” • Hymns Simplified
- PDF Download • Responsorial Psalm for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)
- Jeff Writes A Song About Dr. Weaver And Himself
- Summer Ward Method Courses • CUA 2024
- Exiguous Performing Forces?
- PDF Download • “Spanish Responsorial Psalm” (19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B)
- Confusion About This Responsorial Psalm
- Jeff Ostrowski To Leave Los Angeles!
- “Jesus Christ is Ris’n Today” (Simplified)
- Aftermath: Never take Holy Week for granted.
- “Response to Dr. Weaver” • 2 April 2024
- PDF Download • “Jeff’s Most Popular Choral Arrangement For Easter” (By Far)
- ► March (32)
- “Strangest Of All…” • (Fortescue)
- “Saint Felix Creed” • Musical Setting for the Nicene Creed (Roman Missal, 3rd Edition)
- Good Friday’s Dazzling (and Ancient) Hymn
- “Stabat Mater Dolorosa” • Four (4) Choral Settings
- “Spotted in the Wild” • (CCWatershed Members)
- Clarence Thomas Speaks About The Eucharist
- William Byrd • “Mass for Five Voices”
- PDF Download • “Holy Week Music Schedule” • Saint Mary’s in Norwalk, Connecticut
- Book Review: Good Music, Sacred Music, and Silence
- “Victimæ Paschali Laudes” • Thirty-One (31) Different Versions — Including Organ Accompaniments
- “Reprehensible Chrism Mass” • (Do Not Click)
- Church Music • “The Female Voice”
- “Simplified” Accomp. (1,700 downloads)
- Response to Jeff: Rhythmic Signs Again
- Jeff Ostrowski Attempts to Sing the Easter Introit
- Dr. Alfred Calabrese Conducts In Boston Cathedral
- “Lenten Polyphony for Two Voices”
- PDF Download • Lenten Hymn + SATB Refrain
- “Response to Dr. Weaver” • 11 March 2024
- “Church Music Job” • Salary Between $50k - $70k
- The Day My Life Changed Forever
- Introit • “Laetare Jerusalem” (4th Sunday of Lent)
- Ronald Reagan: “My Greatest Dread”
- Paul Inwood: It’s a “Miracle” (his word) the Traditional Latin Mass Still Exists
- Saint Paul’s Choir School • “My Reflections”
- Re: “Sacred Music Symposium” (2024)
- (5 March 2024) • Interview with Diana Corliss
- PDF Downloads • “Contemporary Sacred Music”
- “The Christian Can Only Be an Optimist!”
- “The Most Captivating Chorale” • (J. S. Bach)
- “Simplified” Keyboard Accompaniment
- “Stabat Mater” • Jeff Attempts to Sing All the Voices
- ► February (20)
- Relics of Father Brébeuf Touring the United States!
- “Palestrina500” • Sacred Heart Parish (Michigan)
- PDF Download • “Two-Voice Polyphony For Lent”
- Choir Doesn't Sound "Musical" Enough? Here's What May Be MiSSSing
- PDF Download • “For the Season of Lent” (SATB)
- Offered in a Spirit of Dialogue
- Josquin Des Prez Was A Vandal • (Not Kidding)
- Polyphony For Three Voices!
- PDF Download • “Jesuit Martyrs of North America” (Stained Glass Window) — High Resolution
- “Ite, Missa Est” • What Does That Actually Mean?
- PDF Download • “Chant Chart”
- Must We “Love” All Gregorian Chant?
- Father Robbie Low: “The State of Catholic Music”
- “Somber Song!” • Sexagesima Sunday
- “Reader Feedback” • 6 February 2024
- “Mass in the Vernacular?” • Seven (7) Considerations
- What is the Place of the Horizontal Episema in Dom Mocquereau's Theory?
- Do You Like Organ Accompaniment for Hymns?
- “When Does Christmas End?” • (Correct Answer)
- Abbat Bourigaud Challenges Dr. Charles Weaver!
- ► January (27)
- PDF Download • “Pew Edition” — Monsignor Martin B. Hellriegel’s Hymnal (149 Pages)
- “Polyphonic Sanctus” by J.S. Bach • Jeff Attempts All Voices (Even the Girls’ Vocals)
- PDF Score • “Mass Setting I Wrote For Corrinne”
- “Saint Mark” • Hymn Tune
- Eucharistic Hymn With Gorgeous Tenor Line
- Do not read this!
- “Seeking Employment” • Please help!
- Response to Mike’s Letter • “Six Concrete Examples”
- A Message From Mr. Roderick Royce!
- Gregorian Chant … with a drone?
- Abbat Pothier on Gregorian Chant
- PDF Download • “Credo III + Polyphonic Extension”
- Which Hymns Are Appropriate After Christmas?
- Guest Article by Dr. Kurt Poterack
- Organ Accompaniment Booklet (25 pages)
- “O Magnum Mysterium” • Do You Sing This?
- Know your hymns? How Well?
- Released • Jeff Ostrowski’s Seminar: “Secrets of the Conscientious Choirmaster” (9+ hours)
- PDF Download • Msgr. Hellriegel’s “Hand-Written” Hymnal (Organ Accompaniment) — 102 pages
- Organ? Or SATB unaccompanied?
- Simple “Salve Regina” • Its Origins
- “I’ll Keep Your Secret, Choirmasters!” • (Tell Jeff)
- Mueller’s Artistic Credo • “Same But Different”
- Do You Recognize This “Christmas” Tune?
- “Jesu Redemptor Omnium” • Translated into English
- Encourage the Clergy to Sing
- Pipeline to Heaven
- ►2023 (383)
- ► December (28)
- PDF • January 1st (Organ Accomp. Booklet)
- Christmas • “Approached By A Famous Musicologist”
- Musical Resources • “The Season of Septuagesima”
- Jeff Ostrowski Attempts To Sing “Corde Natus”
- “Corde Natus Ex Parentis” (SATB)
- “Not Schmaltzy” • An Ancient Christmas Hymn
- “My Favorite Christmas Song” • Played by Dr. Carbonell and Fr. Justin Ward (Live Recording)
- How To Contact Corpus Christi Watershed
- “Liber Usualis” • Jeff’s Proposed Modifications
- Our Most Popular Download Ever? • (Advent Hymn)
- Mandatory Advent Piece
- “Silent Night” • Easy Organ Arrangement
- Do You Recognize This Melody?
- Recording Release! • Marenzio’s “Salve Regina”
- PDF Download • “Münster Hymnal” (Harmony Edition) — 123 pages!
- “PPG” • Plainsong Progress by Girls
- New Hymn By Father Dylan Schrader
- What Ever Happened to Advent?
- An Important Anniversary
- (Advent, 2nd Sunday) • Introit “Pópulus Sion” Sung According to the Official Rhythm
- Schola Director Posts 'Live' Recording
- PDF Download • “Lo! He comes with clouds descending” (Advent Hymn) — A Catholic Version!
- Announcement of Easter & the Moveable Feasts • El Anuncio de la Pascua y Fiestas Movibles • 2024
- Dr. Alexis Kutarna Shares Photographs of Texas Workshop With Composer Kevin Allen
- Announcement of the Nativity of the Lord from the Roman Martyrology • Practice Video
- 1963 Photograph • Original Lyrics for Fr. Hellriegel’s “To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King”
- Message from the Vice-President!
- My Response to Dr. Weaver’s Latest Article
- ► November (27)
- Stumped by Psalms? Try This
- Requesting Our Advent Eucharistic Hymn
- PDF Download • “Eight Gregorian Psalm Tones” (Harmonized by Jeff Ostrowski)
- Four (4) Excellent Hymns for Catholic Funerals
- “An Initiation to Gregorian Chant” (Msgr. Turco)
- Seven (7) Hymn Verses for November!
- Accent and Gregorian Melody
- Worst Hymn Pairing Of All Time?
- Bearing Witness
- Jeff Ostrowski’s Performance of Plainsong Attacked as “Inartistic”
- What We See Under the Big Top
- Jeff’s Attempt at Pipe Organ “Stops”
- Pope Saint Paul VI did not outlaw the TLM
- PDF • Morley’s Choral “Warm-Up”
- (14 Examples) • Jeff Ostrowski's Artistic “Credo”
- A Classic Example of Modal Modulation
- PDF Download • “Wedding March” (For The Lazy Organist)
- Hymn • “Feast of Christ’s Kingship”
- Report • “Musical Shape of the Liturgy Conference”
- “Organ Interlude” (Dom Gregory Murray)
- November Reminder • Please help!
- 1950s Mandatory Military Service? Huh?
- “No Fourth Sunday of Advent” (EF)
- When just 13 years old, Beethoven……
- Kevin Allen … for 500 Altar Servers!
- PDF • Draft Booklet “Couture Chant” (255 Pages)
- Dissonant Chord? • (not in context)
- ► October (40)
- Cardinal Newman • “Hymn for Souls in Purgatory”
- PDF Download • “Choral Warm-Up” by Jeff Ostrowski (after Morley)
- “Voces8” (Grammy-Nominated British Vocal Ensemble) • With Kevin Allen
- PDF Download • “Hymn for the Feast of All Saints” (Released for the First Time in History!)
- Organ Improviser in the Spotlight: Wayne Warren
- “Secret Trick” of Jeff Ostrowski • Re: Singing Amen
- Now Available Online! • 1959 “Organ Accompaniment Book” (233 Pages)
- Jeff As Organist? • His Attempt…
- “Did One Man Single-Handedly Sabotage the Gregorian Restoration?” • (Part 2 of 2)
- Two Ways of Singing the Easter Sequence
- Playing Pipe Organ = Very Difficult!
- Guest Article by Mæstro Jerome Cole • Organist, Composer, and Choirmaster
- Brooklyn Writes Us — Re: “Slander” Article
- PDF • “Mass Propers in English” (113 pages)
- “Spotted” • Singaporean Sacred Sounds
- Letter from “Penelope” • (18 October 2023)
- “Breathtaking!” • Hymn for the Souls in Purgatory
- Can Nobody Help Us?
- “Is This an Error?” • The Answer Is Complicated
- Can You “Name That Hymn” (From The Middle)?
- 12 October 2023 • FEEDBACK
- Responsorial Psalm • “Eight Options”
- It’s Spooky Season! • “Six Ways To Celebrate Halloween Like A Catholic”
- Cardinal Tobin says excluding EF Catholics is “good” so long as they’re not “banished” completely
- Young Girl Imitates Jeff Ostrowski Conducting!
- “I Hate Hearing It, but I Love It?” • Honesty About Church Music (Examples Provided)
- Are We Done? • “Gregorian Chant Rhythm Wars”
- Hope For Our Church.
- Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Godspeed!” (9 Oct 2023)
- Collect Conclusions - Per Dominum &c.
- “Christ the King” is coming up…
- “Catholic Herald” Article Features Our Singing!
- Does Singing Fulfill One’s Obligation?
- PDF Dissertation • “Dom Mocquereau and Music Theory” (282 Pages)
- PDF Download • “Congregational Booklet” (Printable) for Jeff's New Mass Setting
- “Must Hymns Always Rhyme?” • (With Examples)
- “Slander!” • (Response to an Accusation)
- Palestrina Would Not Recognize This! • (Plus: Hopeful Signs)
- Interesting story about Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Vollaerts Revisited
- ► September (49)
- [Quiz] • “Do You Know Your Hymns?”
- Eight (8) Responsorial Psalm Options • On turning Missalettes into little “gods”
- Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Nuances of Nuances” (28 Sep 2023)
- William Byrd • Simple “Agnus Dei” Canon
- Active Participation or Not?
- (Not Kidding) • Does Singing for Mass Fulfill One's Obligation to Attend Mass?
- A Brief Addendum
- PDF Download • All Seven (7) Movements: “Mass in Honor of Saint Noël Chabanel”
- Composer Kevin Allen in Europe!
- “Slander!” • (Response to an Accusation We Received)
- Some Questions Answered
- Concerning Alterations to the Vatican Edition
- Introducing the CRCCM Repertoire Project
- “Everybody Loves Raymond” Actress Responds to Cardinal Dolan
- PDF Download • “Kyrie for the Ordinary Form in Honor of Saint Thomas More”
- Antiphons Vs. Hymns • A “Both/And” Church
- What Robert Did to My Graphics
- “Glory To God” • (For Choir + Congregation)
- This Sunday! • Q&A “Developing a Youth Choir Program”
- PDF Download • “Glory To God” for Congregation & Choir (Mass of Saint Noël Chabanel)
- Gregorian Chant Introit • (Sung According to the Official Rhythm of the Catholic Church)
- (Quiz) • “How Well Do You Know Your Hymns?”
- William Byrd • “Mass for Five Voices”
- Enter the Gregorian Rhythm Wars
- “Baptism” • A Unique Hymn
- Gregorian Rhythm Wars • “Mocquereau on Trial” (16 Sep 2023)
- Implementing a Private Lesson Program for Your Choir
- For the Record: “Jeff Plays Organ”
- Natália Explains: “Why You Should Care About Shared Melodies.”
- Traditional Latin Mass with Vernacular (!) Ordinary at High Mass in the 1600s
- Why Sing? • Byrd Answers!
- A Concert in Honor of William Byrd
- SEPTEMBER • Monthly Reminder
- Eucharistic Hymn by the Archbishop of Canterbury
- “Ever Ancient, Ever New” • Sacred Concert in North Florida
- “Mixing” Your Singers? • Just Do It!
- “Can No One Defend This?” • Why Everyone Should Sing From the Official Edition
- Jeff Ostrowski’s Discovery • (Does Anyone Care?)
- Can a Lens Make a Difference?
- Lack Choir Boys? • A Foolproof Way to Get Them!
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- 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 (303)
- ► 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 (29)
- (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
- (Private) • “Symposium Faculty Eyes Only”
- 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)
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- ► December (29)
- Hymns for the Holy Name of Jesus
- Start the New Year Right with a Spectacular Alleluia
- “Homily — Feast of the Holy Family, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Chasing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- PDF Download • “Midnight Mass Musical Plan” (2020)
- 23 December 2020 • A 5th? or 4th?
- PDF Download • “Creator Alme Siderum” with Organ Accompaniment
- “Improving As Musicians” • Eight Suggestions
- Hidden Gem: Alma Redemptoris Mater (Salazar)
- What's With All the Chant?
- Announcement of Easter & the Movable Feasts • 2021 • English & Spanish
- (Installment #15) “Catholic Hymnals” • William Fritz
- The First Time We've Ever Done This Correctly!
- “Blessing the Bell” • Most Rev’d Alejandro D. Aclan
- Saint Paul’s Choir School Presents “Starry Night: Christmas in Harvard Square”
- How to Help Children Match Pitch (part III)
- “Rorate Mass” (FSSP) • 12 December 2020
- “Homily — 3rd Sunday of Advent, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Safety in Music is a Pro-Life Issue
- “Martinelli's Letter” (dated 18 February 1910)
- Offertory Compared • “Ave Maria” (4th Sunday of Advent) vs. “Ave Maria” (Immaculate Conception)
- 9 December 2020 • A Cool Tradition
- Gregorian Chant • “How To Sing The Repercussion” (such as: Bistropha, Tristropha, etc.)
- How to Help Children Match Pitch (part II)
- The Prophet Baruch: Surge, Ierusalem, Look to the East!
- “Homily — 2nd Sunday of Advent, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Book Title • “English As She Is Spoke”
- (Ecuador) • Archbishop Poisoned on Good Friday
- Latin Mass Gospel Reading Video: Boost your Sunday
- ► November (35)
- How to Help Children Match Pitch (part I)
- 30 November 2020 • “Case in point”
- The “Winking” Part • Where'd Father Lasance Get It?
- A Whale of a Pulpit
- Extremely Rare! • Pages from the “Directorium Chori” (Solesmes Abbey, 1864)
- 27 November 2020 • ACCENTS
- Feast of the Holy Family • Where did it come from?
- “Homily — 1st Sunday of Advent, Year B” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Inspiration for Organ Improvisation
- St. Matthew, St. Jane, and the End of a Liturgical Year
- Resurgam and the Month of All Souls
- 20 November 2020 • Epiphany Sequence?
- PDF Download • Several Useful Plainsong Books
- 18 November 2020 • FEEDBACK
- (Installment #14) “Catholic Hymnals” • Andrea Leal
- On the Dedication of Churches
- “Alma Redemptoris Mater” • Thirteen (13) Organ Accompaniments
- 16 November 2020 • Exciting addition!
- Let’s Bring Back the Thank-You Note
- Wilbur Wright and the McCarrick Report
- Should Hymn Lyrics Be Inordinately Archaic?
- “Homily — 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- (Installment #13) “Catholic Hymnals” • Lucas Tappan
- Solemn Mass • Ruins of Saint Mary’s Cathedral (Nagasaki, 1949)
- Veterans Day: Remembering Those Who Made Our Music Possible
- Catholic Artists and “Self Hatred”
- (Installment #12) “Catholic Hymnals” • Veronica Moreno
- 6 November 2020 • FEEDBACK
- Msgr. Schmitt backs up Rev. Fortescue
- “Polyphonic Credo” during Communion?
- “Christ as Creator” • Remarkable Findings in Ancient Hymns !
- The Best We've Done?
- (Installment #11) “Catholic Hymnals” • Alfred Calabrese
- Place Me Among the Sheep, Not the Goats
- “Homily — 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- ► October (38)
- PDF Download • Vespers for the Dead
- PDF Download • Rare 1970 Document Explains “Spoken vs. Sung Propers”
- Geeky Virtual Pipe Organ Options
- “Homily for the Feast of All Saints” (November 1st) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- * Live Rec. • “Absolution of the Body” (Gregorian Chant)
- PDF Download • Beautiful Requiem Mass Image
- “New” Cracked Altar Defaces Baroque Church
- ICEL added “Died” to the Nicene Creed • (I am not kidding!)
- Quick Vocal Tip: The Yawn Breath
- “Homily for the Feast of Christ the King” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- PDF Download • Extremely Simple (Yet Gorgeous) Polyphonic Funeral Mass
- PDF Download • “Mass Propers for Weekdays, Commons, and Saints” (1,294 pages)
- Heresy du Jour? • (Orig. Published in 2019)
- 20 October 2020 • “What we can't share”
- Helping “Tone-Deaf” Men Match Pitch
- 19 October 2020 • Feast of Father Brébeuf
- Dom Pothier • “To The Eyes And To The Ears”
- Indispensable & Accessible: Fr. Samuel F. Weber Propers in English
- The “Mora Vocis” • What is that?
- 13 October 2020 • Chopin talks Bach
- PDF Download • “Taste and see the goodness of the Lord” (Responsorial Psalm)
- 12 October 2020 • True Story
- How to Stay Prayerful as a Church Musician
- “Homily for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Catholic Architecture • “Modern vs. Ancient”
- Sacred Music Boot Camp 2020
- “Arranging Polyphony for One Voice” • (Live Rec.)
- Photo • Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
- PDF Download • Communion Antiphon (Mt 16:24) with Organ Accompaniment
- (Installment #10) “Catholic Hymnals” • Chris Mueller
- “Homily for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- The Real Reason Why Some People Don't Match Pitch
- “O Sacrum Convivium” • Recorded by one person
- Here's How the Mass Will Change
- 3 October 2020 • What Kids Lack
- “Spoken vs. Sung Propers” • The Complete History
- Famous Italian Actor Regrets Aborting Son
- Devotional Music for the Feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
- ► September (41)
- “Homily for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- PDF Download • Extremely Rare! — 1966 “Book of Catholic Worship” (809 pages)
- Outdoor Music Classes? Only in 2020!
- CDW: “Let us return to the Eucharist with joy!”
- Communication • Re: Modern Catholic Hymns
- Lecture: What Happens to Us in Liturgy?
- PDF Download • Extremely Rare Sequence (Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi)
- EWTN Features Catholic Choirmaster & Composer
- 22 September 2020 • “Tears of Joy”
- “Homily for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Myth Re: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Homily • “25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A”
- The Tiniest Prayer Books: the Key of Heaven
- Arthur Friedheim, Franz Liszt's Secretary
- (Installment #9) “Catholic Hymnals” • Corrinne May
- Solesmes Publishes “Antiphonale Romanum I” for Lauds
- More on the Mystery Book
- (Installment #8) “Catholic Hymnals” • Cynthia Ostrowski
- Homily — “Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Mother” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Graduale Renovatum: New Resource Brings Chant Rhythm to Life
- 13th Anniversary of “Summorum Pontificum”
- PDF Download • “Order of the Mass without a Congregation” (1970)
- “A blast from the past”
- PDF Download • 1928 “Invitatory” (86 pages)
- (Installment #7) “Catholic Hymnals” • Richard J. Clark
- “Homily — 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Jeff Ostrowski • “Three Rules For Good Music”
- Introvert, Except at Rehearsal? You May Be an Ambivert
- Music as a Technology of the Soul
- Important Message To Fathers
- (Installment #6) “Catholic Hymnals” • Jeff Ostrowski
- “Homily for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Sir Richard Terry: Hymns, Congregational Singing, and Avoiding “Violence” to the Elders
- 3 September 2020 • Tausig, Liszt's student
- (Installment #5) “Catholic Hymnals” • Dr. Gregory Hamilton
- “That Image” from World War II • Further Questions
- WW2 post at 3:30am = 10k views?
- (Installment #4) “Catholic Hymnals” • Charles Weaver
- Holy Mass During World War II • (9 April 1944)
- PDF Download • “Communion Antiphon” (with organ accompaniment)
- “Homily — 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- ► August (41)
- (Installment #3) “Catholic Hymnals” • Keven Smith
- Bishop Sheen on Sanctifying the Moment
- “Resplendent Beyond Reckoning” • Sherborne Missal (1399AD)
- (Installment #2) “Catholic Hymnals” • Veronica Brandt
- Video Excerpt • “Fastest Organ Pedals I've Ever Seen!”
- Josef Hofmann • “Pianist Par Excellence”
- 25 August 2020 • A 20-minute Mass?
- (Installment #1) “Catholic Hymnals” • Patrick Torsell
- “Homily — 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Quick Vocal Tip: Be Breathy, but Briefly
- Huge Discovery! (Not a Joke) • Re: “Gradual Antiphons vs. Missal Antiphons”
- Homeschool Snapshots: Take 2
- “Secret Book of Happiness” • Official English Translations of the Roman Gradual
- Biography • Charles Weaver
- Clarity! • Missal vs. Gradual Text (Ordinary Form)
- JP2 said in June of 1980…
- 18 August 2020 • Fr. Fortescue wins!
- “Homily for the 12th Sunday after Pentecost” (EF) • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- Stress Relief Tip: Let Your Structure Do the Work
- Certificate in Sacred Music
- 3 September 1958 • “De musica sacra”
- 3 September 1958 • Issued by Pius XII
- “Homily — 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A” • Father Valentine Young, OFM
- 13 August 2020 • “Lenten acclamations”
- “Crown Him with Many Crowns” (Diademata) • Brébeuf Hymnal #752
- These kids are on fire! • “Victimæ Paschali Laudes” by Philippe Verdelot
- “Plainchant in Two Parts” • (Guest Article by a Julliard Faculty Member)
- Why Are You a Church Musician, Anyway?
- 10 August 2020 • FEEDBACK
- Missale Meum: Get EF Mass Texts on Your Devices
- PDF Download • “Veni Creator Spiritus” Organ Accompaniment (Each Verse Notated)
- PDF Download (2,092 pages) • “Liturgical Notes on the Roman Missal” by Archbishop Schuster
- Year of the Eucharist • Solemn Vespers with Exposition and Benediction
- Vexing? Irksome? • Thoughts On Hymnal Indexes
- Allowed or Forbidden? • Parallel Fourths in Renaissance Polyphony
- That Little Tabernacle Light
- “Serviam Scores” • Mr. Richardson has a beautiful voice!
- 4 August 2020 • FEEDBACK
- Survey Results: Music at the TLM Doesn’t Matter?
- “Gonfalon Royal” • One Of My Favorite Hymn Tunes
- 1 August 2020 • FEEDBACK
- ► July (31)
- “Stella Caeli Exstirpavit” • Gregorian Chant During Times Of Pestilence
- 8,000 entries • “Snippets Index” for New Hymnal
- Goal Met • Why We're Grateful To Our Readers
- Ubi Caritas Goes Viral: My Thoughts
- PDF Download • “Holy Week and Easter with Gregorian Chant” (797 pages)
- 22 July 2020 • Five Recent Messages
- 21 July 2020 • From a Musicology PhD…
- “Pope Pius XII Psalter” • How different was it?
- Biography • Dr. Gregory Hamilton
- The Gifts of Abel the Just
- PDF Download • “Label Your Luggage”
- PDF Download • “Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Mass”
- Wonderful emails received recently…
- Obsequies for Msgr. Georg Ratzinger (1924-2020)
- Two Fast, Easy Ways for Church Musicians to Relieve Stress
- 1,055 Images • “Paramentica Liturgical Design”
- Honesty and Integrity
- Two Settings • “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name”
- The Illusion of Permanence — an Exercise in Humility
- Featured • “To All Who Care About CCWatershed”
- Solemn Novena for Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
- Can These Youngsters Save Catholic Music?
- “Just how Tridentine are you?” • Quiz by GIA Publications
- Unslumping Yourself with the King of Instruments
- Two remarkable (radical) liturgical realities … which few realize!
- Biography • Corrinne May
- Saint Eulalia Gradual • Guest Article by Josh Carey
- EF Gospel Illustrations
- Sing Praises with Understanding: A Scriptural Approach to Musical Participation
- “Choral Singing post-COVID” • Perspectives from a Hong Kong Doctor & Chorister
- Monsignor Georg Ratzinger Has Died
- ► June (41)
- Draft Document • “Church Music Manifesto” (2020)
- Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part IV of IV)
- Chanting and Spiritual Health
- Sonata during the Gradual?
- Homeschool Snapshots: Take 1
- New Catholic Hymns: 24 Hymns for the Liturgical Year
- Sister Goodchild • “Gregorian Chant for Church and School”
- Best Practices with Current Restrictions • New Resource from Detroit
- Note from a reader (25 June 2020)
- Six Points • The Church and Patronage of the Arts
- PDF Download • “Saint Edmund Jennings Mass”
- More on the subject of “Mutual Enrichment”
- Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part III)
- Coloring Calendars - Liturgical Art
- Important • Watershed Will Never Be The Same!
- Silence and The Thoughts of His Heart
- “Society of Saint Bede” • Free Liturgical Resources
- Devotional Catholicism and the Domestic Church
- PDF Download • “Saint Anne Line Mass”
- How Good Are Your Musical Ears? • (Speedy Test)
- Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part II)
- Liturgical Handwashing
- Live Recording (42 min) • “Vespers for the Sacred Heart”
- O Sacred Heart, On Earth Thou Art An Exile’s Rest
- Recorded Music At Mass?
- Virtual Sacred Music Colloquium 2020
- PDF Download • “Saint Ralph Sherwin Mass”
- Organ Accompaniment • “Pater Noster” (in Latin)
- Positive Message from a Catholic Priest
- Why We Sing the Liturgy
- Real Life in a Large Church Choir Program (Part 1)
- A Verse for Trinity Sunday
- “Comparison” • 15 Traditional Catholic Hymnals
- Brébeuf Virtual Choir Strikes Again!
- Pentecost Melody Added
- PDF Download • 17 Organ Accompaniments for the simple “Salve Regina”
- Liturgical Challenges Presented by COVID-19 • A Triptych via Zoom
- The Art of Improvisation
- How to Get Better at Chant Without Opening Your Mouth
- This World Does Not Always Reward Virtue
- Troubleshooting Gregorian Chant
- ► May (45)
- Singing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Covid-19 • “A Word Of Encouragement”
- Broadcasting Holy Mass During Covidtide
- Arranging and Transcribing Our Way Through the Epidemic
- Returning to the Sacraments • Stories from Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
- The Fastest, Cheapest, Painfulest Way to Get a Voice Lesson
- “Discussion” • Father Guerrero’s 7th Mode Magnificat
- Are the Solesmes editions in conformity with the official edition?
- It's not too late to "Crown Mary"
- Huge Announcement • The Brébeuf Virtual Choir!
- From a Catholic priest…
- Reopening our Churches – Encouragement – Resources
- “Jesu Nostra Redemptio” • Ancient Hymn for the Ascension translated into English!
- Of Shepherds and Sheep
- New Harmonies! • “To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King”
- What to Do When Music Creeps Into Your Prayer
- Returning to the Sacraments • “Breathe Easter Now” (Hopkins)
- PDF Download • Organ Accompaniments (Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament)
- Regina Caeli: How Good do you Need to Be to Sing Polyphony?
- How to Change a Hymn Without Changing It
- Post-Pandemic Liturgy
- Can't Decide Which Hymn Tune To Use?
- Josquin’s “Ave Maria...Virgo Serena” • The Most Famous Piece Of 1502
- What Did Palestrina Look Like?
- Does Gregorian Chant ever skip a 7th?
- We love getting messages like this one…
- How Do the Greats Approach the Science of Choral Conducting?
- How to properly sing “Alleluia” in Eastertide (1962 Missal)
- Choir Roster? No. It's a Love List!
- A B C D F etc. — An Ancient “Alphabetical” Hymn
- Is Liturgy Essential?
- Wedding Homily (7 min) by Fr. Valentine Young
- Pain, Trauma, Caution in the Choir World
- Stunning Harmonies! • “Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above” (Hymn #783)
- What is the “Ordinary” of the Mass?
- Blog Contributors Speak About A “Favorite” Piece
- What Makes a Great Conductor?
- “Pange Lingua” translated into English • Hymn by Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Bring Your “Lost Motets” to Life
- Throwing Away Our Birthright of Beauty
- Unveiling the songs of hope: fr Timothy Radcliffe op
- Saints Stories from 3 Priests in Australia
- The best 5 seconds in Gregorian Chant…
- Being Too Hard On Priests?
- Biography • Daniel Tucker
- ► April (46)
- Can Sacred Music Be Saved? • (How exactly?)
- Audiation for Choristers
- For Shame! • Collegeville blog says looking at Crucifix “skirts the edge of idolatry”
- What Spilling My Coffee Taught Me About Directing My Choir
- “Virtual Mass Is Not The Same” • Sermon by Father Mark Ostrowski
- Trust the Good Shepherd
- "Ransomed" during a pandemic
- Compline in the Home - via Podcasts!
- If you are having a bad day, this is what it means
- “Hearing the Music of Heaven” • An interview with Father Dominic White OP
- Can Ordinary Form Masses Be “Enriched” By The Extraordinary Form?
- Dealing With Calumny
- Easter Chants from Fisher House
- “Christ The Lord Is Risen Today” • (Hymn #697)
- The Unintended Consequences of Live Streaming Mass
- Rehearsal • “Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest”
- From “Vexilla Christus Inclyta”
- As Seen On Facebook…
- The Offertory Antiphons of the Easter Octave
- Why are you sad, O my soul?
- Maintaining Easter Joy in a Pandemic
- A Blessing and a Curse: Digital Sheet Music
- Yikes! • More Plagiarism from Boise’s Bishop
- Biography • Keven Smith
- Repeating Repertoire? • William Fritz
- The Overtone Series (Truly) Explained
- PDF Download • “Victimae Paschali” Organ Accompaniment (Nine Versions)
- Without Sacraments • How Saint Isaac Jogues Survived
- Do Not Let Your Voice be Silenced
- Brébeuf Hymn #554 • “Victis Sibi” in English
- God will not be outdone in generosity.
- One more regrettable mistake by the Bishop of Boise, Idaho
- PDF Download • Haunting “Alleluia” for Ordinary and/or Extraordinary Form
- (2022, Revised) • Saint Vitus Choir Page
- Banning “Ad Orientem” • Six Regrettable Mistakes by the Bishop of Boise, Idaho
- CCW President on “Real Presence Radio”
- “Daily I sat in the temple, close to you…”
- This Holy Week Visit Sydney
- PDF Download • “Pre-1955 Holy Saturday” (Draft)
- Craving the Body of Christ
- Repeating Repertoire? • Andrea Leal
- Repeating Repertoire? • Father Friel
- Repeating Repertoire? • Patrick Torsell
- What a young Father Morales wrote for Charles V
- Repeating Repertoire? • Dr. Hamilton
- Hymn: “All glory, laud, and honor to Thee, Redeemer, King” (Sopr, Alto, Tenr, Bass)
- ► March (47)
- Sacred Music Symposium • “What We Avoid”
- Repeating Repertoire? • Wilfrid Jones
- Repeating Repertoire? • Veronica Brandt
- Going Beyond Archbishop Fulton Sheen's “Take”
- Repeating Repertoire? • Christopher Mueller
- “Abraham” • Guerrero Imitates His Teacher
- 8 Tips • “Improving Live Stream Audio Quality”
- Repeating Repertoire? • Richard J. Clark
- HYMN • “Vexilla Regis” (SATB setting in English)
- Repeating Repertoire? • Veronica Moreno
- “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today” (Brébeuf Hymnal, #699)
- Repeating Repertoire? • Dr. Tappan
- Too much music!
- Repeating Repertoire? • Dr. Calabrese
- Repeating Repertoire? • Jeff Ostrowski
- PDF Download • “Ad Regias Agni Dapes” (Organ Accompaniment)
- Readings & Prayers Used By My Family On Sunday…
- “Separated from the Sacraments” • Stories from Walter Ciszek, SJ
- Rehearsal Video • Breathtaking Morales “Sanctus”
- “Sharing Is Caring”
- What Frightens Me
- CDW Guidelines for Holy Week 2020
- The Fruit of Silence is Prayer
- Official Statement on Coronavirus
- A Word of Encouragement
- Eucharistic Fasting, Hunger, and Pent Up Energy
- The Ability To Say “I Don't Know”
- Disturbing Trend
- PDF Download • The Most Difficult Piece! (Sacred Music Symposium 2020)
- Video (50 seconds) • “Long Lines At California Costco”
- PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for “Audi Benigne Conditor” (Vespers Hymn for Lent)
- Stella Caeli - a hymn against pestilence
- Errors in the “Complete Works” of Father Cristóbal de Morales
- Internet Bullies
- A Hymn We're Singing This Lent—In English!
- "Let's Not" . . . a small moment of reverence
- Liturgical Custody of the Eyes
- Psalms, Psalmody, Psalmists, Psalm Singing
- Former Executive Director (USCCB Liturgy Committee) Distorts Holy Week Permitted By Pope Francis
- Father Cristóbal de Morales • “Missa Mille Regretz”
- Singing in the Papal Choir during the 16th century…
- Excerpt (November, 1545) for Choir Members at the Vatican
- PDF Download • Catholic Hymnal by the Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio (84 Pages)
- The Institution as Formator (Part II)
- Pope Pius X had been a choirmaster!
- "It's not just the singing of certain notes"
- “Stations of the Cross” • By Fulton J. Sheen
- ► February (37)
- iPhone Clip • “Sight-Reading Hosanna the First Time”
- Organ Scholarship at Christendom College
- PDF Download • “Hymnal of Christian Unity” (1964)
- Why Should You Come to the Symposium?
- Vaughan Williams' Sage Advice for Those Appointing Martin Baker's Successor
- “Notwithstanding all our troubles, we sing Mass” —1601 AD
- Exploring the 5th/6th-Century Mosaics of Ravenna
- What Kind of Interest is there in a Gregorian Chant Class?
- Beyond performing and listening
- Secret Sympathy
- Absolutely Sensational Video About The Sacred Music Symposium!
- Olivier Latry: Recital in Dallas This Sunday
- Magnificent Photograph! • Fr. Valentine With His Mother
- Choral Scholarships at Christendom College
- Imposing the Classical Style on Public Building Projects?
- New Work from Paul Jernberg
- Incredible Opportunity In Kansas City
- « Sundays after Pentecost »
- Big News! • Symposium Dates Revealed
- Septuagesima Gradual • Strange Formation on Clivis
- Youth Choristers - Formation Beyond Singing
- To Breathe or Not To Breathe
- Westminster Cathedral Choir School: Update
- “I’m hanging on every word.”—Catholic Organist Group
- When Choirs Prefer A “Real Voice” To Midi
- Short But Superb Film • “Westminster Choir Boys”
- PDF Download • “What Makes A Good Hymn?”
- 3rd edition • Saint Edmund Campion Missal
- The Institution as Formator (Part I)
- PDF Download • “Ave Maris Stella” (Organ Accompaniment)
- Could Pope St. Pius X Sing?
- Julius Bas Accompaniment
- Hitting wrong notes
- Silence
- PDF Booklet • Feast of the Purification (2 February)
- Another Purification “Mystery”…
- “Mystery” about the Purification in the Extraordinary Form
- ► January (43)
- 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
- JMO Copy (inviolable) St. Jean de Lalande Library of Rare Books
- 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!
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- Brébeuf Harmony Edition • “Splendid Beyond Words”
- PDF Download • Spectacular “Tenebrae” Booklet
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- ► March (18)
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- 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
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- The Lorica of St. Patrick
- A German Franciscan Soldier who Sang
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- 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
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- Leo XIII to St. Katharine Drexel: “What about you?”
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- ► 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
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- The Cantor and Congregational Singing
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- ► January (16)
- When Hymn Names Don’t Match
- Formed in Beauty Lectures
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- Music Leads Us to Heaven
- 2nd Sunday after Epiphany • Saint Vitus Parish (LA)
- Trappist Monks in Hong Kong Chanting
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- “Church Music Manifesto” (2019)
- Two February Workshops
- New England Catholic Choral Festival & Mass • 2019
- “How To Use The Brébeuf Hymnal” (Video)
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- 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)
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- ► 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)
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- ► 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
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- Participation Booklet (Spanish) for Extraordinary Form Baptisms
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- 22nd Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
- PDF Download • “Sanctus” (SATB) by JS Bach!
- Absolute Last Chance: Period!
- Live Recording Snippet • Vespers at Saint Vitus
- Participation Booklet for Extraordinary Form Baptisms
- Archbishop Anthony Fisher Apologizes
- Success! • Sacred Music Retreat in Ohio
- PDF Download • SATB Christmas Carol by Peter Lejeune • “Jam Désinant Suspíria”
- ► September (19)
- 19th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
- Scott Hahn: “Thomas More & John Fisher”
- 2015 Review • “American Catholic Hymnbook”
- Saint Thérèse Triduum
- Radio Interview • Óscar Romero & New Beginnings
- 18th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
- Can You Say “Theft” ??
- Ronald Knox • His Actual Voice!
- Guest Article • “Composing a Responsorial Psalm”
- Fearfully and Wonderfully Made • New Work for Trumpet and Organ
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- The Problem with the Universal Prayer of the Church
- 17th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
- 21 Thoughts • “Exterior Actions at Mass”
- A Dramatic Moment
- New Season! New Beginning!
- Masses to Begin at FSSP Parish in Philadelphia
- “The Story Of The Adoremus Hymnal”
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- ► August (19)
- New Catholic Choral School…in Detroit!
- Join a Choir! Now!
- Simple Mass Propers (1909)
- Saving the Church, One Choir at a Time
- PDF • Scottish Catholic Hymnal (453 Pages)
- New Discovery in Canada
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- 14th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
- “Vatican II Hymnal” (1974) by Terry L. Haws
- Rehearsal videos • “Gloria” by Father Victoria
- 13th Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)
- A Chinese “Ave Maria”
- PDF Download • “Leeds Catholic Hymnal” (232 pages)
- The New Spanish Missal as Opportunity
- Janet Hunt and Music of the Pipe Organ • “On a Sacred Note”
- PDF Download • “Sunday Vespers”
- Precious in the Eyes of the Lord is the Death of His Faithful One
- Video Recording • Pro-Arte Saint Louis
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- ► July (19)
- Expectations Exceeded at the Symposium!
- Remarkable Quote About Low Mass
- Puzzle • “Now Thank We All Our God”
- My Trip to Canada
- 1934 Footage • Gregorian Chant in Chicago
- “Arundel Catholic Hymns” • Hymns Chosen and Edited by the Duke of Norfolk
- Brébeuf Hymnal • “Behind the Scenes”
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- PDF Canon • “Non Nobis Domine” (William Byrd)
- Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference 2018
- Rehearsal videos • “Kyrie” by Josquin des Prez (d. 1521)
- The Sung Canon
- What Happens When A Choirmaster Gets Sad?
- (Video) • Closing Mass of Symposium 2018
- Flos Carmeli for a Carmelite Novena
- Music Conference in Rome (September 2018)
- iPhone Clip • “Sight-Reading Hymns”
- Of Estate Sales, Prayers, and Mass Attendance
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- ► June (21)
- Saint Vitus Roman Catholic Church • Los Angeles, CA
- Gregorian Impressions • Plainchant Settings for Organ
- How to be a Good Choir Member?
- (Recorded Live) • “Agnus Dei” at the Symposium
- Novena for Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
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- Sacred Music Camp in Allentown, NJ
- James David Christie • International Performer of the Year
- Raising the Musical Standards (Part 2)
- “Come Holy Ghost” • Improvisation
- Sacred Music Camp for Children in Philadelphia
- Save the World: Build More Carmels
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- “No, I was taught that in school…”
- Raising the Musical Standards (Part 1)
- The Beauty of Dance
- Sanctus & Benedictus • “Ave Maris Stella” (Victoria)
- CCW Receives Praise … on Television!
- Sacred Music Symposium (2018)
- FSSP Camp in Sydney, Australia
- “On a Sacred Note” • Catholic TV Network • 13 Part Series on Sacred Music
- ► May (20)
- Is The Brébeuf Hymnal Too Scrupulous?
- Summer Sacred Music Workshop 2018
- Can Plainsong Be Harmonized? • (Rehearsal Video)
- How Serious Are They About The Accent?
- Marian Concert: Carmelite Sisters and Credo Choir
- The Centrality of the Sign of the Cross
- Rehearsal videos • Missa “Ave Maris Stella” (Victoria)
- Benedictines in Tasmania a Year Already
- “Outer Space Hymn” (1966) • In A Catholic Hymnal
- Too Much Emphasis On Liturgy? • A Response
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- Fota XI Liturgy Conference
- Hereford Cathedral Choir to Sing at the Vatican
- Los Angeles • Audio Excerpts from Solemn Mass
- “Pater Noster” by Monsignor Jules Van Nuffel
- 11:00am Choir Page
- Saint Vitus Choir Page
- The Wethersfield Institute Chant Workshop
- “Priests of God, bless the Lord!” • Practice Video
- PDF Download • A “Bright” Eucharistic Hymn
- ► April (18)
- (Transcript) • Archbishop Sample’s Sermon from the National Shrine Solemn Pontifical Mass
- Choosing Choral Repertoire
- Yesterday’s Solemn Mass Was An Inflection Point
- This Saturday! • Solemn Pontifcal Mass in D.C.
- Directing A Choir: Are You Tough Enough?
- Opportunity to study Polyphony in San Francisco
- Spanish Missal Chants Now Available
- Listening and Mission
- Teaching Gregorian Chant to Boys with Changed Voices
- What does Cicero have to do with the Breviary?
- Photos • Two Recent Solemn Masses in Hong Kong
- Tone Quality and Your Singers
- The Turns at Benediction
- “ Dissonance? ” • Gregorian Accompaniment
- Ratzinger’s 1987 Letter to a Former Catechism Student
- “Crotalus” • How Does It Sound?
- I Was Wrong to Dread the “Pre-1955” Holy Week
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- ► March (17)
- FSSP Palm Sunday (2018) • “Pre-1955 Rubrics”
- Ratchets instead of Bells for your Electric Angelus
- PDF Download • Organ Accompaniment for “Vexilla Regis” (Hymn) by Fr. Adrian Fortescue
- Musical Resources • Holy Thursday (FSSP, 2018)
- Liturgy outside Liturgy
- Towards An Online (Modern) Palestrina Edition
- Fighting With A Bishop • Good Idea?
- The Preface of the Holy Cross
- Eight Lessons • “Make Musicians Love Working With You”
- Are Canonisations Infallible?
- A Literal Translation of the New Testament
- 4th Sunday of Lent (“Laetare Sunday”)
- When Music Encounters Religion
- PDF Download • Rare German Hymnal (879 pages)
- New Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
- 3rd Sunday of Lent (Extraordinary Form)
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- ► February (21)
- Contemporary “Stabat Mater” (SATB) • by Gustaaf Nees (d. 1965)
- “Tu Es Petrus” (Rec. 2017 Symposium)
- Build your Music Theory Skills
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- The Smoke of Satan
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- Hymn Tunes That Are Actually The Same
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- “Live Excerpts” … With One Rehearsal
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- Brave Schola Director Posts “Live” Recording 1
- Music in Catholic Schools
- “Transfigured” Young Adult Liturgy Conference
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- ► January (32)
- Sacra Liturgia 2019 in Toronto
- Cardinal Zen’s Open Letter
- Repetition at the School Mass: “Do it again!”
- PDF Download • “Agnus Dei” … for Lent
- The Hillbilly Thomists
- Can You Sing Along to Monks?
- Septuagesima Sunday (Extraordinary Form)
- FREE • Chant Conducting Seminar
- English Prayers at EF Mass • How old are they?
- Forward, Ever Forward!
- PDF Download • Dom Pothier Biography (1947)
- Dedication of the Cathedral Basilica of Mary, Queen of the World
- PDF • “Hosanna” Catholic Hymnal (285 Pages)
- Two Choral Works and Propers for Lent
- 3rd Sunday after Epiphany (Extraordinary Form)
- Spanish Subtitles Added • Absolutely Superb!
- What If...
- Revealed • Sacred Music Symposium Dates!
- Should Liturgy Be Practical?
- St. Therese Carmelite School • Bright Ray Of Hope!
- Msgr. Michael F. Groden’s Contribution to Sacred Music
- PDF Download • Easy Hymn with Melody in Tenor
- Don’ts for Choirmasters (Part 2)
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- Of the Father's Love Begotten...
- [español] Your Christmas Present
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- Midnight Mass (4th Sunday of December)
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- Six Videos • Gregorian Chant (2017)
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- PDF Download • Kyrie “O Magnum Mysterium”
- How Should Renaissance Music Be Sung?
- Gray Book for Baptism of Children Approved
- Not That Gaudete
- Discouragement and Hope
- 3rd Sunday of Advent (3rd of December)
- Video • A Chinese Offertory Hymn
- PDF Download • “Rorate Mass” (13 pages) —Dec 2017
- Latin Mass Youth Choir…in Las Vegas!
- Advent Piece for 2 Voices
- Knowledge of the Infant Lord
- Online Advent Calendars 2017
- PDF Download • Immac. Conception Booklet
- “Creator Alme Siderum” (Guerrero)
- Quickest Psalm Tone Ever Created
- Holy Purity & Anger
- Rorate Caeli • “Very Ancient Catholic Song”
- 2nd Sunday of Advent (2nd of December)
- Tantum Ergo Comically Misunderstood in Italian
- 360º Footage of Vespers • How cool is this?
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- ► November (32)
- PDF Download • “How To Serve Mass” (1651)
- Msgr. Knox • “Ten Commandments” for Crime Stories
- 7 Rules • “Your Family and Adventide”
- PBS • “Gregorian Chant at the Seminary”
- 40% savings!
- PDF Download • “Evening Masses and Days of Obligation” (58 pages)
- Sing Salve Regina in Your Rosary
- Final Sunday after Pentecost (4th in November)
- “Simultaneous Fulfillment” of Mass Obligation?
- Unapologetically Roman Catholic in New York City
- Arvo Pärt received the Ratzinger Prize
- “Meet Me In St. Louis”
- Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua…
- PDF Download • Authentic Irish Hymnal (164 pages)
- Choir Members Photograph
- “23rd” {repeat} Sunday after Pentecost (3rd in November)
- A Hymn That Just Keeps Popping Up
- The Man Who Thrice Rejected Knighthood
- SATB “Alleluia” (Fr. Morales) • for both OF and EF
- Music and Evangelization
- Fulton J. Sheen • “Hints On Public Speaking”
- 23rd Sunday after Pentecost (2nd in November)
- Image • Francisco Guerrero (d. 1599)
- Vox Antiqua’s Debut
- The Real Reason We Sing
- New English Hymnal • Voice-Leading
- Archbishop Sheen Played The Organ!
- 6 Suggestions • “Promoting The Latin Mass”
- Prayers of Preparation and Farewell
- Never Print With Adobe Acrobat
- PDF Download • All Souls Day
- Video • My New Project
- ► October (32)
- Brave Director Posts “Live” Recording
- Hymn by Professor at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary
- Powerful & Thought-Provoking
- PDF Download • Congregational “Dies Irae”
- All Saints and the Extraordinary Form of the Mass
- A Requiem on All Souls Day at St. Patrick's Cathedral
- Christ The King Sunday (5th in October)
- Josquin Des Prez Vandalized Stuff (!)
- Singing with Peter Philips
- “Why Sacred Music Hasn’t Been Killed” [Six Reasons]
- The Spirit of All Souls’ Day
- [299 pages] • Simple Polyphony For Choirs
- January 7-12 • Mahrt, Weber, and Buchholz!
- Sensational Testimony • On Our Feastday!
- 20th Sunday after Pentecost (4th in October)
- PDF Download • Rare German Hymnal
- Video • “Subveníte Sancti Dei” (Requiem)
- 6th-Century Icon: God of Mercy and Justice
- Christus Vincit - Christ Conquers
- 19th Sunday after Pentecost (3rd in October)
- Saturday! • Bishop Serratelli to offer Solemn EF Mass
- The Problem of Acedia
- PDF Download • Responsorial Psalms (502 Pages)
- In the Beauty of Holiness: Music and the Transcendent
- EF Introit for this coming Sunday: “Da Pacem”
- Three Entrance Antiphons for the Celebration of Marriage
- 18th Sunday after Pentecost (2nd in October)
- A Liturgical Tragedy
- Superlative Way To Explain Polyphony
- Agnus Dei • “Missa Mille Regretz” by Fr. Cristóbal de Morales (d. 1553)
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- ► September (31)
- Corda Pia - A Franciscan Hymn
- Church Music Dubia Remain Unanswered
- Video • All Priests Should Learn Traditional Latin Mass
- Translations By Non-Catholics In A Catholic Hymnal?
- Liturgical Education
- Album: Sacred Treasures of England
- How Much Latin Do You Need?
- Chants • Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (October 7th)
- The New Way of the “Sistina”
- PDF Download • “Missal for the Laity” (1846)
- 16th Sunday after Pentecost (4th in September)
- PDF Download • “Lauda Sion” Hymnal (1886)
- Five Ways To Make Dogma “Live Loudly Within You”
- Two Transatlantic Choir Tours
- Catena Legionis in Gregorian Chant
- “O Sanctissima” • SATB Contemporary Setting!
- 15th Sunday after Pentecost (3rd in September)
- Origins of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
- Does Watershed Make A Difference?
- Seven Observations About The Latin Mass
- Art of the Beautiful Lecture Series 2017-2018
- The Place of Pews in the Church
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- Saint Paul’s Choir School • New CD with AimHigher Recordings/Sony Classical
- 14th Sunday after Pentecost (2nd in September)
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- Sacred Music Workshop • Allentown, NJ
- Video • Rehearsal Excerpt with Kevin Allen
- Arbeit Macht Frei, or Ora et Labora
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- 13th Sunday after Pentecost (1st in September)
- Thoughts That Enter A Choirmaster’s Mind
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- Very Great Mischiefs Which Arise From The Use Of Polyphony By Religious Orders (1610)
- Musical Resources • 12th Sunday after Pentecost
- Volunteer Choirs • Rehearsal “Tricks”
- Ministry of Consolation • A Case for Congregational Singing at Funerals
- What Do Catholic Teenagers Sing?
- Musical Resources • 11th Sunday after Pentecost 1
- PDF Download • “O Esca Viatorum”
- Ordo Missæ from “People’s Mass Book” (1964)
- Tenth Anniversary Celebration • “Summorum Pontificum”
- “That’s not Eucharistic” • Why We Sing the Communion Antiphons
- Musical Resources • 10th Sunday after Pentecost 1
- Learn From Children Choristers
- Fr. Patrick T. Brannan, SJ • My Tribute
- PDF Download • “Hymns Ancient & Modern”
- The Scandal and Allure of the Priesthood
- Telephone Conversation w/ Faculty
- “Chanted Angelus” • Where does it come from?
- Chants for the Feast of the Transfiguration
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- Major Typo • This Sunday's Introit
- Pastoral Care of Persons with Disabilites
- The “Charism” of Saying “No”
- How Is The “Kiss of Peace” Done Properly?
- Musical Resources • 8th Sunday after Pentecost
- Seven Rules for Church Music (Sir Richard Terry)
- Video • FSSP Altar Server Training Camp
- What really happened at the Convocation of Catholic Leaders
- “Tu Es Petrus” • Commissioned for the Symposium
- Seven Rules for Writing Sermons
- Recording • Choral Mattins with John Rutter
- “Mode 4” • How To Teach Your Choir
- Palestrina and the Perfecting of the Medieval Ideal of Music as Rational • (Part 3 of 3)
- Video • Wilko Brouwers
- Organ Improvisation • Stupefyingly Awesome!
- Carmel 1
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- Benedict XVI’s Message At Cardinal Meisner’s Funeral
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- Singing with John Rutter
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- PDF Download • (2,292 Pages) Choral Music in Latin & English by Richard Rice
- JPII: “The Roman Church Has Special Obligations to Latin”
- Symposium 2017 Was A Spectacular Success!
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- Strong with God's Strength 1
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- Triumph Beyond Belief … Beyond Imagination
- Composition with Pencil & Paper or Computer Software?
- “Do not let anyone make you feel discouraged.”
- Holy Week Bulletin from 1943
- Jaw-Dropping Kyrie (SATB) by Guerrero
- Silence in the Liturgy
- Wearing the Veil at Ordinary Form Masses?
- Forming the Next Generation of Church Musicians
- Nothing More Corny Than This
- First Solemn Mass • Fr. Joseph Favole, FSSP
- Liturgical Reflections of a Papal Master of Ceremonies
- Benedictus has been posted!
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- Live Recording from Macau Cathedral
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- Psalm Tones Beyond A Doubt
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- Horrible Hymn Rhymes
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- An Unpleasant Task
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- New Compositions Worthy Of Your Attention
- Women Who Wear The Mantilla In Church
- Archbishop Sheen on Liturgy & Plainchant Choirs
- Rehearsal Videos • “Ave Sacer Christi Sanguis”
- Rehearsal Videos • Guerrero “Agnus Dei” (SSATB)
- Recruiting and Auditioning Choristers
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- Podcast on Sacred Music
- Ten “Ave Maria” Settings from Different Lands
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- May Is Dedicated To Mary
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- Guerrero's Gloria from “Missa Iste Sanctus”
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- Masterful “Salve Regina” by 17th-Century Portuguese Composer
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- Sing everyday! Regina Caeli!
- The Older I Get…
- Is This Any Way to Pray at Mass?
- 2nd Macau International Choir Festival
- Take 2 Voice Lessons and Call Me in the Morning
- Brace Yourself • “Raw” Recordings from Solemn Mass
- PDF Download • “Compline for Sunday”
- Nine Questions About The Latin Mass You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask
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- Musical Resources • “Quasimodo Sunday”
- Patterns in the Easter Sequence
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- Introducing the Wethersfield Institute Chant Workshop
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- Descent into Hell and The Greatest Act of Love
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- PDF Download • Booklet for Congregation
- Square Note App
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- 33 Days to Marian Consecration
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- ► October (48)
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- Understanding
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- Showing Off During Mass
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- PDF Download: Dominican Breviary From 1967
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- PDF Download: Hymns of the Dominican Missal & Breviary • Fr. Aquinas Byrnes (1943)
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- "The Experience After The Council Was So Strong And In Some Cases Violent…" —Cardinal Burke
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- What They Didn't Tell You About Psalm Tone VIII
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- Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Advent
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- ► November (40)
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- Advent Meditation
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- VIDEO • "Why Choralife Is Special"
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- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #60
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- ► October (47)
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- Full Text: Cardinal Pell Sermon • 24 October 2014
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- In Defense of the Organ Postlude
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- "Music Of An Altogether Profane And Worldy Character Is Unworthy For Church" —Bugnini
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- Pope Pius XII's First Communion Day
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- VIDEO • Am I A Disease?
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- Organists: Know Thy Sheep!
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- Spectacular Video: Porfiri Conducts Requiem For Parents In China
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- When Disobedience Is Not Only Good, But Necessary!
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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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- Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 7
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- Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 4
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- Homily: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
- Colloquium Update IV
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- Colloquium Update II
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- ► June (51)
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- Homily: Solemnity of Saints Peter & Paul
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- Homily: 5th Sunday of Easter (Year A)
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- How To Sing The Gregorian Alleluia
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- When will there be a new Lectionary for Catholics in the United States?
- Homily: 4th Sunday of Easter (Year A)
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- The Pipe Organ and Propers Flourish with Vexo and Weismann
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- Homily: 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy)
- The Mercy of God Makes Saints
- Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II
- The Thoughtful Theologian reflects on the canonisations of 27 April 2014
- PREVIEW - Mass in Honor of Pope Saint John Paul II
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- VIDEO • Explaining the St. Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, & Gradual
- More unites us than divides us!
- Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907): Catholic, Addict, Poet
- Book Review: Killing Jesus
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- Free PDF Download: The Fulton J. Sheen Sunday Missal (1961)
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- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #52
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- Homily: 5th Sunday of Lent (Year A)
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- Why We Need the Greatest Art in Catholic Worship
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- Audrey Hepburn, Fulton J. Sheen, & Church Singers Who Can't Read Music
- Saints Who Were Artists
- Homily: 4th Sunday of Lent (Year A)
- Learning the Latin of the Pater Noster
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- "The Most Beautiful Thing This Side Of Heaven"
- Jubilee Museum Sacred Art Biennial 2014
- What did Pope John Paul II think of the Cappa Magna?
- Homily: 3rd Sunday of Lent (Year A)
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- Catholic Identity Crisis: Who Are We? What Do We Believe? How Should We Live?
- Why Do Priests Care So Much For The Liturgy and Sacred Music?
- "Anticipated" Mass or "Vigil" Mass on Saturday Night?
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #51
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- Homily: 2nd Sunday of Lent (Year A)
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- Peter Kwasniewski: Sacred Choral Works
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- Homily: 1st Sunday of Lent (Year A)
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- Misereris omnium | Ash Wednesday Introit
- Reflection on the Blessing of the Ashes
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- St. Therese on Beauty
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- "Beauty" by Most Rev. James D. Conley (Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska)
- Nothing Ordinary About It: The Mass Proper as Early Music Jigsaw Puzzle
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #46
- Reason #6634 "Sing To The Lord" Was Not Submitted To Rome For Approval
- "The Church has been called to move on." — GIA's Worship IV Hymnal
- Impatiently Awaiting the Publication of the English Translation of von Hildebrand's Aesthetics
- Francis Clashes With Former Head Of Liturgical Institute
- Tallis Scholars Live
- Florida Priest Named Head Of USCCB Divine Worship Secretariat
- Mode 3 Antiphon for the party season
- “Pius X Hymnal” (1953) by Ted Marier … free online!
- Are You a Servant Leader?
- Backyard Studies In Proportion
- Cardinal Burke Talks About The "Francis Effect" And Other Items
- 30 January Wedding • Call Time = 10:00am
- General and Particular Examen
- Video Interview • Msgr. Georg Ratzinger About His Brother, Pope Benedict XVI
- Would You Like Some Cheese with that Whine?
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #45
- "A Catholic Life" reviews the Campion Hymnal
- What Exactly Is "Uninspired" Church Music?
- The Greatest Catholic Painter You've Never Heard Of
- Nature's Solitary Boast
- A recent picture of our son
- Is It An Obligation?
- Chris Mueller's Unique Voice in the Propers
- "Traditional Liturgy Flourishing in the Bible Belt"
- Recovering the Greatness of the Roman Rite
- 1934 “Antiphonale Monasticum” (Solesmes Abbey) • Free PDF Download!
- Text matters
- Dom Gajard on Vernacular Adaptations & Pius XII Psalter
- Francis on Benedict's "Enlightened Conscience"
- The G.I.R.M. Mentions "Hymnus" Only Once …
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #44
- Enough is Enough!
- How "Catholic" Is Congregational Singing?
- Chant Behind Bars
- ► November (51)
- Trimmings on Advent
- Uh Oh … How do you spell "Ressurection" ?
- A Challenge for the “Big Three” -- Is there a Market for the Propers?
- Spiritual Reading
- Deo Gratias
- With Regard to the New Document by Francis: "Evangelii Gaudium"
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #43
- Hans Memling's Masterpiece: The Last Judgment
- A Simple Plan To Improve Music At Mass
- A Chart That Says It All …
- Traditional Latin Hymnal "Facts Sheet"
- Official Lenten Acclamations In Latin & English
- The Lord as “Dominus”
- What passion cannot music raise and quell!
- Saint Cecilia and Why the Word is Preeminent
- Is the Mass “Just” the Mass?
- Royal Stumbling Blocks
- Rory Cooney Needs “Healing” From Pope Benedict's Liturgical Reforms
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #42
- St. Catherine of Alexandria, November 25th
- "Look Beyond The Bread You Eat" (Part 2)
- "Look Beyond The Bread You Eat" (Part 1)
- Must Art Be Permanent?
- The Politics of Sacred Music
- A Dream Come True: 1965 Missal Online!
- A Sober Assessment of Liturgical Reform
- Kevin Allen Concert — Tomorrow Night!
- 13th Century Sacred Art Class
- More Thoughts On The 3-Year Lectionary …
- Gratefulness
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #41
- Cardinals Who Don't Know Latin
- The Archer Loves The Arrow And The Bow
- Funerals and Last Things
- Two Upcoming Lectures on Sacred Art
- When Rome Gets It Wrong
- Liturgica Website Reprints "Rituale Romanum"
- The Fear of the Lord
- Feast of St. Cecilia – November 22nd
- Now Available! Online Latin Lectionary For Masses In The Ordinary Form
- Juggling Holy Days of Obligation
- "For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours"
- Jesuit Martyrs of North America by John A. O'Brien
- What's So Great About The Mass Propers?
- Black Vestments & Wisdom From Wives
- The Ordinariness of White
- Peculiar Altar Decorations
- Tonight, pray Compline for the Holy Souls
- Pope Francis Celebrates Mass "Ad Orientem"
- "In Medio Ecclesiae" Album Release
- Sainthood May Sound Crazy
- ► October (64)
- Incarnation and Divinization
- The Informed Aesthetic
- Definition Of Liturgical “Piccoluomini” ?
- National Catholic Register Mentions Watershed Hymnal
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #40
- Fr. Jeffrey Keyes Featured In Regina Magazine
- At Mass This Sunday …
- REMINDER: Upcoming Holy Day of Obligation
- What Do We Think Of Cell Phones At Mass?
- A Culture Obsessed With Sensationalism
- Gerard Manley Hopkins & Beauty
- Who Likes to be “Pruned”?
- How Bad Was It?
- Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman
- On Aweful Ambos and Lilliputian Lecterns
- Details About Sung Masses In "The Old Days"
- Organ Accompaniments to Simple Gregorian Chants
- Precious Rehearsal Time
- The Secret "Mora Vocis" of the Vatican Edition
- Concerning Proofreading And Capitalization
- Does The Vatican II Lectionary Distort Scripture?
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #39
- Alfons Cardinal Stickler, Peritus during Vatican II
- Bishop Carroll and Vernacular in the Liturgy c. 1787
- Jimmy Stewart … and Church Music Regulations?
- What to Do with the Prayer of the Faithful
- St Teresa's Dad and Standards
- Composing Heals a Heavy Heart
- Why Are We Bored At Mass?
- Patron Saint of Artists
- The Two Churches: Which One Do You Belong To?
- Interesting Catholic Websites
- Six Girls In High School … Sensational New CD!
- Celebrating the Golden Jubilee of ICEL in Rome
- Noise Unto the Lord
- Beautiful Vestments Vs. Ugly Vestments
- Catholic Composer Brian J. Nelson To Appear On EWTN
- Replacing the Entrance Chant With A Hymn Or Song?
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #38
- Why Some Older Priests Hate Liturgy
- True Liturgical Abuse … And Rex Harrison
- Gregorian Chant Chironomy Video
- Aparecida
- Jump start your rehearsal
- “Requiem pour une américaine à Paris” on “Sounds from the Spires”
- Addams Family Theme Song … At Mass?
- 1945 Vernacular Mass Card (German)
- “Let My Prayer Rise Like Incense”
- Ron Paul & Pope Francis
- Bishop Dominique Rey (Fréjus-Toulon) visits Texas
- Laws of life
- "It wasn’t supposed to happen this way."
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #37
- Bugnini: the word Alleluia is a “meaningless sound”
- Pope Francis in Context
- Pedagogy, propers and psalm tones
- Stress, Low Pay, and ‘That Finger of Jesus’
- The Blessing of Animals
- Catholicism, the Persecuted Religion
- Bishop René H. Gracida • Golden Jubilee Homily
- Impressive New Hymnal for the Divine Office
- A Word On The Pope's Interview …
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #36
- Msgr. Schuler Strikes Again!
- ► September (53)
- Cristóbal de Morales • Agnus Dei "B"
- Faith Of Our Fathers (Movie)
- Holy Michael Archangel
- Pope Francis Leads Outside of Our Comfort Zone
- Which Way Does Your Priest Face For The Prayer After Communion?
- More On "Mass Facing The People"
- Subdeacon's Role In The Ordinary Form Mass
- A Must See Video About Catholic Nuns!
- The Grand Debate Over Music and Morals
- The Prayers of Children
- The Extraordinary Form Is Centered On Christ
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #35
- The Popes And Bishop René H. Gracida
- Don't You Hate It?
- "And I Will Raise You Up" — Voice Of God Songs During Mass
- Raymond Cardinal Leo Burke Interview
- No Salvation From Decrees (3 of 3)
- Nine Images • The Campion Missal & Hymnal
- New Testament Hymns
- The Pope's interview, context and Latin.
- Fringe Fest
- Inviolable Refuge
- A Beautiful Quote By Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
- The Sexual Rhythm of Rock Music (2 of 2)
- "Adoremus In Æternum" … Heretical?
- Sacramental Grace and Intentional Discipleship
- Catholic Line Art, Black and White • Installment #34
- No Salvation From Decrees (2 of 3)
- Jeb Bush And The Sacred Liturgy
- Serious about Sacred Music
- Singing the Divine Office before and after Mass
- It’s No Fluke
- The Sexual Rhythm of Rock Music (1 of 2)
- Fr. Godfrey Diekmann "Foaming At The Mouth"
- If the Shoe Fits
- In Paradisum | Pray for Peace
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- ► December (55)
