Question & Answer Box • “Which Tune Is This?”
Including a live recording of a hymn about a donkey. (Not kidding!)
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Affordable Hymnal for Catholic Parishes
PDF Download • Extremely Rare! — 1966 “Book of Catholic Worship” (809 pages)
Do you recognize where these pages were stolen from in 1966, when they hoped nobody would notice?
8,000 entries • “Snippets Index” for New Hymnal
(Be patient while it loads) —Easy to use, fully complete; what more could you ask?
“Comparison” • 15 Traditional Catholic Hymnals
Covid-19 has forced many parishes to remove all hymnals from their pews: A perfect opportunity for change!
“Christ The Lord Is Risen Today” • (Hymn #697)
…including several captivating attempts to translate “Victimae Paschali Laudes.”
What Makes A “Catholic” Hymnal?
I find the following pairings reprehensible…
When Hymn Names Don’t Match
I submit to you that calling the same tune by multiple names in the same hymnal is unacceptable.
“Mister Eye” • Do You Mind Him?
What do you think of “eye rhymes” in hymnody?
PDF Download • “Pope Pius XII Hymnal” (1959)
Very few people have a copy of this incredibly rare Catholic hymnal.
Rorate Caeli • “Very Ancient Catholic Song”
This Catholic hymnal was written by a priest named “Police.” (not kidding)
Translations By Non-Catholics In A Catholic Hymnal?
The fear was that Protestant translators might distort the theology contained in the ancient Catholic hymns…
The “Long & Short” of Latin Hymns
Such underlay would be considered loathsome by composers like Guerrero. Indeed, it’s an impossibility!
SUPPORTING MATERIALS • Jogues Missal
Never purchase another Missalette: Daily Companion approved by the USCCB!
PDF Download • “The Parish Hymnal” (1957)
“The origins of some are not known due to the long and nearly untraceable popular usage they have enjoyed.” —Gregorian Institute
PDF Download: Saint Rose Hymnal (1938)
“It contains about two hundred hymns—all from approved sources—and covers every phase of Catholic devotion.” —Foreword by the Bishop of La Crosse
PDF Download: Hymns of the Dominican Missal & Breviary • Fr. Aquinas Byrnes (1943)
Containing literal and poetic translations, author biographies, meter explanations, and much more!
How Well Did Your Parents Know The Mass?
PDF Download: Order of Mass (Latin & English) printed in THE CROWN HYMNAL of 1911.
VIDEO • Explaining the St. Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, & Gradual
Approved by the USCCB — 2014 Imprimatur from Bishop Slattery of Tulsa.