SATB Hymns • “Consors Paterni Luminis” (Translated to English)
Brave choir director posts *live* recording by a volunteer choir!
Affordable Hymnal for Catholic Parishes
Question & Answer Box • “Which Tune Is This?”
Including a live recording of a hymn about a donkey. (Not kidding!)
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
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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
How Well Did Your Parents Know The Mass?
PDF Download: Order of Mass (Latin & English) printed in THE CROWN HYMNAL of 1911.
PDF Download: Hymns of the Dominican Missal & Breviary • Fr. Aquinas Byrnes (1943)
Containing literal and poetic translations, author biographies, meter explanations, and much more!
VIDEO • Explaining the St. Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, & Gradual
Approved by the USCCB — 2014 Imprimatur from Bishop Slattery of Tulsa.