Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast
Dedicated to exploring the teaching and vision of the Church on the topic of liturgical music
Archbishop Alexander K Sample
Just Released! • 2019 Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music (Archbishop Sample)
“Every pastor and music director has a serious responsibility to read and become familiar with the ‘Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy…” —Archbishop Sample
Portland Publishes an “Archdiocesan Liturgical Handbook”
New publication from Archbishop Sample’s Office of Divine Worship
Yesterday’s Solemn Mass Was An Inflection Point
Consider three (3) clerics who took part in this Solemn Mass at the National Shrine
Video • All Priests Should Learn Traditional Latin Mass
An interview with Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland, Oregon.
Sacra Liturgia USA 2015
An International Conference on Liturgical Formation in Light of the New Evangelization
Archbishop Sample’s Letter On Sacred Music (8 of 8)
Eagerly awaiting a Pastoral Letter on Sacred Art in Divine Worship.
Archbishop Sample’s Letter On Sacred Music (7 of 8)
May the Archbishop’s reflections & exhortations bear fruit in practical renewal!
Archbishop Sample’s Letter on Sacred Music (5 of 8)
The biggest problem in Roman Catholic liturgical music is the prevailing misunderstanding of its very purpose.
Archbishop Sample’s Letter On Sacred Music (4 of 8)
“Everything in God’s good creation is hierarchically ordered, and the virtue of each part is to belong to the whole in the right way…”
Archbishop Sample’s Letter On Sacred Music (3 of 8)
We need to avoid profanity “not only in itself, but in the manner in which it is presented by those who execute it.”
Archbishop Sample’s Letter On Sacred Music (2 of 8)
Most bishops will talk about everything from global warming to the latest cure for cholesterol, but they leave the issue of liturgical music to priests who think that saving people means dying with them…
Archbishop Sample’s Letter On Sacred Music (1 of 8)
We’ve teamed up to create an 8-part series on Archbishop Sample’s momentous 2013 letter. Today, Jeff Ostrowski introduces the series.
Alexander K. Sample, Archbishop of Portland
“The GLORIA of the Mass set to a Polka beat or in the style of rock music is not sacred music.” — Most Reverend Alexander Sample, Archbishop of Portland
First Impressions of Bishop Sample’s Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music
A bishop issues diocesan-wide directives on the role of music in the liturgy. A look at some of the more noteworthy instructions.