Report • “Musical Shape of the Liturgy Conference”
This week I attended part of an excellent academic conference in honor of William Mahrt.
Beauty in the Catholic Liturgy
Start the New Year Right with a Spectacular Alleluia
If you attend the Extraordinary Form, the Alleluia for the Octave of the Nativity will enable you to start the New Year with a bang.
In Which a Neo-Pagan Converts
I could feel that this Glory was immense, and mysterious, and real. But I could not quite grasp what that meant for me or what I should even do about it.
Should Liturgy Be Practical?
A Thought from G.K. Chesterton
Turning Off the Air Conditioning
Taking Advantage of the Natural Beauty that Surrounds Us
World Youth Day Krakow: Music Recordings
Seventeen (17) Tracks Now Available on iTunes
A Different Kind of World Youth Day
Sacred Music Helped to Transform Tauron Arena Kraków into a House of Prayer
Which Masses Would You Choose?
If you had the opportunity to add more festive music to selected feasts in the liturgical year, to which would you give preference?
Repetition in the Roman Missal
A Literary Approach in an Adoremus Bulletin Article
As church musicians, what sustains us?
As musicians, what sustains us? Certainly, good music is a requirement. Not just good music, but beauty itself.
Dancing on the Edge with Truth and Beauty
“I encourage you to make music at the highest levels possible in your parishes. Our people deserve it and our God is worthy of the highest forms of praise.” — John Romeri
Pope Francis and “recovering the allure of beauty”
If the priest is “excessively” focused on the rubrics “…I do not enter into the mystery” “…if I am a showman, the protagonist” of the Mass, “then I do not enter into the mystery” either.
Praise of God Demands Song
Impromptu Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Members of the Pontifical “Sistine” Choir
The Death of a Parish | A Promise of New Life?
One of the most painful spiritual experiences many Catholics suffer is the closure of their parish.
Beauty and Liturgy | Pope Saint John Paul II’s Letter to Artists
Saint John Paul calls artists to a great responsibility–but also gives a warning.