Report • “Musical Shape of the Liturgy Conference”
This week I attended part of an excellent academic conference in honor of William Mahrt.
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
This week I attended part of an excellent academic conference in honor of William Mahrt.
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.
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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.
Sacred Music Helped to Transform Tauron Arena Kraków into a House of Prayer
If you had the opportunity to add more festive music to selected feasts in the liturgical year, to which would you give preference?
As musicians, what sustains us? Certainly, good music is a requirement. Not just good music, but beauty itself.
“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
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.
Impromptu Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Members of the Pontifical “Sistine” Choir
One of the most painful spiritual experiences many Catholics suffer is the closure of their parish.
Saint John Paul calls artists to a great responsibility–but also gives a warning.
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We’re under tremendous pressure to transfer our website to a “subscription model.”
We don’t want to do this. We believe our website should remain free to all. It’s annoying to have to search for login credentials (e.g. if you’re away from your desk).
Our president has written the following letter:
* Thirteen Men & Coins (Holy Thursday Appeal)
Traditionally on Holy Thursday, the priest washed the feet of thirteen men. Theologians held various opinions regarding whom the “13th man” represented. Before the liturgical changes of Pope Pius XII (which changed the number from thirteen to twelve), the priest washed each man’s feet, kissed his foot, and gave him a coin.
This “coin” business seems providential—inasmuch as our appeal begins on Holy Thursday this year.
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