PDF Download • “O Salutaris” (Modern Setting)
If there’s a more beautiful setting of this text, I don’t know what it could be.
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
If there’s a more beautiful setting of this text, I don’t know what it could be.
The choir director’s vocation is chock-full of difficulties.
Readers already realize that seventeen (17) splendid organ accompaniments for the simple “Salve Regina” can be freely and conveniently downloaded here. But what about the solemn tone for the “Salve Regina”—has anyone composed an organ accompaniment for that? Yes, Canon Jules Van Nuffel has composed one for the solemn version.
Throughout my career, I have tried to follow the advice Cardinal Mercier gave the young Fulton J. Sheen.
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Can Gregorian Chant be harmonized? Does it work? Monsignor Jules Vyverman demonstrates for us!
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Including a video demonstration: “What makes polyphony so beautiful?”
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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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