Holy Week Chants • Clergy Training
An introduction to the English chants of Holy Week for clergy
“What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too…” Pope Benedict XVI (7 July 2007)
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The USCCB has provided freely downloadable versions of the musical settings of these newly translated texts.
Free Download of two sets of accompaniments for chants of the new Misal Romano, Tercera Edición.
A collection of fine resources are available from the Domenico Zipoli Institute
The priest’s musical role is enormously influential. This can not be emphasized enough.
Introducing a Five-Year Plan for the Future of Sacred Music in the Diocese of Marquette
Silence is one of the most important sounds of the liturgy.
If the ICEL chants (or another Gregorian setting) are used at all the masses in a parish, it develops unity. It also helps a parish refrain from being multiple communities under the same roof.
Once the mass began, the children began singing the Gregorian Introit, and fifteen thousand young people immediately stilled to complete silence.
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