Holy Week Chants • Clergy Training
An introduction to the English chants of Holy Week for clergy
“If we do not love those whom we see, how can we love God, Whom we do not see?” Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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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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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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