Organist and Choirmaster (Birmingham Oratory)
You simply must play this chord!
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Low Mass Vernacular Hymns
Documentation • “In the Olden Days, Was Vernacular Sung During Liturgical Services?”
Including a splendid harmonization of “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.”
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PDF Download • “Freiburg Cathedral Hymnal” (Organ Accompaniment) — 308 Pages!
The most comprehensive German hymnal ever printed? Well, this masterpiece by Monsignor Stemmer is certainly in the top five!
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“Communion Service” for the Extraordinary Form?
This statement by the “Una Voce” president strikes me as inaccurate.
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PDF Download • Three Myths About Hymns
Did you know Catholics began translating hymns from Latin into the vernacular about 400 years before the Protestant Revolution?
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Re: “Christ the King Hymnal” (Imprimatur, 1954)
Venerable Pope Pius XII explicitly allowed vernacular hymns during High Mass in 1958.
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Live Recording • “Jesus My Lord, My God, My All”
Vernacular hymns at Communion during EF High Mass—your thoughts?
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A Traditional—But Bizarre!—Way To Assist At Mass
Just because I’m aware of something that happened in the past doesn’t mean I endorse it.
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PDF Download • Mass Hymns by Fr. Seed, SJ (1906)
How utterly strange to see such items!
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PDF Download • “Pope Pius XII Hymnal” (1959)
Were you shocked to see the Pius XII Hymnal assigning vernacular hymns to different parts of the Mass?
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Catholic Hymns Before Vatican II Will Shock You!
In spite of what you may have read online, hymns in English were often sung during Low Mass.
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PDF Downloads • Vernacular Mass Settings Published During The 1960s
If they were set upon avoiding the word “men,” I wish ICEL would have done something like “peace on earth to *those* of good will.”
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Fascinating Videos From 1958 • Mass Sung In English!
A “Dialogue” Low Mass with singing (c. 1958) by choristers of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
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PDF Download: Rare Hymnal By Boston’s Archbishop
Can you imagine singing all those vernacular hymns while Mass is happening?
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“As you might imagine, it was a disaster.”
“While most worshipers were stumbling through the Introit or Collect, a few fluent in Latin would be loudly racing through the prayers.”
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